irc overview
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Using the Illinois Research Connections Portal for Collaboration & Discovery
Rebecca Bryant, PhD [email protected]
https://experts.illinois.edu
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Where do you go to find information about Illinois expertise?
• Campus web site?• Departmental web site?• Individual web site?• Google Scholar?
• How do you find information across the Illinois campus?
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Project goals• Goal 1 of the University of Illinois Strategic
Plan proposes the development of a faculty profile-sharing database in order to promote scholarship, discovery & innovation.
• This system will:– Connect researchers with potential collaborators– Showcase Illinois research to external stakeholders– Automate publication data collection from reliable
source(s)– This project is NOT intended to support activity
reporting and assessment
A few use cases• Faculty, researchers, & staff
– Identify a potential collaborator with niche expertise—on- or off-campus
– Identify potential reviewers with needed expertise—for grant, fellowship, P&T, and much more
• Grad students/postdocs/undergrads:– Identify advisors, mentors, and committee members
• External– Media outlets looking for experts to interview on current
events topics– General public, BOT, legislators, & potential corporate
partners: view the breadth, depth, and significant of campus research in one central place.
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Project highlights• Collaborative OVCR/Library initiative• Comprehensive
– Up to 2,500 faculty & researcher profiles– Inclusion of all HR appointments for each included
researcher• Interdisciplinary
– Will include all disciplines, academic colleges and departments at Illinois
– It will also include research-oriented centers and institutes
• Project oversight from faculty governance committee
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IRC BETA• Launched December 2015• Initially includes 1,800 researchers
– Tenure-line faculty from STEM & SS disciplines– Researchers in OVCR institutes
• Includes Scopus-identified publications only– Pre-populates profiles with publication
information in Scopus publications index– Automatic weekly updates from Scopus data– Automatic creation of FingerprintTM concepts
• Arts & humanities profiles not yet visible
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Challenges & Opportunities• Scopus index is comprehensive, but it has some
subject area weaknesses, particularly in HSS• University Library is working to scrape OCLC WorldCat
publications data to capture monographs & book chapters• Phased roll-out
• Currently: AY2016 TT faculty only—no clinical faculty and only OVCR AP’s
• No arts & humanities faculty with publicly available profiles• Difficult to capture NTT researchers• Users, proxies, & unit-assigned administrators can
edit & enhance profiles• Online resources/FAQs for users http://go.illinois.edu/IRC • Future training sessions for unit administrators & librarians
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Can Users and Units Manage Profile Content?
• Users may:– Add/import publications– Change display name– Add profile enhancements like a photo or other CV information– Add additional info to support better publications capture:
ORCID iD, alternate names, Scopus ID & ResearcherID, etc.– Delegate a proxy to edit their profile for them– Instructions at http://go.illinois.edu/irc
• Units may:– Unit XOs can assign one or more unit administrators to
maintain publications information within their unit(s)– Online resources available at http://go.illinois.edu/irc – In-person workshop and video training in development
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Longer-term Opportunities• Expanding coverage
– Added 3,500 monographs & book chapters from OCLC WorldCat to enhance humanities/social science coverage
– Campus information: grants, patents– Unit/individual enhancement of records– Improve author disambiguation through
integration with ORCID• Interoperability
– How can other campus systems ingest this automatically-updated information?
DEMO
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Using the Illinois Research Connections Portal for Collaboration & Discovery
Rebecca Bryant, PhD [email protected]
https://experts.illinois.edu