Norway 4.7 mill inhabitants Not member of EU, but associated

1. ”The Jostein Hauge Session”Norwegian Scientific Index – one stop shop to Norwegian ResearchAnne Asserson Tor Øyvind Fosse

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3. Norway 4.7 mill inhabitants • Not member of EU, but associated • City of Bergen has 200.000 inhabitants • University of Bergen • 3000 staff • 15.000 students • Research areas are within all disciplines. Priority on • marine sciences • climate • petroleum euroCRIS members meeting, Athens May 13th 2009

4. University of Bergen

5. Shape of the national CRIS • Assesment of the Universities • Norwegian Scientific Index – one stop shop euroCRIS members meeting, Athens May 13th 2009

6. PROJECT ORGUNIT PERSON Result_Publication Shape of the Norwegian CRIS Patent Thesis euroCRIS members meeting, Athens May 13th 2009

7. Shape of the national CRIS • Assesment of the Universities • Norwegian Scientific Index - one stop shop euroCRIS members meeting, Athens May 13th 2009

8. Assesment of the Universities Part of universities budgets based on performance based indicators • encourage the institution to reach the goals that are set bu the Quality reform and the Council for Universities • financing at the institutional level • simple, easy to understand and predictable Important – high quality euroCRIS members meeting, Athens May 13th 2009

9. Oversikt euroCRIS members meeting, Athens May 13th 2009

10. Level 2 20 % of the publication gives higher score, especially chosen channels nominated by the national scholarly advisory board after given indicators. Level 1 80% of the publication gives normal score euroCRIS members meeting, Athens May 13th 2009

11. Article in a ISSN-title/ Article in journal Level 1 ( 1 ) Level 2 ( 3 ) Article in a ISBN-title/ Chapter in anthology Level 1 (0.7) Level 2 ( 1 ) ISBN-title / Monography Level 1 ( 5 ) Level 2 ( 8 ) euroCRIS members meeting, Athens May 13th 2009

12. Authors parts • If more than one author, the publication value is divided on the number of authors. • If an author has more than one address, then the publications is divided on the number of addresses • a scholarly publication never have the value of 1 (one) • only scholarly results are reported to the Ministry euroCRIS members meeting, Athens May 13th 2009

13. Definition of Scholarly as used in Frida (Frascati ) Publication has to: 1.Present new knowledge 2. Be in a form that makes it possible to verify or useful as input to new research. 3. be in a form that enables dissemination of knowledge. 4. veracity/validity through a peer validation process or by satisfying the commercial publisher processes (journal, series, publisher, website) euroCRIS members meeting, Athens May 13th 2009

14. Research Information in Norway • Assesment of the Universities • Norwegian Scientific Index - one stop shop euroCRIS members meeting, Athens May 13th 2009

15. Norwegian Sicentific Index . • Proposal for one national CRIS for scholarly publication • Report from a working group appointed by the Ministry of Education and Research, 2008 • A joint database for all institutions that do research • Will be further developed on FRIDA • The institutions will report as they have previously. No change. • Will give a improved tool to enhance the quality of data for reporting. euroCRIS members meeting, Athens May 13th 2009

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17. Frida does not include all the research institution such as • University hospitals where many of the researchers belongs both to the university and the hospital • The hospitals are organized in 10 regional units • 100 individual research institution • 25 state colleges • other smaller units The Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research would like a on stop shop for Norwegian research euroCRIS members meeting, Athens May 13th 2009

18. What is new in Norwegain Science Index? • New architecture • Universities and Hospitals recording of results are often overlapping. • Reporting to two different ministry, Education and research and Ministry of Health • From virtual databases for each institution • one database to avoid duplication of records • Change in quality assurance of the records • co-authored records from different institutions has to be validated by each institution euroCRIS members meeting, Athens May 13th 2009

19. (Old)Structure of Frida • Logical databases for each institution • Shared data: journals, publishers, lists,….. • Equal weighting of type of publication, channel and co-authorship • Duplicates euroCRIS members meeting, Athens May 13th 2009

20. (New)Structure of Frida • One database • Shared data: journals, publishers, lists,….. • Equal weighting of type of publication, channel and co-authorship • No duplicates euroCRIS members meeting, Athens May 13th 2009

21. Experience of the use of the indicator Financing on bases of result output (null sum game) Co-authoring (is not really encouraged in the model) Quality of data (improving) Advantage of no parallel solutions Transparency and visibility Results at level 1 and 2 is relative stable Experience after 5 years with Frida euroCRIS members meeting, Athens May 13th 2009

22. A new CRIS will give a better system with improved functionality and options and a one stop shop to Norwegian research. • Thank you for the attention! euroCRIS members meeting, Athens May 13th 2009