BoRIS and BIA: CRIS and Institutional Repository Integration at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

This paper describes the implementation at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (FUB) of a Current Research Information System named BoRIS (Bozen-Bolzano Research Information System, an implementation of Avedas Converis 5 software) integrated not only with locally developed Human Resource Information (HRIS) and Financial systems (PIS) but also with an Institutional Repository BIA (Bozen-Bolzano Institutional Archive, an hosted instance of open source software DSpace 3.2) and the publication database of the Italian Ministry for Education, Universities and Research “Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca, MIUR”.