The presentation "Research Information Management Systems: an Overview from Europe" delivered by the euroCRIS Technical Secretary within the FSCI 2024 training course on RIMS is already available in the euroCRIS repository.
On Tue Jul 16th the Jisc will hold a webinar on the issues associated with the procurement of CRIS systems and repositories. The discussion will elaborate on the poster on the Jisc Research Management Systems Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) that was recently presented at the CRIS2024 Conference in Vienna.
Several editions of the María de Guzmán (MdG) call issued by the Spanish Foundation of Science and Technology (FECYT) have provided funding for the development of e-infrastructure at Spanish research-perfoming organisations as a means to support Open Science. This covers both Open Access repositories and CRIS systems. A workshop will be held in Madrid on Tue 9 July to discuss this area of activity with some of the funded proposals in different editions of the MdG call.
A guest presentation by euroCRIS was delivered within the half-day event on "The relevance of CRIS systems for research information management at universities" held by Peruvian Ministry of Education on Fri 28 Jun 2024. The international perspective provided by euroCRIS was complemented on the event programme by presentations from the BrCRIS national project in Brazil and from the team behind the VIVO-based institutional CRIS at Agrosavia in Colombia.
The annual euroCRIS Financial Report for 2023 adopted by the Board during its Feb 2024 in-person meeting in The Hague and recently presented at the CRIS2024 Conference is now available online as required by the euroCRIS Statutes. The last part of this economic summary for 2023 includes the auditor's report issued in April this year.
The June 2024 issue of the magazine "La collection numérique" includes two short pieces on euroCRIS and CRIS systems. The magazine is published by euroCRIS member Amue (Agence de mutualisation des universités et établissements d'enseignement supérieur ou de recherche). This issue 32 is called "Sharing from here and abroad" and showcases a good number of international initiatives.
A webpage is now available summarising the list of CRIS2024 presentations whose authors confirmed their intention to submit a full paper for its publications in the CRIS2024 proceedings. Full papers – ideally including a PDF and the original docm or LaTeX version, should be sent to euroCRIS by June 30th, 2024 either by uploading them into the easyChair record used for the original submission or by directly sending it via email to cris2024-proceedings [at] eurocris.org.
A few weeks after the May 15-17 CRIS2024 conference at TU Wien came to an end, a carousel of 50 conference pictures taken by the event photographer Sviatlana Bubnevich has been made available on the conference website. A high-res version of the CRIS2024 group photo is also available for Day III attendees (Fri May 17th) to be able to spot themselves on the pic.
euroCRIS, the international not-for-profit association of research information management and its associated systems, welcomes and supports the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information. euroCRIS encourages not only its members but also other institutions that produce research information to take up and implement the Declaration. This initiative contributes to further international cooperation and knowledge-sharing across the research information community and to increased levels of openness, transparency, standardisation, and interoperability of research information and related infrastructures.
All presentations delivered at the recently held CRIS2024 Conference in Vienna are already available in the euroCRIS repository. The Procedia Computer Science template that contributors to the CRIS2024 proceedings should use to format their full-text papers is also available here, as is the official CRIS2024 group picture.