> On Nov 11, 2015, at 3:58 PM, Lucie Burgess <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Dear Stevan, all
> 
> I would be very interested to hear more about good (particularly open-source 
> if available)
> in-house university CRIS systems, from anyone who is willing to share this 
> information.
> We are working on a review of our systems for open access, research data 
> management
> and REF reporting/ funder compliance at the moment and this would be valuable 
> input.

Preliminary reply from Keith Jeffery:

> From: Keith Jeffery <[email protected]>
> Date: November 12, 2015 at 12:36:23 PM GMT-5
> To: Stevan Harnad <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Lucie Burgess ([email protected])" 
> <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: Liege-type policy at Kings College London
> 
> Stevan, Lucie –
>  
> There are many functionally equivalent CRIS but they are ‘homebrew’ or 
> developed for a
> particular organisation by a particular software company.  Typical examples 
> are systems
> in Czech Republic and Slovakia.  What they share is they all use CERIF and so 
> can interoperate.
>  
> euroCRIS is currently building a reference model CRIS which I believe will be 
> made available
> to euroCRIS members (euroCRIS as a community is currently meeting in 
> Barcelona and
> I understand the board will take decisions while there).  It will be based on 
> the CRIS developed
> by EKT in Greece (where they are rolling it out to all the universities and 
> research labs with an
> aggregator CRIS at EKT for the ministry).
>  
> Let me check with euroCRIS colleagues the exact state of play on this and get 
> back to you
> Best
> Keith

Another excerpt from Keith Jeffery:

> PURE is a product from Atira (DK) spun out from Aalborg University and they 
> were then taken 
> over by Elsevier.  
> 
> (Thomson Reuters took over the CONVERIS system from AVEDAS for the same 
> reason).  
> 
> … both use CERIF which... has referential and functional integrity and the 
> concept of relationships 
> between base entities(objects))
>  
> One great advantage is that in CERIF date/time information is recorded not on 
> the base 
> object records (digital object y has an attribute date/time and an attribute 
> value person x) 
> but on the relationships between them – person x deposited digital object y 
> between 
> date/time 1 and date/time 2 (these may be the same of course).   
> Note that person x may not be the author  (and a separate CERIF relationship 
> would link 
> digital object and person in role author – or even primary author or 30% 
> author or…)
>  
> This... has a very large effect when analysing research performance and when 
> utilising 
> catalogs (built on CERIF) in e-Research infrastructures and VREs.

