Research Information Management Research Articles

Defining and Operationalizing Disaster Preparedness of Hospitals: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Introduction:Societies invest substantial amounts of resources on disaster preparedness of hospitals. However, the concept is not clearly defined or operationalized in the international literature.Aim:This study seeks to contribute to the alignment of knowledge of disaster preparedness in hospitals based on a systematic review and analysis of definitions and operationalizations.Methods:A systematic search was conducted in five databases: Scopus, Pubmed, Web of Science, Disaster Information Management Research Centre, and Safetylit. Peer-reviewed articles containing definitions and operationalizations of disaster preparedness in hospitals were included. Articles published in languages other than English, or without available full-text were excluded, as were articles on pre-hospital care.Results:Of the 39 included publications, 14 defined disaster preparedness in hospitals and 26 operationalized the concept. Although the definitions differed, they also reflected similar elements. Based on an analysis of the operationalizations, 12 different components could be identified that generally were not studied in relation to each other. Moreover, where publications primarily focused on structure and process aspects of disaster preparedness, 4 articles described the preferred outcome.Discussion:This review points at an absence of consensus on the definition and operationalization of disaster preparedness in hospitals. By combining the elements of the definitions and the components operationalized disaster preparedness could be conceptualized in a more comprehensive and complete way. A framework was developed that can guide future disaster preparedness research.

A framework for researcher participation in Research Information Management Systems

Ensuring the quality of information is a critical ethical issue for any information system. Research Information Management Systems (RIMSs) need to engage researchers in sharing research information and knowledge, and ensuring its quality. This paper introduces a theoretical framework for researcher participation in RIMSs. The framework is grounded in empirical research and can guide the design of RIMSs by defining typologies of researcher activities in RIMSs, related motivations, levels of participation, and metadata profiles. In addition, the framework defines discipline- and seniority-specific priorities for the researcher's activities and motivations. RIMS managers and scholarly communications librarians can use the framework to assemble RIMS service and metadata profiles that are tailored to the researcher's context. Likewise, the framework can guide the construction of communication messages personalized to the researcher's priorities and her or his motivations for engaging in a specific activity, which will enhance the researcher's engagement with the RIMS.

RETRACTED ARTICLE: The sustainable development information management of Winter Olympics based on Internet-based wireless sensor network

Environment is the foundation for human survival. Sustainable development is the main direction of social progress and the common choice of human progress. The development of the Winter Olympic Games is closely related to the progress of mankind and society. Therefore, it is particularly important to study the sustainable development of the Winter Olympic Games. Based on this, an Internet-based wireless sensor for Winter Olympic environment information acquisition scheme is proposed. The hardware and sensor modules of the wireless sensor are designed, and the adaptive weighting algorithm is used to fuse several wireless sensor nodes. By testing and analyzing the communication ability of a single wireless sensor node and the error rate under different distance, the data is collected for the environment information of a Winter Olympic sports field. The results of the data collection are very close to the actual environmental parameters. It shows that the wireless sensor network system based on the Internet has strong stability and reliability in data collection. It can provide effective data support for the information management research of sustainable development of Winter Olympic Games.

Investigation and analysis of the current situation of hospital nursing information system from the perspective of nurses

Objective To investigate the current development of hospital nursing information systems from the perspective of nurses. Methods According to the characteristics of nursing information system, self-made questionnaires were published online from 3rd to 10th May, 2018 in Weixin Subscription Number of Zhejiang Zhongwei Nursing Information Management Research Institute and all kinds of Weixin groups related to nursing management/information. A total of 1 966 nurses volunteered to participate in the survey and 1 364 valid questionnaires were collected. Results A total of 417 hospitals were covered in the survey, including 281 tertiary hospitals and 130 secondary hospitals. 82.75% of the tertiary hospitals and 65.65% of the secondary hospitals had nursing information system. The nursing information systems were mainly based on the clinical nursing information system and the nursing management information system. The proportion of clinical nursing information system meeting clinical nursing needs very well was 5.21%. The proportion of satisfying nursing management needs very well in nursing management information system was 1.96%. There are some problems in nursing information system, such as each subsystem can not be docked data can not be extracted, data need to be re-entered and so on. Conclusions The construction of hospital nursing information system in China is relatively backward, and nursing information system can not meet the needs of clinical and management. In order to build intelligent nursing information system, it is urgent to carry out research on nursing standard terminology. Key words: Nursing management research; Nursing information system; Current situation; Investigation

