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Try out this selection of research information systems!

Directory of Research Information Systems

This directory is set-up by NIWI. NIWI, the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services, is an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

Did you already register your CRIS in this directory?

http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/cgi-bin/nph-dris_search.pl

Intra-national CRISs

Access via "European Current Research Information Systems"

This homepage provides a map-based access to research information systems in European countries.

http://www.nsd.uib.no/english/research/eucris/

Additionally, access is provided to:

  • CORDIS, the Community R&D Information Service see description below
    http://cordis.europa.eu

  • Canadian Community of Science
    The Community of Science World Wide Web server contains information about scientific Expertise, funded scientific research, and funding opportunities for research.
    http://best.gdb.org/work/best-dbs-canada.html

  • Funded Research in U.S.
    http://cos.gdb.org/best/fed-fund.html

  • JGRIP
    The JGRIP File (Japanese Government and Public Research in Progress) is a bibliographic database with English citations and abstracts covering current and recently completed research by public research organizations in Japan. The file contains current on-going research and research completed within the past five years.
    Producer: The Japan Science and Technology Corporation,
    http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/stn/Databases/jgrip.html



CORDIS, the Community R&D Information Service

CORDIS provides information on a vast range of research, development and innovation activities undertaken on a European level.

http://cordis.europa.eu

CORDIS offers

  • Research databases different types of research databases, including a searchable document library
  • Background and policy information on EU RTD and innovation
  • Homepages of specific research programmes



Eureka

EUREKA promotes pan-European, market- oriented research and development across almost 30 European countries
http://www.eureka.be/



European Science Foundation

http://www.esf.org/active_p.htm



Useful links to a wide range of international organizations

http://www.esf.org/other.htm



TII

http://www.tub.at/tii/secret/trn/index.htm



European Patent Office

http://www.european-patent-office.org/epo/

Patent information products

http://www.european-patent-office.org/index.htm



EuRaTIN

European Research and Technology Information Network
http://www.euratin.net



Multilingual Information Society Programme

- Multilingual Information Society Projects:
http://www2.echo.lu/mlis/projects/mlisprojects.html



Turning Innovation Into Business: PROSOMA - Esprit

The PROSOMA esprit service helps to increase the industrial impact of the Esprit programme by bridging the gap between research and the marketplace, and by facilitating access to and uptake of research results.
http://www.prosoma.lu/



VIPS
a scientific press service on research results (5 languages)

The VIPS services offers users up-to-date information on RTD projects in various fields, including: energy, the environment, information and communications technologies, industrial and materials technologies, life sciences and technologies. It can be accessed using the URL:
/VIP/vip.pl?language=en&sort=s&node=/



Also have a look to the specific programme homepages on CORDIS!

/info/frames/if006_en.htm




Access to individual CRISs on national/regional level

Australia

Australian Science, Technology and Engineering Council
http://astec.gov.au/

International links

offered by the Australian Science, Technology and Engineering Council:
http://www.dist.gov.au/science/astec/astec/auslinks.html#internat/

Austria

Data exchange on research projects and institutions

http://derpi.tuwien.ac.at/

Innovation Relay Centres

/irc/src/whoswho/3_01_1.htm

Belgium

IWETO: Flemish Research Information

http://www.vlaanderen.be/IWETO/DOCS/thema_pag.html

Innovation Relay Centres

/irc/src/whoswho/be.htm

Bulgaria

FELLOW MEMBER TO THE INNOVATION RELAY CENTRES Bulgaria

/irc/src/whoswho/bg.htm

Canada

Canadian Community of Science

The Community of Science World Wide Web server contains information about scientific Expertise, funded scientific research, and funding opportunities for research. http://best.gdb.org/work/best-dbs-canada.html

Croatia

Rudjer Boskovic Institute

http://nippur.irb.hr/

Czech Republic

CEP - Czech Central Register of Research Projects

http://www.vlada.cz/

FELLOW MEMBER TO THE INNOVATION RELAY CENTRES

/irc/src/whoswho/cs.htm

Denmark

DANDOK

The DANDOK Database presents an overall picture of research in progress and published Danish research.
http://www.risoe.dk/dandokbas/

