1. Introduction 

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.

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