Sweden ScienceNet A national Current Research Information System for Sweden Mats Ola Ottosson, Uppsala University Åke Johansson, Uppsala University Agneta Ringaby, The Swedish Research Council NUAS Conference August Communication Challenges for Nordic Universities

Outline The Swedish research system Other research information projects Development of Sweden ScienceNet The Universities take over Sweden ScienceNet System description Use of the system Ongoing and future development Next step for Sweden ScienceNet

Share of externally funded research

Outline The Swedish research system Other research information projects Development of Sweden ScienceNet The Universities take over Sweden ScienceNet System description Use of the system Ongoing and future development Next step for Sweden ScienceNet

Other projects Safari (1998 – 2002) – Audience too broad – Lack of incentive for the researchers – Few users, high cost Forskning.se ( ) – News and information about research results – Adds comprehensive summaries – Today owned by 10 research funding bodies

Attempts to collect and present information on current research in Sweden have had difficulties. Sweden ScienceNet was created with the expressed ambition to reuse existing information, especially quality assured information, from the funding bodies through as automatic means as possible.

A brief history of Sweden ScienceNet 2003 – The LIFT-project – Universities in Stockholm, Vinnova and Avedas – Life science only 2005 – Sweden ScienceNet 1.0 – Analysis of audiences information needs – Reuse and structure existing information – Make it useful for the universities

Sweden ScienceNet 2.0 Overall goal – a national infrastructure for managing research information – Better tools for planning, analysis and reporting – Make research competencies accessible – Add one more field of science – Include large funders – Include universities doing significant research within life science – Contribute to a more efficient granst process from application to awarding Project manager: Stockholm Science City Industry partner: Avedas

Project results Extensive data inventory Information needs analysis All fields of science Web portal presenting current research at Swedish universities (project grants from 2 major funders) Preliminary dialogue with more funders

Outline The Swedish research system Other research information projects Development of Sweden ScienceNet The Universities take over Sweden ScienceNet System description Use of the system Ongoing and future development Next step for Sweden ScienceNet

Steering committee for Sweden ScienceNet 2011 UniversityCommittee member Chalmers tekniska högskolaJonas Gilbert Göteborgs universitetHans Abelius Karolinska InstitutetKatarina Drakenberg Kungliga Tekniska högskolanGunnar Lager Linköpings universitetIngegerd Baurén Lunds universitetKlas Malmqvist Stockholms universitetHans Adolfsson Sveriges lantbruksuniversitetLasse Thorell Umeå universitetRupali Bhalerao Uppsala universitet Mats Ola Ottosson Chairman: Björn O. Nilsson, Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien Secretary: Åke Johansson, Uppsala universitet

Four governmental funding agencies Swedish Research Council Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS) Swedish Research Council Formas Vinnova

Four governmental funding agencies + two non-governmental Swedish Research Council Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS) Swedish Research Council Formas Vinnova Foundation for Strategic Research Riksbankens Jubileumsfond

Project data from funding agencies Project data are exposed from Vetenskapsrådet FAS Formas Vinnova Stiftelsen för strategisk forskning Riksbankens jubileumsfond Test data have been provided by Ragnar Söderbergs stiftelse Naturvårdsverket Rymdstyrelsen Cancerfonden IFAU Discussions are ongoing with Energimyndigheten Sida Strålsäkerhetsmyndigheten Mistra KK-stiftelsen Göran Gustafssons stiftelse Wallenbergsstiftelserna Handelsbanksstiftelserna Åke Wibergs stiftelse EU-kommissionen Nordiska ministerrådet

Outline The Swedish research system Other research information projects Development of Sweden ScienceNet The Universities take over Sweden ScienceNet System description Use of the system Ongoing and future development Next step for Sweden ScienceNet

Sweden ScienceNet today contains Information about grants-funded research conducted at Swedish universities Ca projects and researchers Projects starting 2008 and later Data categorized according the Swedish standard for classification of research topics

Information gathered Programme of funding organization Project number Project title Abstract / Summary Classification according to OECD’s Fields of Science Date of project start Date of project end Funding per year Project leader / Coordinator Host institution for project leader Collaborators in the project Host institutions for collaborators.

Funding bodies Sweden ScienceNet Universities Approved grants applications Data about internally funded projects Reporting tool + API Public website (

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37 Filter criteria Period: Organisation: Uppsala universitet Thematic area: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Overview Contracts: 60 Total requested funding: 273,385,000 Total awarded funding: 140,242,750

38 Report criteria: Organization: Uppsala universitet Thematic area: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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Use of Sweden ScienceNet Universities – Management at different levels – Departments of planning and information – Grants offices / departments for financing of research – Research group leaders and individual researchers – Connections to other systems (e. g. publications) Ministries and governmental agencies Funding organisations Industry The general public

Visitors statistics 40% of visits from Sweden Germany, US, UK, India, France, Finland, China Typical user finds a project description via Google Swedish visitors tend to visit the researcher pages, other nationalities visit project pages

Ongoing and future development Data from more funding bodies – Increase todays 50 % to 80 % and more Implement standards for better interoperability – Classify according to the new Swedish standard – Adopt CERIF (or at least export in CERIF-XML) Extending the system – SwePub – Local integrations – New system for common application submission and application assessment

Recap A current research information system accessible on the Internet developed with active university participation and partly with university funding contains data about research projects in which researchers are involved rapidly growing in content does not require any input from the researchers contains high quality data from public and private funding agencies can be connected to other national information systems can be used together with local systems for research information recently taken over by the Swedish Research Council

Outline The Swedish research system Other research information projects Development of Sweden ScienceNet The Universities take over Sweden ScienceNet System description Use of the system Ongoing and future development Next step for Sweden ScienceNet