UK SBS BLOJEU-CR17083MRC The Supply of Bibliometric Data

Tender description

The final date and time for the submission of bids is 10/08/2017 at 14:00 DO NOT apply directly to the buyer. The MRC and STFC regularly monitor, evaluate and report on successes and the outcomes, outputs and impact of the research they support. To better understand how funded research leads to economic, societal and academic impact, all MRC and STFC-funded researchers are required to provide feedback on the impact of their work via an online system called researchfish® . These data are supplemented with additional information from other sources, such as bibliometric analysis. Combined, these datasets provide a detailed picture of the progress, productivity and quality of the science the organisations support. This includes developing new medicines and technologies, improving clinical policies and practices, and encouraging inward investment to the UK. The main reason for this tender exercise is to update, or if necessary replace, the bibliometric data that the MRC and STFC hold on publications arising from the research they have funded since 2006. Objectives Each year the MRC and STFC ask researchers that have been funded to provide details of any publications that have arisen as a result of their funding. Researchers provide this feedback via the researchfish® system for capturing research outputs . Researchfish returns were last submitted in February/March 2017, the resulting data has been checked for completeness, and a unique set of publication records assembled. The MRC/STFC require a supplier who can: • Match the new records of publications to an established international database of bibliographic data. • Ensure all records have the fullest set of metadata available (e.g. whether papers are peer reviewed or other types of articles, full author details, author locations, open access status, funder information, identifiers such as DOI, categorisation for scientific field) • Provide citation data for all records (number of citations, expected citations, normalised citation impact weighted for scientific field) Provide citation data for a number of comparator organisations/countries at aggregate level. To date the MRC and STFC have acquired these data separately, but as their needs are similar it is felt that advantages, and economies of scale, might be gained, by combining their requirements into a single acquisition.There are, however, differences in recent suppliers of these data to the two organisations. The STFC has always had its publications matched to the Web of Science (WoS) dataset. For the MRC, data was also matched to WoS up to 2015, but 2016 saw a move to the use of Elsevier data. Other bibliometric analyses have been provided by various suppliers since 2008, and there is no specific preference on maintaining existing arrangements.