Building the Ukrainian Research Information System

Abstract

Ukraine is home to 619 higher education institutions (including 281 universities) and National Academy of Science which is an umbrella organization that consists of 160 research institutions. In sum, nearly 1000 organizations and about 80,000 researchers perform scientific activities on a daily basis. Besides, nearly 4,000 applications for inventions, 9,000 applications for useful models and 2,500 applications for industrial patterns are submitted annually. At the same time, metadata that accompanies various research activities as well as information that describes the research output is fragmented and resides in different, heterogeneous systems or in some cases is absent in machine readable format. Such a situation makes the reporting process tiring and highly time consuming as institutional research offices have to search in several different systems, including commercial, subscription based databases like Web of Science and Scopus. Moreover, lack of state-of-the-art research information is one of the deficiencies of the scientific landscape, which negatively impact funding allocation. In this poster we would like to present our progress on building National Current Research Information System and provide overview of research infrastructure in Ukraine.