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Current Status of Research Information Management in Peru

Nowadays, there is full consensus that the promotion of Science, Technology and Innovation has a positive impact on the economic growth of a country. In Peru, national and institutional STI decision-making is hindered by the lack of information on research activities. The National Council of Science, Technology and Technological Innovation (CONCYTEC) in Peru is increasingly aware of the value of embracing best practices in Research Information Management (RIM) and establishing an adequate national CRIS infrastructure, a project which has taken the name PeruCRIS. In order to assess a baseline status for RIM practices along with other research management needs, CONCYTEC visited 20 public universities, 23 private universities and 10 research institutes and promoted the participation of Peruvian institutions in a Global Survey on Research Information Management (RIM) Practices. Although only 6 institutions reported having a RIM system, more than half survey respondent institutions were in the process of exploring, acquiring or implementing one. Most RIM systems have being developed in-house, and no commercial CRIS product was reported. Interoperability of existing RIMs is very limited with internal systems. No interoperability with external systems or support for persistent identifiers was reported. Institutions expressed very positive expectations regarding the role of CONCYTEC in the establishment of a national CRIS infrastructure in Peru.

Combining top down and bottom up in research information management

We explore the structuring of research information at a large German research university. The combination of the university leadership’s top-down system with the chairs’ bottom-up system creates a comprehensive research landscape. We discuss the challenges and solutions for this approach in general as well as those unique to our university.

Hello CRIS, can a Library Software solution help you?

The aim of this paper is to present how Brocade, a Library Information Management System, is used to set up an institutional repository and how this repository fits in and contributes to the development of a virtual CRIS system for the University of Antwerp. We focus on both organizational and technical challenges.Although not initially our intention, during the process of continuously optimizing the repository and fulfilling different needs, we ended up with a solution that is able to support research information management in various ways. An example of such an optimization was adding the possibility to describe projects in Brocade, an addition that was needed to make the repository OpenAire compliant. Storing more detailed information about affiliations in order to better allocate publications to research groups is another example.The repository of the University of Antwerp captures related metadata about scientific output (publications, non-written output and datasets), researchers, projects and organisations. The repository is fed automatically with metadata from bibliographic, human resources and research databases. The database today gives an overview and/or contains metadata of about 130,000 repository items, 6,500 researchers, 17,000 projects and 400 organisations. Full text documents are archived in the repository for the majority of peer-reviewed bibliographic items and made open access available where possible.By demonstrating how Brocade in relation with other applications is used for research information management at the university of Antwerp we conclude that it is possible to serve CERIF and CRIS needs by adapting existing systems and make them interoperable

Enriching metadata in an international agroforestry research repository with funding-related information by mining grey literature

Funding acknowledgements in research papers are an important resource for studying the impact of funding on research, but also present a utility for mapping the funding landscape of a particular discipline, the portfolios of certain funding agencies, their co-funding activities as well as the research performance of scientists and their organizations. However, the usage and detail of funding acknowledgements in publications vary in depth and lacks consistency. As it becomes increasingly important for research organizations to show the impact of their work to donor agencies, grey literature such as technical project reports can serve as a valuable source of information to complement the missing funding acknowledgements in their research information management systems. This paper presents the results of a study on extracting funding-related information from grey literature through text mining and complementing the corresponding MARC 21 bibliographic records of an international agroforestry research repository.

