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This overview provides insights into the adoption of CERIF in UK higher education institutions, highlighting the benefits and challenges. It explores the use of CERIF in research information management systems and the ongoing debate of replacing institutional repositories with CRIS.
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RIM support/UK CERIF landscape overview JISC RIM: CERIF workshop Bristol, 27-28 June 2012 Rosemary Russell, Innovation Support Centre, UKOLN, University of Bath UKOLN is supported by:
JISC Innovation Support Centreat UKOLN • Includes support for JISC Research Information Management Programme eg • workshops • liaison with euroCRIS • supporting documentation for JISC Calls • project syntheses • blog posts • CERIF resources • ‘landscape’ studies
Adoption of CERIF in Higher Education Institutions in the UK: A Landscape Study (March 2012) • CRIS procurement in UK has increased rapidly since 2009 • eg first UK Pure system procured in May 2009, now 19 users • only one in-house development • as a result, CERIF has been widely adopted: ~31% of UK HEIs • http://isc.ukoln.ac.uk/work/rim/
euroCRIS institutional membership: reflects UK CRIS activity…
However many institutions are not engaging with CERIF • experience of CERIF mediated by CRIS software used • most have basic understanding of CERIF • rely on vendor, and expertise in UK user groups • only JISC projects are properly engaging with CERIF • many are keen to engage more (lack time, REF…) • concern that lack of understanding will hinder their CRIS use • CERIF expertise beneficial for CRIS implementation process, enabling better exploitation, challenging vendors…
Will IRs be replaced by CRIS? • ongoing debate – • can institutional repository functionality be replaced by CRIS? • some institutions already taken this route – KCL, Bristol… • most have integrated IR with CRIS • one exception (because of mapping overhead) • several maintaining watching brief