DSpace-CRIS is a recently released research information management system that combines the agile Open Access content management provided by the DSpace repository platform with additional CERIF-compliant CRIS features (CRIS: Current Research Information System) built on top. These include basic CERIF entities like persons, organisations and projects. Being at the same time a repository and a CRIS system, DSpace-CRIS may both be considered (and used like) an enhanced repository and an open source CRIS.

This contribution will describe the way the DSpace-CRIS platform has been configured to serve the purposes of an organisation quite different from those which usually run institutional repositories, ie universities and research centres. Specific project aspects will be addressed such as the advantages provided by the internal character of the documentation which relieves the initiative from copyright-related concerns, the vast improvement in euroCRIS output visibility achieved by the sheer metadata assignation to existing files hidden in the organisation's CMS or the opportunities offered by the CRIS side of the platform to improve euroCRIS administration.

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

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