System Table

Related systems used in each institution

This chart allows a quick comparison of what systems are being used, and how they might integrate. Members can also see which repositories are like theirs so they can contact each other.

Background

• Repositories are used to provide information about research publications to the Australian government. Close links with research management systems are necessary to provide this information. What Research Management systems are being used?
• There is also much interest in using repositories to provide profiles and portfolios. Some HR systems offer academics ways of creating their own portfolios. What HR systems are being used?
• OpenURL is one way of providing links to full content. What institutions are using or intend to use OpenURL?
• What database/platform are you using? eg. Oracle or MySQL / Solaris or Linux
• What VITAL version are you currently using?
• What date did you go live?
• How many objects are in your repository?
• Do the academics or assistants use Valet to input their works? yes or no

Institution	Research system software	HR System	OpenURL Yes/No	Database Platform	Production Version of VITAL	Live? If so, date?	Total Objects Loaded	Self Submission Using Valet	Comments
Ballarat University	ResearchMaster	Empower	SFX	Oracle		No
Central Queensland University	In-house FileMakerPro. Have just purchased ResearchMaster	Alesco	Yes - ArticleLinker	Oracle/Solaris	3.2	Yes but CQU only	2,252(mostly metadata)	Yes
La Trobe University	Research Master	SAP	Yes - SFX	MySQL / RedHatLinux4	3.1.1	N	12,500 metadata only	N
Macquarie University	Research Master	Concept	Yes - 360 Link	MySQL/RedHatLinux	3.1.1	N	142
Monash University	Research Master	SAP	Yes - SFX		2.1	2006	2400	VALET in development
Murdoch University	InHouse ACV system	Alesco	Yes - SFX	Oracle	3.1.1	Development server			RUBRIC Central will be testing the data migration from the ACV system to VITAL
Queensland University of Technology	Research Master
Swinburne University of Technology	Research Master	Alesco	Yes - SFX	Oracle	3.3.4	2006	10410 (16% full text)	In development
University of New England	Callista Research (over Oracle)	Concept (over Oracle)	Yes - SFX	MySQL, Red Hat Enterprise release 4 (64-bit)	3.1.1	21/4/08	1131 with 6 pending	Under development
University of New South Wales	Research Master	PeopleSoft	Yes - SFX	MySQL/RedHatLinux	3.3.2	2007	3831	Yes
University of Newcastle	Callista	Concept		MySQL/RedHatLinux
University of South Australia	Research Master	EmpowerHR	Yes - ArticleLinker	MySQL/Solaris	3.1.1	26 April 2007	2879 citations, 287 PDF files (mostly theses), 127 JPGs	Yes
University of the Sunshine Coast	InHouse - FileMakerPro		Yes - Article Linker		3.1.1	COAST RESEARCH DATABASE Launched November 2007.	1200 citations. Limited full-text - this is the next step.	On the cards for 2008	Data batch import from our Office of Research DEST HERDC data (from FileMakerPro)
University of Western Sydney	In-house FileMakerPro	Alesco	Not at this stage. UWS has Article Linker	Solaris	2.1.2		690 full text theses in 2.1.2. In dev 3.0, 700 FT theses, 600 journal citations pending addition of fulltext |Not at this stage	We plan to batch ingest the RQF data and objects into 3x and look at self-submission as a next stage