Research Output Publications and CRIS

Publications still are regarded as a major measure of R&D output. Debates rage over the relative quality of publications in journals, conference proceedings, book chapters, the media. Grey literature is emerging as an important component. Despite the move of journals and conference publications to electronic versions accessed online, rising prices and reducing library budgets are revolutionizing the market: eprints and self-archiving extended with e-annotated peer-review are preferred in some disciplines. CERIF 2000 provided only linking relations from project, person and orgunit to a publication primary key which in turn linked to the URI (as URL or conventional reference) of the publication. Since 2000 there has been discussion on how best to represent research publication output. This paper presents a proposal involving classification and annotation for statistical review of research output and improved quality of grey literature respectively.