Presenter: Barbara Lancho Barrantes, University of Leeds Discussant: Ismael Rafols, University of Leiden Abstract Sustainable Development Goals have recently entered our lives and made us to realise how important they are for the development of our society. With this work, I intend to show the trends in scholarly communication about Sustainable Development Goals using Dimensions database. Has there been a proliferation of Preprints? Alternatively, Journals continue occupying their star role? How open access means have…
RISIS was presented for the first time to the Czech research community and policy-makers during the national conference on STI statistics and analyses, held on 26 April 2019. This annual conference has been organized jointly by the Technology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Czech Statistical Office since 2010. The audience traditionally consists of leading research and innovation policy makers from various Czech ministries, agencies, and other governmental bodies, as well…
RISIS will land in Ghent, on 27 and 28 May 2019, with a poster presentation for the workshop “Research policy monitoring in the era of open science and big data”. The two-day workshop, coorganised by OpenAIRE and Data4Impact, with support of Science Europe, will explore mechanisms for research policy monitoring and indicators, and how to link these to infrastructure and services. The first day will focus on open science indicators as these emerge from…
Which is the structure of RISIS? RISIS contains 12 datasets that will integrate with four new datasets dealing with important lasting research and policy issues: Three datasets concern world largest firms (CIB2), European venture capital (VICO) and fast growing mid-sized firms (Cheetah); Two datasets deal with European trans-border programmes (EUPRO e JoREP); One Register on European public research actors, ORGREG, which serves as repository, on universities, PROs and university hospitals; Output datasets of knowledge…
“Knowledge is the currency of the new economy”: with this sentence, that marks the beginning of a document released by the European Commission in 2012, is started a flow of policy reports focusing on open access to the results of research. Recently, also RISIS has gained a relevant step towards open access world, to reduce asymmetries in actors who produce new knowledge, in the places where knowledge is generated, and in the issues addressed.…