Research focused on field experiments with release of liquified gases in Risø, Denmark

http://www.risoe.dk/vea-atu/densegas/

Innovation Relay Centres

/irc/src/whoswho/dk.htm

Estonia

FELLOW MEMBER TO THE INNOVATION RELAY CENTRES

/irc/src/whoswho/ee.htm

Finland

Forest Cluster Projects

http://www.forestcluster.fi/

Innovation Relay Centres

/irc/src/whoswho/fi.htm

Finnish Forest Cluster

http://www.sordino.fi/klusteri/klusteri.nsf/

France

TELELEB

TELELAB - 7000 LABORATOIRES DE RECHERCHE
http://www.mesr.fr/telelab/telelab.cfm

INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

INRA Scientific Database Servers
http://www.inra.fr/ENG/PRODUCTIONS/DATABASES/index.html

ANRT

Association Nationale de la Recherche Technique (ANRT)
http://www.anrt.asso.fr/
http://www.anrt.asso.fr/Europe/

CNRS

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
http://www.urec.fr/

Innovation Relay Centres

/irc/src/whoswho/fr.htm

Germany

STN

STN Databases in Science, Technology, Patents, and Business
http://www.physik.uni-regensburg.de/edv/stn/abstracts/onlin_db.html

ZENIT

Partner search and technology offers:
http://www.zenit.de/english/koopstrte.html

KoWi
Information service for German Researchers

KoWi - Koordinierungsstelle EG der Wissenschaftsorganisationen (Brussels/Bonn) is the EU liasion office of the German research organisations. As an information manager, KoWi provides information on European research funding and services for German researchers.
KoWi: http://www.kowi.de

ELFI

ELectronical Research Funding Information
http://www.elfi.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/elfi/eng-elfi.html

Innovation Relay Centres

/irc/src/whoswho/de.htm

DAINet - German Agricultural Information Network

DAINet is a product of the German Centre for Documentation and Agriculture (ZADI). The German Centre for Documentation and Information in Agriculture (ZADI) is the main scientific information institution of the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry (BML).

http://www.dainet.de/ (German and English version)

The ZADI gives advice and support in all questions of information management for the BML and for the federal research centres associated with the ministry as well as for the institutes of the Science Association Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (WGL).

http://www.zadi.de/

Forschung, Kunst, Wissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs und ihre Förderung

http://www.uni-kassel.de/wiss_tr/

Scientific Information, Department of Support of Scientific Research

http://www.uni-kassel.de/wiss_tr/adamengl.html

Information zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Forschung zwisches Ost und West

http://www.uni-kassel.de/wiss_tr/owwz/ost-west-ff/

Documentation zur Germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschungsvorhaben

http://www.ids-mannheim.de/oea/forsch/

Informationszentrum Sozialwissenschaften (IZ)

http://www.bonn.iz-soz.de/

Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe

http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/

Fraunhofer Gesellschaft

http://www.fhg.de/english.html

German Industry's Technical and Business information Center

http://www.fiz-technik.de/

Technological Innovations from Germany

DIHT/IHK
This is a searchable database for technology offers and requests
http://www.ulm.ihk.de/ihk/e_tdb.html

Greece

National Documentation Centre

http://www.ekt.org.gr/NDC/ndchome.htm

Innovation Relay Centres

/irc/src/whoswho/gr.htm

FORTHnet

FORTHnet is the first, largest and most advanced multiprotocol computer network for providing networking services in Greece. It is the evolution of the initial networking services that the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of Foundation For Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) offered to the Greek academic and research community since 1984
http://www.forthnet.gr/hellas/

ARIADNE

This server is located at Ariadne's Net Operations Center in Athens, Greece.

ARIADNE is operated by NCSR Demokritos , the oldest and largest Physics and Sciences Research establishment in Greece.
http://hellas.ariadne-t.gr/

Greek Academic Research and Computer Network
http://www.ariadne-t.gr/

General Secretariat of Research and Technology

Home page of the General Secretariat of Research and Technology (Ministry of Development). Information relative to the national research projects funded and supervised by GSRT is provided.
http://www.gsrt.gr/

National Hellenic Research Foundation

Home page of the National Hellenic Research Foundation. This site is currently under development and only in greek. The english version will be available in the next months.
http://www.eie.gr/

Multilingual lexicography

http://egnatia.ee.auth.gr/~ yhat/yiannis/

Hungary

FELLOW MEMBER TO THE INNOVATION RELAY CENTRES

/irc/src/whoswho/hu.htm

Iceland

The Icelandic Current Research Information System

The Icelandic Current Research Information System provides access to information on Icelandic research projects andR&D results.

