Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A university running Pure as its CRIS, exposing a public 'research portal' and feeding the national REF submission.
- Is an instance
A research council running VIVO to publish a federated graph of its institute's researchers and projects.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
An institutional repository alone (DSpace, EPrints) is not a CRIS — it stores outputs but not the broader activity graph.
- Not an instance
A grants-management database alone is not a CRIS without the publications, people, and outputs layers.
Editorial commentary
A CRIS is the system of record for an institution’s research activity. Typical CRIS functions include: ingesting publication data from Scopus, Web of Science, Crossref, and PubMed; harvesting from institutional repositories via OAI-PMH; receiving award notifications from funder systems; managing researcher CV pages; producing reports for national assessment exercises (REF, ERA, BRA, etc.); and exposing data through public researcher and unit portals. Commercial CRIS products include Pure (Elsevier), Elements (Symplectic, part of Digital Science), Converis (Clarivate); open-source equivalents include VIVO and DSpace-CRIS.
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Also known as
Current Research Information System · Research Information System
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
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