BrCris within a much wider national/regional CRIS ‘family’

Abstract

The presentation provides a context for the newly-launched Brazilian national CRIS BrCris, which joins a much wider "family" of national research information management systems worldwide. The CRIS landscape is examined -- particularly in Latin America -- on the basis of the information held in the euroCRIS Directory of Research Information Systems (DRIS). Specific emphasis is made on the prominence of open source CRIS solutions in the region, with VIVO (that BrCris is based on, same as the national CONECTO platform in Panama) and DSpace-CRIS as the main open source CRIS platforms in the region. The recently launched CRISCROS working group for national and regional CRIS is introduced as a forum for an international discussion and exchange of best practices in the domain.