1. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk UKOLN is supported by: RIM support/UK CERIF landscape overview JISC RIM: CERIF workshop Bristol, 27-28 June 2012 Rosemary Russell, Innovation Support Centre, UKOLN, University of Bath

2. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk JISC Innovation Support Centre at UKOLN Includes support for JISC Research Information Management Programme eg –workshops liaison with euroCRIS –supporting documentation for JISC Calls –project syntheses –blog posts –CERIF resources –landscape studies

3. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk Adoption of CERIF in Higher Education Institutions in the UK: A Landscape Study (March 2012 ) CRIS procurement in UK has increased rapidly since 2009 –eg first UK Pure system procured in May 2009, now 19 users only one in-house development as a result, CERIF has been widely adopted: ~31% of UK HEIs http://isc.ukoln.ac.uk/work/rim/

4. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk euroCRIS institutional membership: reflects UK CRIS activity…

5. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk However many institutions are not engaging with CERIF experience of CERIF mediated by CRIS software used most have basic understanding of CERIF rely on vendor, and expertise in UK user groups only JISC projects are properly engaging with CERIF many are keen to engage more (lack time, REF…) –concern that lack of understanding will hinder their CRIS use CERIF expertise beneficial for CRIS implementation process, enabling better exploitation, challenging vendors…

6. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk Will IRs be replaced by CRIS? ongoing debate – –can institutional repository functionality be replaced by CRIS? some institutions already taken this route – KCL, Bristol… most have integrated IR with CRIS –one exception (because of mapping overhead) several maintaining watching brief