The French-language book "Research Information Systems: Evaluation, Performance and Responsibility" ("Les systèmes d’information sur la recherche: Évaluation, performance et responsabilité") was published in January by the London-based ISTE Group. The short book is coauthored by euroCRIS Board member Joachim Schöpfel and prolific contributor to euroCRIS events Otmane Azeroual at the Uiversity of Hagen in Germany.
Following the successful 4th CERIF surgery held on Thu Jan 15th, the leads for the refactored CERIF Jan Dvořák and Dragan Ivanović have scheduled a new one at 2pm CET on Thu Jan 29th. This 5th online discussion will focus on the modelling of instruments and facilities in the refactored CERIF.
The euroCRIS-led INST-DSpace project to add instruments and facilities to an expanded DSpace-CRIS data model has been awarded funding by the Vietsch Foundation. The project will involve a collaboration between euroCRIS and 4Science to model the equipment entity in CERIF so that instruments and facilities can be added to the snapshot for the institutional research activity.
The Autumn 2026 euroCRIS Strategic Membership Meeting (SMM2026) will be held Nov 24-26 at Tecnalia in San Sebastian, Spain. A call for proposals for the event will be released in the summer.