OpenAIRE compatibility for CRIS systems: recent progress

This paper reports on the progress that the OpenAIRE-funded, euroCRIS-led METIS2OpenAIRE project means for the implementation of the OpenAIRE Guidelines for CRIS Managers. An update of these guidelines has taken place in the past two years to enable a smoother and more effective information exchange process between CRIS systems and the OpenAIRE aggregation. METIS2OpenAIRE aimed to ensure OpenAIRE compatibility based on these version 1.1 guidelines for a first institutional research information management system, namely METIS at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. This three-and-a-half-month project also set out to support a number of parallel implementations by external, budget-neutral stakeholders that would ensure a widespread adoption of the newly released CRIS interoperability standard. These were PURE, the single most widely adopted CRIS platform worldwide, and OMEGA-PSIR, a widespread CRIS solution in Poland.The work carried out under the METIS2OpenAIRE initiative and its results as of mid-2018 are described in this piece. These results include the development of a minimally sufficient OpenAIRE validator for CRIS systems. This software, specifically designed to support the interoperability requirements for the METIS institutional CRIS at Radboud, should gradually evolve into the default mechanism for other CRIS systems to use in order to test their own level of compliance with the OpenAIRE Guidelines. As for the external stakeholders, by mid-2018 there is already significant progress in the route towards OpenAIRE compatibility for both PURE and OMEGA-PSIR.

Research Data Management (RDM) Strategy for Academic Libraries in Ghana: Setting a National Development Agenda

Academic libraries have in tandem, gradually assumed a superior role in a nation’s development. Academic library policies and practices over the world have therefore advocated holistic research data management in a physical and virtual landscape. These dynamics have posed challenges and consequences for socio-economic development for academic libraries in Ghana. This study analyses and assesses research data management policies and practices in academic libraries in order to develop a strategic and comprehensive framework that depicts real time coordination among stakeholders for socio-economic development, thus asetting a strong agenda for national development in Ghana. Using ethically professional research methods, this study adopted the purposive sampling techniques to select its sample size, scooped both quantitative and qualitative data from survey-based secondary data sources and modifies existing research data management theories and models to unravel and explain its findings. The Ghana Library Board (GLB), the Consortium of Academic and Research Li-braries in Ghana (CARLIGH), and the Ghana Library Association (GLA) are key policy formulation agencies in Ghana’s academic library industry with a goal of negotiating licensing agreements and play leadership roles to re-inforce research data management. Poor level of collaboration between researchers and librarians, lack of research data management skill, lack of technological innovation and financial constraints are key challenges of academic libraries in Ghana. Surely, academic libraries in Ghana have ex-hibited potentials for revitalizing research data management in the areas of health, education, employment, land and housing, governance, water and sanitation, agriculture, energy, urbanization, youth and gender studies, and the environment. The recommended national research data management policy framework with an embedded enterprise wide research management information system will assure the world’s academic library industry of an effective RDM strategy that drives global development, hone the expertise of academic libraries in Ghana and direct their research data management strategies.

Information management as a factor of innovative society development

The relevance of the topic of research of information management as a modern direction of the development of society is that in the 21st century the development of modern civilization has accelerated in the direction of globalization - economic, political, and cultural. The central problem for the development of informational civilization is information as one of the most important attributes and resources of human activity, which grows into knowledge.The problem of research is information management as a science that is not yet sufficiently developed in modern scientific literature; therefore, it is very important to study all new approaches to its development. The purpose of the research is the conceptualization of information management as a science, based on information and communication technologies and informatization mechanisms that help to identify the information and innovation potential of our country, develop information standards and implement intellectual human capital based on information.The article substantiates the essence, tasks and main directions of the development of the concept of information management, determined by informationalism. The transition to a new information civilization has the character of a "technocratic project", based on the innovative development of society, which is based on the information infrastructure. The development of information management is promoted by the "knowledge society", which cultivates a creative person, the formation of which is based on information and knowledge. The research tasks are the conceptualization of information management, its essence, content and main directions of development, which are introduced into the practice of the educational process of high school. The methodological basis for the formation and development of the concept of the information society is informationalism, studied by M. Castells (2000), as well as Autopoese methodology of Maturana and Varela. The results of the research are the formation of the concept of information management as one of the most modern trends in the development of the 21st century society, which is quite innovative, requiring the development of an informative and innovative society and an informative and innovative personality. Conclusions - the concept of information management should be introduced in all areas of the development of society, including high school, which requires the formation of a creative personality as a subject of an informative and innovative society

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ELit: a Research Management Information System

eLit is a web-based research management information system developed using CodeIgniter programming and MySQL database. eLit developed to use at Universitas Negeri Makassar and universities in Indonesia in general. This information system has entered in the second year in its development. This Information System developed with systems-based life development (SDLC). It is expected that with this eLit, the management of research at Makassar State University is based on information technology.

