Abstract
Quantitative data are crucial in the assessment of research impact in the academic world. However, as a young university created in 2009, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) needs to aggregate bibliometrics from researchers coming from diverse origins, not necessarily with the proper affiliations. In this context, the University has launched an institutional repository in September 2012 with the objectives of creating a home for the intellectual outputs of KAUST researchers. Later, the university adopted the first mandated institutional open access policy in the Arab region, effective June 31, 2014. Several projects were then initiated in order to accurately identify the research being done by KAUST authors and bring it into the repository in accordance with the open access policy. Integration with ORCID has been a key element in this process and the best way to ensure data quality for researcher's scientific contributions. It included the systematic inclusion and creation, if necessary, of ORCID identifiers in the existing repository system, an institutional membership in ORCID, and the creation of dedicated integration tools. In addition and in cooperation with the Office of Research Evaluation, the Library worked at implementing a Current Research Information System (CRIS) as a standardized common resource to monitor KAUST research outputs. We will present our findings about the CRIS implementation, the ORCID API, the repository statistics as well as our approach in conducting the assessment of research impact in terms of usage by the global research community.
Highlights
The quality of a research institute can be defined in many ways; quality of its teaching, graduates, research outputs, social, environmental and economic impacts
Many of these attributes are incorporated into various international ranking formulae which are beginning to garner more and more media and political attention year on year. It is important for a young university, such as King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), created 5 years ago, to gather, curate, monitor and analyze all the publications produced by its researchers
The following three objectives were established for the repository [http://www.dpconline.org/newsroom/whats-new/933-whats-newissue-50-nov-2012#oneworld]: Ø Provide persistent access to university intellectual assets, including grey literature and research data, in order to preserve and share scientific knowledge created at KAUST
Summary
We present here our approach to the objectives and ensuing policies of an academic repository, its integration with other academic systems, its usage as a research evaluation tool and its importance for the university. The following three objectives were established for the repository [http://www.dpconline.org/newsroom/whats-new/933-whats-newissue-50-nov-2012#oneworld]: Ø Provide persistent access to university intellectual assets, including grey literature (e.g., technical reports, conference papers, theses etc.) and research data, in order to preserve and share scientific knowledge created at KAUST.
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