16.05.2018
Enriching metadata of an institutional research repository: Mining grey literature/technical reports for research funding-related information
« (…) As it becomes increasingly important for research organizations to show the impact of their research to donor agencies, grey literature/technical reports can serve as a valuable source of information of an organization to complement the missing or incomplete funding acknowledgements in their research information management systems (RIMs). In addition, grey literature can serve as a means to bridge the delay between the research activities and their publication or even the possibility that some research may never be published.
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how funding-related information can be extracted from grey literature through text mining and incorporated into the corresponding field of MARC 21 bibliographic records of an institutional research repository of an international agricultural research and development organization for further analysis of its funding and research trends. (…) »