Research Communication Futures: A Perspective on the FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute

The FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute (FSCI), held July 28 through August 3, 2018, was an intensive weeklong summer school, tackling essential but often overlooked elements of the research information life cycle. Featuring a mix of librarians, scientists, data specialists, and other professionals, FSCI offered a remarkable educational experience as well as fertile ground for networking. Classes on research information management (RIM) infrastructure, detection of questionable journal publishing practices, and analysis of article processing charges (APCs) gave participants a deeper understanding of the research information life cycle in addition to hands-on skills in data analysis and visualization. For librarians, these takeaways add valuable context to serials and licensing work and highlight new directions for library skill building and visioning.

Promoting and Tracking Institutional Scholarship with Implementation of a Librarian-Curated Digital Repository and Research Information Management System

Library staff at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell implemented a digital repository to collect and showcase the scholarly output of the medical school and the Northwell Health system. This repository, entitled Zucker School of Medicine Academic Works, promotes scholarship by faculty, trainees, and staff via a centralized public website. With links to the full text and faculty profiles, the repository facilitates access and discoverability in alignment with the value of scholarship at the institution. Subsequent implementation of a research information management system to harvest publications further enhances the goals of tracking, promoting, and reporting impact of the scholarly activities. This article reviews successes and challenges, and collaboration with other stakeholder departments.

Information and data management at PUC-rio and UFMG

This article presents a summary of the main activities of the Database & Information Systems Research Group at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and the Information Management Research Group at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). These two groups played a pioneering role in the development of the information and data management research area in Brazil. The survey covers about four decades of research work, aiming at theoretical and practical results, with increasing participation of other groups that they helped to initiate.

Investigating Options for Increased Awareness and Use of Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Resources Among Libraries and Librarians (Part Two of a Two-Part Series)

ABSTRACTThe National Library of Medicine’s Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC) has compiled multiple resources and tools that can enhance libraries’ plans. The project described in this second article explored options to improve awareness and use of these and local resources. The assessment process, the findings and tools, and the recommendations can inform all library emergency preparedness plans and enhance their resilience.

Toward a metadata model for research information management systems

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships between researcher characteristics and their use of metadata in their ResearchGate profiles. Design/methodology/approach This paper reports on one part of a larger study that examined researchers’ use of and engagement with research information management systems (RIMSs). The study’s design included qualitative, semi-structured interviews with 15 researchers and a survey completed by 412 researchers. Detailed reports of findings from the interviews and survey can be found elsewhere. This paper reports on the part of the study that analyzed the use of metadata elements in the ResearchGate profiles of 126 survey participants. Findings Most researchers shared metadata related to their research rather than their teaching or service. Statistical analyses revealed statistically significant relationships between researchers’ metadata use and their participation levels in RIMSs, as well as between metadata use and researchers’ seniority. Originality/value The study’s findings help to identify researchers’ priorities for different metadata elements, as well as to construct profile metadata templates for each specific participation level.

Architecture Enabling Adaptation of Data Integration Processes for a Research Information System

Abstract Today, many efforts have been made to implement information systems for supporting research evaluation activities. To produce a good framework for research evaluation, the selection of appropriate measures is important. Quality aspects of the systems’ implementation should also not be overlooked. Incomplete or faulty data should not be used and metric computation formulas should be discussed and valid. Correctly integrated data from different information sources provide a complete picture of the scientific activity of an institution. Knowledge from the data integration field can be adapted in research information management. In this paper, we propose a research information system for bibliometric indicator analysis that is incorporated into the adaptive integration architecture based on ideas from the data warehousing framework for change support. A data model of the integrated dataset is also presented. This paper also provides a change management solution as a part of the data integration framework to keep the data integration process up to date. This framework is applied for the implementation of a publication data integration system for excellence-based research analysis at the University of Latvia.