Walking towards integrating CRIS and repository at the UPF: The CRIS/IR interoperability Project

Abstract

With the advancement of the Open Science movement, the wide spreading of institutional repositories (IRs) and the ever-growing implementation of the CRIS’s by the universities, we need to take a step forward to integrate the CRISs and the IRs.

Considering that only 31% of Spanish universities have successfully implemented a CRIS/IR integration, it’s clear that working on a project that enables institutions to operate a repository system in conjunction with a CRIS is key to foster open access distribution of published research outputs.

SIGMA with the Pompeu Fabra University (and also other universities of SIGMA group) are working on the ‘CRIS/IR interoperability project,’ which will lead to expand CRIS’ functionalities to carry out all the management of the scientific publication and complete its integration with the institutional repository in order to reduce the time it takes since a publication is reported in the CRIS and is accessible in open access in the repository.

The project to be explained includes the automated process of uploading the publication on the repository, from the CRIS (including journal policies management such as embargoes, transformation to Dublin Core schema, SWORD and so on).