Current Research Information System
A Research Information System ( FIS ) is an information system, usually a database, which is a continuously updated, comprehensive directory of researchers and activities (eg, publications, projects and patents) is a research institution.
Integrated Research Information Systems serve academic and non - academic research institutions (such as research and development departments of industrial companies ) tend to overlook their portfolio of research activities, manage, evaluate, and develop. In this respect, research information systems are primarily a tool of research administration. At the same time they are also a source of authoritative, structured, timely and comprehensive data on researchers, their affiliations, activities, outputs and resources compared with third-party sponsors, the public sector and the general public ( research documentation).
Demarcation
In contrast to literature databases and digital libraries research information systems are used to track the activities of the ( current and past ) members of a particular research institution. This may include technical articles and other research publications are typical depending on the type of institution, but, for example, participation in externally funded projects or the supervision of doctoral work.
In contrast to commercial social network for researchers (eg, Research gate, Mendeley or academia.edu ) public researchers profiles in Research Information Systems can be indeed modified or supplemented by the persons described in it; basic information ( such as the names of the researchers and the nature of their membership in the respective research institution) but implied. The use of commercial social networking contrast, is purely voluntary, the information contained therefore incomplete.
Market research information systems
The market for information systems research is dominated in many countries of the products and services of scientific major publishers:
- SciVal, SciVal Experts and Pure ( Elsevier )
- Research in View, Converis (Thomson Reuters)
- Symplectic Elements ( Macmillan Publishers, through subsidiaries Digital Science )
In the Anglo-American free software VIVO and its affiliated Linked Open Data ontologies plays an influential role.
In German-speaking countries, there are various research information systems, which are usually developed as commercial systems (eg FACTScience Research Information System of qleo Science GmbH ) or as free software from academic libraries in-house solutions and operated, such as PUB at the University of Bielefeld and Invenio at the Central Library of the Research Center Jülich, at CERN, the libraries of the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY), the Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research (GSI ) and the RWTH Aachen.
Standards and Associations
- Worldwide: euroCRIS ( development of the XML standard CERIF )
- Germany: DINI AG FIS