0. Abstract
Title:
Role of Library in Implementation of Research Information Management System
Abstract
India's scholarly contributions in the year 2017 were 1,00,146 (Web of Science) and were 1,51,270 (Scopus) as on 15th October 2018. Apart from the above, scholars publishAcademic and R&D organisations have been providing an enormous opportunity to the scholarly community to carry out research through scholarship or fellowship. Institutes or scholars often seeking funds for the research project, it is a challenging task and time-consuming process to find out potential collaborator for the research project, project proposal review, inter-disciplinary research. Information about research and research activities scattered in various places such as HR system, course management, grant management system, institutional repositories, open and commercial citation databases, funding agencies and scholarly publishers. The research and progress of research within or across the institute is not visible to the research community or do not get due publicity due to lack of sharing the research activities or lack of awareness about the open source tools, techniques. The research output and activities of the Institute or faculty need to be archived with the matured architecture adhering International Standards. Institute level research activities organised in the proper manner, as the nation, we could save huge money and efforts. At the international level, non-profit organisations such as Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information (CASRAI) (Corson-Rikert, 2012) is continuously making efforts to make the research data interoperable and reusable. Development of research information management system compatible with international standard is vital for any organisation to showcase the research activities to the peer group or the funding agencies. The Research Information Management is the new service category under the library. The Library and Library Professional play a crucial role to organize the scholarly communication data and promote in the academic community.