Congratulations to Keith and Alicia for bringing this agreement together.
I'm very pleased to see this organisational partnership, as it reflects the huge importance of the CRIS-Repository partnership in the UK. Having the dialog that will improve the way our systems work together is an obvious step in improving our research support environments and hence empowering our researchers!
As well as more joined-up-technology I look forward to more joined-up-thinking about how the University sector manages its knowledge outputs, supporting all research stakeholders, including producers, consumers, managers, administrators, funders and traders.
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Les Carr
EPrints / University of Southampton
On 21 Nov 2012, at 10:46, "Mueller, Katharina" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
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The World Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and euroCRIS are pleased to announce their recently established strategic partnership. As a first step, a Memorandum of Understanding has been signed at the euroCRIS members meeting in Madrid/Spain on November 6, 2012. The partnership will be based on the mutual understanding of the importance of Open Access to research results and the need for appropriate mechanisms for ensuring this. Specific attention will be paid to the domain of interoperability between different systems such as OA repositories and CRIS to ensure appropriate management of research results. Therefore, an exchange and joint work will be set up between euroCRIS’s task group on Institutional Repositories and COAR’s working group on interoperability.
Keith Jeffery, President of euroCRIS, notes: “This collaboration is a great opportunity to develop further our network of expertise and strengthen the common goal of building up an architecture of interoperation.” Alicia Lopez Medina, Executive Director of COAR, adds: “We are looking forward to close beneficial relationships with our colleagues from the CRIS community. This will foster our activities working on a roadmap for interoperability to support the global visibility of research outputs through networks of Open Access repositories linked with CERIF-CRIS systems.”
About euroCRIS
euroCRIS is a not-for-profit organisation, dedicated to the development of quality CRISs (Current Research Information Systems) enabling a wide-scale interoperability. In particular it is mandated by the EC to support, develop and promote CERIF (Common European Research Information Format) which is an EU recommendation to Member States.
More information about euroCRIS and its members is available at www.eurocris.org<http://www.eurocris.org/> .
About COAR
The World Confederation of Open Access Repositories is an international association of Open Access repository initiatives and networks, envisioning a global knowledge infrastructure. It aims to facilitate greater visibility and application of research through a global network of open access repositories, based on interoperability and international cooperation.
More information about COAR and its members is available at the http://coar-repositories.org<http://coar-repositories.org/> .
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