>  
> 
> Kind regards
> Lucie
> 
> Lucie Burgess
> Associate Director for Digital Libraries
> Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
> Clarendon Building, Broad Street, Oxford
> Senior Research Fellow, Hertford College
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 277104
> +44 (0)7725 842619
> Twitter @LucieCBurgess
> LinkedIn LucieCBurgess
> http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6601-7196
> Get ready for the REF – Act on Acceptance 
> <http://openaccess.ox.ac.uk/home-2/act-on-acceptance/>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From: Stevan Harnad <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Reply-To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Date: Wednesday, 11 November 2015 19:36
> To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Subject: [GOAL] Re: PURE nonsense
> 
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Lucie Burgess 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 
> wrote:
>  
>> I think it’s worth noting that HEFCE has in fact changed its policy to ‘the 
>> published version’ rather than the author accepted manuscript for open 
>> access articles published under the ‘gold’ route, hence delaying open access 
>> to the article until it is published. See: 
>> http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/Year/2015/CL,202015 
>> <http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/Year/2015/CL,202015>/ and scroll to the heading 
>> ‘gold open access outputs’.
> 
> More's the pity. But the lost OA time is the author's, since the Gold OA 
> articles have no OA embargo. Nothing changes for articles published in 
> subscription journals. 
> 
> (But it's still a waste of money to pay for pre-Green Fool's Gold -- and now 
> a waste of time too.)
>  
>> And PURE is not the only CRIS system being adopted by UK universities to 
>> help them manage the administrative burden of the REF or reporting and 
>> statistics required by many funders to support compliance.
> 
> The problem is not the CRIS (which is just a record-keeping system, 
> completely compatible with immediate institutional full-text deposit in the 
> institutional repository); the problem is outsourcing the CRIS function to 
> publishers. 
> 
> In-house CRIS's are an excellent complement to institutional repositories.
> 
> Stevan Harnad
> University of Southampton
>  
>> Lucie Burgess
>> Associate Director for Digital Libraries
>> Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
>> Clarendon Building, Broad Street, Oxford
>> Senior Research Fellow, Hertford College
>> Tel: +44 (0)1865 277104 <tel:%2B44%20%280%291865%20277104>
>> +44 (0)7725 842619 <tel:%2B44%20%280%297725%20842619>
>> Twitter @LucieCBurgess
>> LinkedIn LucieCBurgess
>> http://orcid.org/ <http://orcid.org/>0000-0001-6601-7196
>> Get ready for the REF – Act on Acceptance 
>> <http://openaccess.ox.ac.uk/home-2/act-on-acceptance/>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> From: Stevan Harnad <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>> Reply-To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>> Date: Wednesday, 11 November 2015 16:09
>> To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>> Subject: [GOAL] PURE nonsense
>> 
>> 
>> PURE is a Trojan Horse from Elsevier 
>> <https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/pure> that (some) UK institutions have 
>> allowed to enter their portals. It is a trick, by Elsevier, to insinuate 
>> themselves into and retain control of everything they can: access, timing of 
>> access, fulfillment of mandates, research assessment, everything. The ploy 
>> was to sneak in via CRIS’s, which are systems for institutions wishing to 
>> manage and monitor their metadata on all their functions.
>> 
>> Notice that the following passage from KCL's OA Policy 
>> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/governancezone/Assets/InformationPolicies/Open%20Access%20Policy.pdf>
>>  makes no mention of timing:
>> 
>>>> In internal evaluation procedures it will be expected that all 
>>>> publications considered as part of appraisal or promotional assessments, 
>>>> will have a metadata record in the Research Information System, Pure, with 
>>>> either the full text article attached and downloadable from the Research 
>>>> Portal, or a link to the Open Access article on the journal’s web site. 
>> 
>> What Pure is in reality designed to do is to make sure that the full text is 
>> not openly accessible until after the publisher embargo on Open Access.
>> 
>> In point of fact, the battle for OA has long shifted to the arena of timing: 
>> The 1-year (or longer) embargo is the one to beat. Access after the embargo 
>> elapses is a foregone conclusion (publishers have already implicitly 
>> conceded on it, without overtly saying so). But access embargoed for 12 
>> months is not OA. Publishers want to make sure (1) there is no OA before the 
>> embargo elapses, (2) the embargo is as long as possible, and even after the 
>> embargo, (3) access should be via the publisher website, or at least 
>> controlled in some way by the publisher.
>> 
>> That’s exactly what PURE + CRIS does.
>> 
>> And (some) UK institutions (under pressure from Finch’s fatal foolishness — 
>> likewise originating from the publisher lobby) have been persuaded that PURE 
>> will not only provide all the OA they want, but will take a lot of other 
>> asset-management tasks off their shoulders.
>> 
>> It’s a huge scam, masquerading as OA, and its only real function is to 
>> strengthen the perverse status quo — of ceding the control of university 
>> research access to publishers — even more than they had before.
>> 
>> It won’t succeed, of course, because HEFCE/REF2020 has nailed down the 
>> timing of full-text deposit as having to be made within 3 months of 
>> acceptance (not publication) for eligibility for REF2020, which a metadata 
>> promissory note from Elsevier will not fullfill. My hope is that 
>> universities will be as anxious as they have been for 30 years now not to 
>> risk REF ineligibility by failing to comply with this very specific 
>> requirement.
>> 
>> (And the institution’s copy-request Button 
>> <http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/1110-Importance-of-Request-Copy-Button-in-Implementing-HEFCEREF-Immediate-Deposit-Policy.html>
>>  will take care of the rest, as long as all full-texts are deposited within 
>> Acceptance + 3.)
>> 
>> (I think it was a mistake on HEFCE/REF’s part to state formally that there 
>> is no need to archive the dated acceptance letter that defines the 
>> acceptance date, but again I trust in the anxiety of universities to comply 
>> with REF2020 eligibility requirements to draw the rational conclusion that 
>> is indeed within 3 months of acceptance that deposit must be done for 
>> eligibility, and not 12 months after publication.)
>> 
>> As you will see from the ROARMAP data below, KCL’s OA policy 
>> <http://roarmap.eprints.org/690/> alone is not compliant with the 
>> requirement for REF2020 eligibility, and the above extract does not change 
>> that one bit!
>> 
>> Best wishes,
>> 
>> Stevan
>> 
>> 
>> King's College London
>> General
>> Country:     Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
>> Northern Ireland <http://roarmap.eprints.org/view/country/826.html>
>> Policymaker type:    Research organisation (e.g. university or research 
>> institution)
>> Policymaker name:    King's College London
>> Policymaker URL:     http://www.kcl.ac.uk/index.aspx 
>> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/index.aspx>
>> Policy URL:  
>> http://www.kcl.ac.uk/governancezone/InformationPolicies/Open-Access-Policy.aspx
>>  
>> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/governancezone/InformationPolicies/Open-Access-Policy.aspx>
>> Repository URL:      https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/ 
>> <https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/>
>> Policy adoption date:        16 July 2012
>> Source of policy:    Administrative/management decision
>> Policy Terms
>> Deposit of item:     Required
>> Locus of deposit:    Institutional Repository
>> Date of deposit:     When publisher permits
>> Content types specified under the mandate:   Peer-reviewed manuscripts
>> Journal article version to be deposited:     Not Specified
>> Can deposit be waived?:      Not specified
>> Making deposited item Open Access:   Required
>> Can making the deposited item Open Access be waived?:        Not Specified
>> Date deposit to be made Open Access: When publisher permits
>> Other Details
>> Is deposit a precondition for research evaluation (the 'Liège/HEFCE 
>> Model')?:        Yes
>> Rights holding:      Not Mentioned
>> Can rights retention be waived?:     Not specified
>> Can author waive giving permission to make the article Open Access?: Not 
>> specified
>> Policy's permitted embargo length for science, technology and medicine:      
>> 6 months
>> Policy's permitted embargo length for humanities and social sciences:        
>> 12 months
>> Can maximal allowable embargo length be waived?:     Yes
>> Open licensing conditions:   Other
>> Gold OA publishing option:   Permitted alternative to Green self-archiving
>> Funding for APCs where charged by journals:  Funder provides specific 
>> additional funding for APCs
>> APC fund URL (where available):      
>> http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/researchsupport/openaccess/funding.aspx 
>> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/researchsupport/openaccess/funding.aspx>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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