CURIS

University of Copenhagen Research Information System

The challenge

- Research is the responsibility of researchers not administrators

- Researchers at the University of Copenhagen are among the best researchers in the world – we know that

- null-researchers?

Most researchers (and others) gets only one original idea - normally before they are 30 years old: The trick is to reproduce it in a lifetime.

The University is often compared to a supertanker: it takes a while to redirect it.

The Research Information System is supposed to help finding the right direction through-making priorities on an informed background-Pointing out weaknesses and strenghts in research-Identifying potential-Plus a number of other buzzwords from NPM

In reality the university is more like a big number of tugs puling the university-vessel in all directions.

-Establish the argument for a common research informations system from the ground level

-Top-down – bottom-up structure

-Incitaments

-Identify common interests

The Research Informations system is not a library system

Full integration with existing systems and webstructure

Avoid redundancy

Recycling of informations

Annual ”research tax form”

A quick SWOT

The University act 2003 – Dissemination as a third main purposse of the university

Barcelona goals

Experiences and expectations of the younger scientists

The existing publication base proved to be inefficient

The University of Copenhagen

The University of Copenhagen:2.500 Researchers6 Faculties:-Humanities-Science-Health Science-Social Science-Law-Theology33.000 Students1.000 ph.d. studentsAnnual turnover 3,700 millions DKK

Basic structure

University

Faculty

Institute

Publication

Researcher

Projects and research cooperation

Dissemination

SEARCH

GUI

Researcher

Institute

Faculty

University

Society

Overview

Where are we

Analysis Development Implementation

2004 20062005

CURIS

web

PURE

University databases