narcis: the gateway to dutch scientific information
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NARCIS: The Gateway to Dutch Scientific Information Elly Dijk, Chris Baars, Arjan Hogenaar and Marga van Meel KNAW Research Information ElPub 2006, Bansko (Bulgaria), 14-16 June 2006. Outline. KNAW Research Information NARCIS Background of the NARCIS project Content of NARCIS - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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NARCIS: The Gateway to Dutch Scientific Information
Elly Dijk, Chris Baars, Arjan Hogenaar and Marga van MeelKNAW Research Information
ElPub 2006, Bansko (Bulgaria), 14-16 June 2006
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Outline
• KNAW Research Information• NARCIS- Background of the NARCIS project- Content of NARCIS- Advantages for the users- End-users tests- NARCIS techniques- Future plans- Demonstration of the portal
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KNAW Research Information
• Academy's mission: to ensure the quality of scientific research in the Netherlands
• Our mission: national focal point of research information
• Dutch Research Database (NOD): current research, researchers and research institutes
• Development of NARCIS…
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What is NARCIS?
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NARCIS is a portal that combines:
• Structured research information from the NOD
• Information from academic OAI repositories
• Information from websites of universities and other research institutes
• All these records are simultaneously searchable
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Partners in the NARCIS project• The Academy (KNAW)• Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
(NWO) • Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU)• Information Centre of the Radboud University of
Nijmegen (RU-UCI)
• Funded by the DARE programme: national initiative to give free access to academic research output in the Netherlands
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Goals of the NARCIS project
• Giving an overview of research in the Netherlands
• Central place for searching all the different types of data
• Data collection via the already existing administrative systems of the participating institutes
• Registering of data only once
• Minimization of administrative report burden for researchers and institutes
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Institutes and researchers
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Research and (web) publications
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Datasets and news items
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Advantages for the users
• The different types of research information are simultaneously searchable (one-stop-shopping)
• Free access to Dutch academic full text publications • Up-to-date information: data gathered in an early stage
of the registration process• High quality information: editors select the sources of
NARCIS• Overview of Dutch scientific output• Scientific information also from repositories and
websites
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User Surveys
Two user surveys among:• Repository specialists (academic library staff)• Researchers, policy advisors and research information
officers
Goals of the surveys:• Input for further improvement of the site• ‘Look and feel’ and functionality of the NARCIS
homepage• Search functionality and limiting options
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The users are positive about:
• One portal for all types of research information • NARCIS web view appreciated (‘like Google’)
• Retrieval of web publications is value adding service
• Broad range of search options and search performance
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The users have criticisms about:
• Complexity of NARCIS-portal
• Limiting options too complicated
• Users perceive NARCIS as a new information source, instead of a shell around existing ones
• Presenting search results not only by relevance but also chronologically
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NARCIS: part two
• Technical aspects of NARCIS
• Future Developments
• Demo
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METIS
Webpages Institutional Repositories
NARCIS
Web-formsNWO
NOD
Categorizer
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Future developments
• Automatic categorisation of the content via Collexis
• Digital Identifier (for authors, institutes and objects) in order to connect the Dutch CRIS systems to the repositories
• Including CV-information of Dutch researchers
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NARCIS DEMO
http://www.narcis.info
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