Bringing Colour in Grey Literature

Marjan Vernooy-GerritseneuroCRIS - Rome – May 2010

Agenda

• About SURF

• Grey Literature

• Social Relevance of Research

• ERiC, Evaluation Research in Context

• ERiC and CRIS

SURF

• SURF is the Netherlands higher education and research partnership organisation for network services and information and communications technology (ICT).

• The Mission of SURF is to exploit and improve a common advanced ICT infrastructure that will enable higher education institutions to better realize their own ambitions and improve the quality of learning, teaching and research.

Higher Education in the Netherlands

• Netherlands: 16½ million Inhabitants

• 500.000 students, 18-25 years old

• 13 Universities + 1 Open University

• 40 Universities for applied sciences

• 5 large public/private Research Institutes- National Library (KB), Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts

and Sciences (KNAW), Netherlands Organisation for

Scientific Research (NWO), Knowledge for Business (TNO),

and the Police Academy

• All participate in SURF voluntarily- as a paying member

- represented in SURF Board

SURF

Innovation for - Education - Management - Research

Gigabit Internet for Higher Education and Research

Legal software for an illegal price

ICT and Research

• SURFshare programme on sharing Knowledge- Scholarly Communication

- Open Access to Research Output

- Repository Infrastructure

• NL-RIS project, to a national CRIS for Higher Education (including University Medical Centers).

• Participation in EU projects- DRIVER and DRIVER II

- PEER

- OpenAIRE

Enhanced Publiation(compound object)

Enhanced Publiation(compound object)

ePRINT (text

publication)

ePRINT (text

publication)

Data Object

(s)

Data Object

(s)

Compound Object(s)

Compound Object(s)

MetadataMetadata

Definition Enhanced Publication

xx yy zz

And Or

8

Datamodel Enhanced Publication

ObjectObject

MetadataMetadata

AgentAgent VersionVersion

Sharing Research Data

9

10

2009 Year of Open Accesswww.openaccess.nl

• Website Open Access: www.openaccess.nl

Academic Information Domain

Systeem

NARCISportal

(KNAW)

Danish design

wasstraat en doorgeefluik van informatie over onderzoeksresultaten in onderlinge samenhang

(consolidatie, ontdubbeling, kwaliteitscontrole)

NL-RIS

IRs

Central Thesauri

(DAI, Titles, Citations, ....)

OCWNWO

Dutch design

DRIVER infrastructure: Narcis national aggregetor

Enabling Layer

Data Layer

EU Open AccessRepositories

Functionality Layer

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sers

D-NET / DRIVER portal

National portals

Project Application

Knowledge Exchange

• The Knowledge Exchange partners - Denmark’s Electronic Research Library (DEFF) in Denmark

- German Research Foundation (DFG) in Germany

- Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the UK

- SURF Foundation in the Netherlands

- http://knowledge-exchange.info 

• Vision: to make a layer of scholarly and scientific content openly available on the Internet.

Knowledge Exchange

• CRIS-OAR Interoperability project - Metadata exchange format for publication information with an

associated common vocabulary 

- Co-ordination Mikael Elbæk /Mogens Sandfaer

• PersID project (www.persid.org)- To guarantee persistent identification, persistent location and

persistent access to electronic scholarly and cultural heritage

resources

- Governance Roadmap

- Infrastructure of Uniform Resource Name (URN) based

Persistent Identifiers

- Coordination Bas Cordewener (SURF Foundation)

The Netherlands

• Problem- High ranking of universities and research groups, but a lack

of innovation in important industrial activities and the public

sector

• Solutions- Reinforcement of the link between education and

knowledge institutions, businesses and civil organisations

- Open Access to output of public funded research in NL

- National Licence for Scientific Journals

- Valorisation of research output …….> Grey Literature??

Grey Literature

• Definition- Papers, reports, technical notes or other documents

produced and published by governmental agencies,

academic institutions and other groups that are not

distributed or indexed by commercial publishers.

• Problem- Many of these documents are difficult to locate and obtain.

• Solution- Depositing the documents in an Open Access repository

- Recording as research output in a CRIS

- Evalutation: credits for the researchers for Grey Literature

of high quality

Evaluation of Research

• Standard Evaluation Protocol (SEP) for assessment of research- Common guidelines for the evaluation and improvement of

research and research policy, based on expert assessments.

• Objectives of SEP 2009-2015- Improvement of research quality based on an external peer

review, including scientific and societal relevance of

research, research policy and research management.

- Accountability to the board of the research organisation,

and towards funding agencies, government and society at

large.

Evaluation of Research

• New: strong emphasis on Social, cultural and economic relevance:- Societal Quality

- Societal Impact

- Valorisation (re-use)

• Grey Literature - Essential part of research output

- High societal impact

- Opportunity for valorisation of research output

Evaluating social quality and valorisation

• ERiC protocol, Evaluating Research in Context- Stage 1: mission and compilation of self image

- Stage 2: profile of the research group (quantitative)

- Stage 3: stakeholder analysis (qualitative by interviews)

- Stage 4: feedback and reflection (strategic discussion)

√ Quantitative performance compared with

qualitative assessment of users

√ Empirical results compared with mission

Evaluating social quality and valorisation

• ERiC protocol, Evaluating Research in Context

• SIAMPI- International, interdisciplinary consortium of knowledge

institutions supported by the European Commission that

aims to develop methods to assess the social impact of

research and research funding instruments.

• SIGLE OpenSIGLE OpenGrey

Evaluating social quality and valorisation of research output

• ERiC in the Netherlands

• SIAMPI in FP7

• How could a CERIF compliant CRIS support the evaluation of Social impact of research?

DRIVER series

• http://dare.uva.nl/aup/nl/record/316871 - The European Repository Landscape 2008 : Inventory of Digital Repositories for Research Output - Van der Graaf, Maurits

• http://dare.uva.nl/aup/nl/record/316870 - Emerging Standards for Enhanced Publications and Repository Technology : Survey on Technology – Van Godtsenhoven, Karen et al.  

• http://dare.uva.nl/aup/nl/record/316849 - Enhanced Publications : Linking Publications and Research Data in Digital Repositories - Woutersen-Windhouwer, Saskia et al.