1. Introduction
2. What is Research Information Management System?
Research Information Management (RIM) is a web-based tool to consolidate the scholarly communication activities of the faculty members / and scientists in an institutions or group of institutions. The RIM collects the scholarly data from various sources
The system collect the scholarly data from various sources such as human resource development, course management, grant and award management system, open and proprietary citation database, institutional repositories, data repositories, etc.;
The system facilitate discovery of connection across research partners among the similarly interested group to address the research challenges; and
The Profile Management System is a discovery tool to locate an expert based on scholarly communication activities.
In a 2014 blog post, Lorcan Dempsey (OCLC Vice President, Membership and Research, Chief
Strategist) wrote about Research Information Management Systems (RIMS) as a potential new
service category for libraries. RIMS collect and store structured data about faculty research and
scholarly activities for one institution, with the intention of repurposing the information in a variety
of ways. Academic institutions in the U.S. and Canada are implementing systems such as
Activity Insight, Pure, Converis, and Symplectic Elements, which track publications and scholarly
activities of faculty. These systems give an overall picture of the research and scholarly
enterprise of an institution, and they offer faculty tools for collaborating, publicizing their work,
complying with policies (such as open access policies), and creating reports for faculty annual
review or promotion and tenure.
It is important to note that RIMS is not the only name by which these systems are known. In
Europe, where these systems were first developed and used, a more common term is Current
Research Information Systems (CRIS). Other terms include “profile system” or “networking tool”
and variations thereof.
How are research activities disseminated or shared?
The Challenges
Expectation from the stakeholders
VIVO
Reason to use VIVO
Features & Functionalities
Data Sources and work Flow
Who is using VIVO?
Ingest Process
Use case
Demo