---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lawson, Gerald J. gela -- nerc.ac.uk List-Post: [email protected] List-Post: [email protected] Date: Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 6:32 AM Subject: Re: Use of Web of Science Web Services? To: JISC-REPOSITORIES -- jiscmail.ac.uk
Les, thanks for this. 1) Good news about EPrints - someone from DSpace might indicate whether anything similar is available? 2) The problem is that authors, publishers and funders ignored the Feb 2008  RIN Agreement on acknowledgement of Funder Information. And it was only UK based anyway. (http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/research-funding-policy-and-guidance/acknowledgement-funders-journal-articles).  This recommended codified grammar for fundername and asked that grantrefs were enclosed in square brackets.  It would have facilitated data-mining, but were stuck with random text in acknowledgements, which can effectively only be manually extracted.  TR must spend a lot of time doing this and understandably offer funder information only as part of their Premium Web Services. MIMAS (possibly others) have worked on data mining of acknowledgements - it would be good to know how they got on? I agree that Research Councils need to supply more  integrated information on grants from our GoW systems.  We will be implementing a cross-council GoW project early next year.  In the meantime, NERC, on request, can provide a CERIF 2008 extract to any Research Organisation which wants to import their grants data into a CRIS (feedback will be asked for - since it was not always apparent how best to code grants data - e.g. % subject classifications -  into CERIF!). Gerry Lawson, NERC Research Information Systems, 01793-444417 (o) 07740-068060 (m) [email protected] ________________________________________ From: Les A Carr [lac -- ecs.soton.ac.uk] Sent: 04 August 2011 10:12 To: Lawson, Gerald J. Cc: JISC-REPOSITORIES-- JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: Use of Web of Science Web Services? On 3 Aug 2011, at 13:40, Lawson, Gerald J. wrote: > 1. Are there EPrints or DSpace plugins to facilitate this? We have added this as a native capability within the new version of EPrints that we are about to release. > 2. Would the following be workable - say from 1 Jan 2012 onwards? It is notable that this solution depends on the output of the funded work being represented in WoS/Scopus. It would be  more efficient and more widely applicable if the data were made directly available in a web service for the academic community to use. That way repository depositors could easily provide the funder/grantid combos in their data (e.g. autocomplete on grant names), but other institutional information services would be able to benefit (e.g. research group portals listing their most recent grants). Perhaps HEFCE could commit to releasing some linked data? --- Les Carr
