“With the Science Portal, the work of UL researchers becomes more visible than ever before. It will promote recognition of researchers and their scientific contribution not only in the international scientific community, but also within the University and in Latvian society. The portal makes it possible to compile researchers’ results and make them conveniently accessible both to cooperation partners and to the wider public,” emphasizes UL Vice-Rector for Research Guntars Kitenbergs.
The Science Portal (zinatne.lu.lv) is the public part of UL’s research information management system (RIMS), based on the internationally widely used system Pure. In Europe and elsewhere in the world, it is already used by more than 400 higher education institutions.
The portal ensures structured data recording and supports management and reportaing processes. This system brings together all of an institution’s research information in one place. High-quality data integration provides greater control over the data, helping institutions make well-founded decisions based on reliable data in accordance with applicable regulatory enactments, and also serves as a basis for generating reports, ensuring transparency, and conducting in-depth analytics—including the responsible use of artificial intelligence.
In Latvia, the portal will also be used for submitting data to the Ministry of Education and Science. The portal enables efficient registration and analysis of research results by synchronising data with international registers and databases, including ORCID, Scopus and Web of Science.
“Until now, it was difficult to fully showcase UL’s research capacity in one place—information was located in various sources and was not uniformly accessible. Now it will be easy to enter it into a single system, which will help the University and researchers easily compile and present their achievements, moreover in a broader sense, i.e., including all scientific output, not only publications and projects. We hope that UL researchers will feel the difference—it will be much easier to review what they have done in one place, present the results of their work, and highlight their impact,” notes Director of the UL Science Department Antra Boča.
The Science Portal in Latvian is available at zinatne.lu.lv, and in English at research.lu.lv.
The implementation of the UL Science Portal at the University of Latvia is one of the activities within the project “Internal and External Consolidation of the University of Latvia” (No. 5.2.1.1.i.0/2/24/I/CFLA/007), supported by the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism.
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