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CRIS2024 pre-event symposium

Sun, 17/03/2024 - 00:13 -- euroCRIS Secret...

The full-day symposium "Cross-cutting research support services" will be held by the Cluster Research Data at TU Wien on Tue Mar 14th. The activity, to be held as an in-person event at TUtheSky, aims to explore ongoing projects, learn about European implementation examples, and engage in discussions on forthcoming challenges at the interplay of research information systems, research data management and digital technologies/infrastructures.

CRIS2024 Conference registration open

Sun, 17/03/2024 - 00:00 -- euroCRIS Secret...

On Fri Mar 8th the registration opened for the CRIS2024 Conference in Vienna later this year. The Eventbrite registration page is linked from the CRIS2024 website. The Early Bird registration will remain open until midnight on Sun Mar 24th. There are two-tier discounts for group registrations for three or more and six or more registered attendees from the same institution – please contact to arrange any of these.

Research management systems DPS announced by Jisc

Sun, 18/02/2024 - 17:11 -- euroCRIS Secret...

The Jisc Research management systems dynamic purchasing system (DPS), whose design euroCRIS has supported, was announced on Feb 12th and will be officially launched in April 2024. This procurement scheme complements the already existing Research outputs repository DPS and its launch means it will now also be able to be used for procuring CRISs in the UK. The request to participate (RTP) document for suppliers to join the DPS has been published and is currently open for application. Institutions planning to procure a CRIS or a repository who may want to use the Research management systems DPS are encouraged to ask their possible suppliers to apply to join the DPS.

Increasing role of CRIS in research contract management

Sun, 18/02/2024 - 14:11 -- euroCRIS Secret...

The Research Contracts Benchmarking 2023 Public Report published earlier this month by Research Consulting states (among other interesting findings) that "50% of participating institutions use a research information management system to support research contracts management: a notable increase since 2018". After previous ones in 2013 and 2018, this is the third iteration of a benchmarking project looking at research contract management across universities in the UK and Australia.

Joint euroCRIS/ORCID WG on affiliation management in ORCID

Sun, 18/02/2024 - 13:49 -- euroCRIS Secret...

Following conversations held at the Autumn 2023 euroCRIS Strategic Membership Meeting in Pamplona (Spain) last Nov, a joint euroCRIS/ORCID Working Group is currently being put together to address the topic of affiliations in ORCID records and the role CRIS systems may play in the associated workflows. A description of this WG is available online and expressions of interest from euroCRIS willing to be part of the discussion are encouraged. A form has been made available for such expressions of interest to be raised by the end of Feb 2024.

ECR support scheme introduced for CRIS2024 Conference

Tue, 13/02/2024 - 14:38 -- euroCRIS Secret...

The CRIS2024 Conference in Vienna will see the first iteration of the newly-launched euroCRIS ECR support scheme to support the participation in the event of early stage researchers and technicians in the research information management domain. The scheme aims to waive the conference and official dinner registration fee for eligible ECRs up to a maximum of five attendees.

Omega-PSIR presented at CCHS-CSIC in Spain

Fri, 09/02/2024 - 07:10 -- euroCRIS Secret...

On Mon Feb 12th the full-day event "Research Information services and Evaluation: The Polish Experience with CRIS, Open Access and Research Data repositories" will be held at the Center for Human and Social Sciences of the Spanish National Research Council (CCHS-CSIC) in Madrid, Spain. This will be an in-person-only 10am-7pm session where best practices in research information management, Open Access and Research Data Management in Poland will be addressed.

euroCRIS at the IDCC24 WS1 "Elevating data management planning"

Mon, 05/02/2024 - 00:18 -- euroCRIS Secret...

The IDCC2024 Workshop 1 "Elevating data management planning: Interoperability of RDM services through machine-actionability" to be held in Edinburgh on Mon Feb 19th will see euroCRIS represented on its programme. euroCRIS will join other research data-related services such as (among others) DataCite, re3data and OpenAIRE in the session "Rapid-fire talks by RDM platforms".