Institutional Repositories and Current Research Information Systems

Abstract

IRs (Institutional repositories) with deposit by the author of the ‘green’ peer-reviewed publication provide—through OA (open access)—improved access and intellectual property inventory. Increasingly organizations and research funders mandate deposit OA preferably in an IR. Publishers offer OA by author payment. CRIS (Current Research Information Systems) cover the research activity of an organization. CERIF (Common-European Research Information Format) is an EU recommendation to member states for CRIS. CERIF allows interoperability across CRIS. CERIF provides metadata describing publications with formal syntax and declared semantics. The CRIS provides the research context for the publication and links to associated research datasets and software.