narcis: the gateway to dutch scientific information

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

NARCIS: The Gateway to Dutch Scientific Information

Elly Dijk, Chris Baars, Arjan Hogenaar and Marga van MeelKNAW Research Information

ElPub 2006, Bansko (Bulgaria), 14-16 June 2006


Outline

• KNAW Research Information• NARCIS- Background of the NARCIS project- Content of NARCIS- Advantages for the users- End-users tests- NARCIS techniques- Future plans- Demonstration of the portal


KNAW Research Information

• Academy's mission: to ensure the quality of scientific research in the Netherlands

• Our mission: national focal point of research information

• Dutch Research Database (NOD): current research, researchers and research institutes

• Development of NARCIS…


What is NARCIS?


NARCIS is a portal that combines:

• Structured research information from the NOD

• Information from academic OAI repositories

• Information from websites of universities and other research institutes

• All these records are simultaneously searchable


Partners in the NARCIS project• The Academy (KNAW)• Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research

(NWO) • Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU)• Information Centre of the Radboud University of

Nijmegen (RU-UCI)

• Funded by the DARE programme: national initiative to give free access to academic research output in the Netherlands


Goals of the NARCIS project

• Giving an overview of research in the Netherlands

• Central place for searching all the different types of data

• Data collection via the already existing administrative systems of the participating institutes

• Registering of data only once

• Minimization of administrative report burden for researchers and institutes


Institutes and researchers


Research and (web) publications


Datasets and news items


Advantages for the users

• The different types of research information are simultaneously searchable (one-stop-shopping)

• Free access to Dutch academic full text publications • Up-to-date information: data gathered in an early stage

of the registration process• High quality information: editors select the sources of

NARCIS• Overview of Dutch scientific output• Scientific information also from repositories and

websites


User Surveys

Two user surveys among:• Repository specialists (academic library staff)• Researchers, policy advisors and research information

officers

Goals of the surveys:• Input for further improvement of the site• ‘Look and feel’ and functionality of the NARCIS

homepage• Search functionality and limiting options


The users are positive about:

• One portal for all types of research information • NARCIS web view appreciated (‘like Google’)

• Retrieval of web publications is value adding service

• Broad range of search options and search performance


The users have criticisms about:

• Complexity of NARCIS-portal

• Limiting options too complicated

• Users perceive NARCIS as a new information source, instead of a shell around existing ones

• Presenting search results not only by relevance but also chronologically


NARCIS: part two

• Technical aspects of NARCIS

• Future Developments

• Demo


METIS

Webpages Institutional Repositories

NARCIS

Web-formsNWO

NOD

Categorizer


Future developments

• Automatic categorisation of the content via Collexis

• Digital Identifier (for authors, institutes and objects) in order to connect the Dutch CRIS systems to the repositories

• Including CV-information of Dutch researchers


NARCIS DEMO

http://www.narcis.info


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