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Innovations in Scholarly Assessment: Research Information Management Systems

Learn about Symplectic Elements, a Research Information Management system enabling universities to streamline data collection and verification across various sources. Explore evolving bibliographic data standards, impact assessment, and research output management challenges. Discover tools for measuring influence, data exchange standards, and future considerations in the academic research landscape.

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Innovations in Scholarly Assessment: Research Information Management Systems

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  1. Research Information Management Systems Scholarly Assessment in Transition Educause West/Southwest Online Conference Jeremy McLaughlin Director of Sales, North America Symplectic Ltd. Jeremy.mclaughlin@symplectic.co.uk

  2. Symplectic was founded in 2003 in London, UK to serve the needs of researchers and research administrators. In December 2010, Symplectic became a portfolio company of Digital Science, a business unit of Macmillan Publishers Ltd. Symplectic Elements is a Research Information Management system that allows universities to easily pool data from different sources and verify data. Symplectic Elementsis in use in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, UK, and the US. www.symplecticelements.com

  3. Research Administration/Evaluation IT Faculty Library Administration

  4. Research Administration/Evaluation --Bibliographic Data and Impact – Evolving --Standards and Access – Innovation --Future Considerations

  5. Bibliographic Data Management of research information data is tough! De-centralized needs and practices Author name disambiguation Data infrastructure and normalization

  6. Bibliographic Data Management of research information data is tough! What counts as research output? When? -Publications -Data -Negative results -Pre-publication -Data Management Planning

  7. Impact Measuring individual and institutional influence 1970s 2013 *Thomson Reuters

  8. Standards Interoperability and data exchange Standardization – what is necessary to define people, objects, relationships Relate research outputs to funding

  9. Access Visibility and re-use of research information

  10. What next? --Institutional and National/Global Standards!! --Centralized/Aggregated institutional research gathering --Contextualize and tie to other initiatives --Minimize interaction: single point of access integrated with daily workflow --Support open access for publications and data management plan --Reuse data and collaborate

  11. Research Information Management Systems Scholarly Assessment in Transition Educause West/Southwest Online Conference Thank you!... Questions? Jeremy McLaughlin Director of Sales, North America Symplectic Ltd. Jeremy.mclaughlin@symplectic.co.uk www.symplecticelements.com

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