The founders are the Icelandic Research Council, University of Iceland and IceTec.
http://www.ris.is/index_eng.html

Innovation Relay Centre

/irc/src/whoswho/is.htm

Ireland

FORBAIRT

FORBAIRT is an organisation established by the Government to provide services to Irish Industry across a wide range of commercial activities including management development, innovation, R&D, finance and technology transfer.
http://www.forbairt.ie/

Innovation Relay Centre

/irc/src/whoswho/ie.htm

Irish Research Scientists' Association

The IRSA exists to promote excellence in scientific research in Ireland: it is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations interested in this aim.
http://www.physics.dcu.ie/

Israel

INDARD

INDARD is the database of academic R&D in Israel.
http://www.israd.ac.il/INDARD/

Innovation Relay Centre

/irc/src/whoswho/il.htm

Italy

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

http://www.cnr.it/

Innovation Relay Centres

/irc/src/whoswho/it.htm

Japan

Japanese Government and Public Research in Progress

http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/stn/Databases/jgrip.html

Latavia

FELLOW MEMBER TO THE INNOVATION RELAY CENTRES

/irc/src/whoswho/lv.htm

Lithuania

FELLOW MEMBER TO THE INNOVATION RELAY CENTRES

/irc/src/whoswho/lt.htm

Luxembourg

Innovation Relay Centre

/irc/src/whoswho/lu.htm

The Netherlands

Dutch Research Database

http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/us/nod.htm

CWTS

Centre for Science - and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University - The Netherlands
http://sahara.fsw.leidenuniv.nl/

Innovation Relay Centres

/irc/src/whoswho/nl.htm

Norway

Information on research and higher education

http://www.nsd.uib.no/english/research/

Norwegian Current Research Database

http://taxus.uib.no/fnsig/forsk/welcome.html

Innovation Relay Centres

/irc/src/whoswho/no.htm

Poland

RTD related information for Poland

http://www.ibspan.waw.pl/HyperText/INDIS/indis.html

FELLOW MEMBER TO THE INNOVATION RELAY CENTRES

/irc/src/whoswho/pl.htm

Portugal

Innovation Relay Centres

http://www.adi.pt

Slovenia

FELLOW MEMBER TO THE INNOVATION RELAY CENTRES

/irc/src/whoswho/si.htm

Slovak Republic

FELLOW MEMBER TO THE INNOVATION RELAY CENTRES

/irc/src/whoswho/sr.htm

Spain

Bases de Datos Documentales

http://www.cicyt.es/wais.html

Innovation Relay Centre

/irc/src/whoswho/es.htm

Sweden

Swedish Current Research Information System

http://cris.ldc.lu.se/

Swedish EC/R&D Council

http://www.eufou.se/english/serviceindex_english.html

Innovation Relay Centres

/irc/src/whoswho/se.htm

Switzerland

Swiss Education & Research Sites Map

http://www.switch.ch/edu/edu-map.html

United Kingdom

Joint Home Page of the UK Research Councils

http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research-councils/

United Kingdom Council Presidency R&D Information Service

/uk/en/home.html

Innovation relay Centres

/irc/src/whoswho/gb.htm

The Wales Innovation Relay Centre - Technology Transfer Service

The Technology Transfer Group is a specialist arm of the WDA devoted to helping businesses succeed through the application, management and development of technology.
http://www.wda.co.uk/business/techtran/index.htm

Cartermill's Research & Development Information Web Site

http://rdi.cartermill.com/

United States

Funded Research in U.S.

http://cos.gdb.org/best/fed-fund.html

Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) - US

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program funds small businesses, through a phased bid and award program, in their completion of high-tech research and development work identified by Federal agencies.

Interesting in the SBIR approach is that they focus on commercial development and application of the results
http://earth2.epa.gov/business/sbir1.html




Global access to research information systems per domain or country

International links

offered by the Australian Science, Technology and Engineering Council:
http://www.dist.gov.au/science/astec/astec/auslinks.html#internat/

The Virtual Library: Science

http://vlib.stanford.edu/Science.html

The Virtual Library: Engineering

http://vlib.stanford.edu/Engineering.html

Global links also can be found via:

http://www.urec.fr/France/web_monde.html

Links per country:

http://vlib.stanford.edu/Servers.html