SIHTASUTUSE ARCHIMEDES Aastaraamat

Estonian Research Information System ERIS
Development work
In 2005, there was a full transition to web forms in the acceptance of applications and reports by the Estonian
Science Fund and for targeted financing. At the same time, the web and database server of ERIS was also fully
transferred to free and open-coded software to avoid the astronomical license fees of commercial database
software. In addition, most of the ERIS software was rewritten to prevent delays caused by additional workload
to the users of ERIS.
Due to the fundamental and annual changes in the grant application procedures of targeted financing and the
Estonian Science Fund it was also necessary to create completely new application and report forms, which
considerably improved the quality of the information gathered.
Addition, management, unification of information
340 new projects and applications were added to the ERIS database, also financing information on all follow-up
projects of the Estonian Science Fund.
As at 31 December, the information system contained 3,921 research subjects and 5,834 individuals.
Approximately 4,000 individuals have registered as users of the electronic grant application system. CVs
submitted through the electronic grant application system were added to the information system if the submitter
of the CV gave permission to the publishing of the CV in ERIS. 1,539 public CVs were added to ERIS in 2005,
and by 31 December, 2,509 individuals had made their CV public in the information system.
Information, on the publications of Estonian researchers in highly cited international journals (journals indexed
by ISI), was gathered in a separate database. The database contains 5,452 bibliographical records, 9,639
authors, among them 2,723 Estonian authors. 1,018 articles were added to the database in 2005.
First names of Estonian authors were mainly added by checking the articles de visu.
At the request of the Scientific Competence Council a dataset was gathered of citations of publications by
subject leaders who are applying for targeted financing.
The Estonian Research Information System ETIS
The new Estonian Research Information System ETIS has been developed in close cooperation with the
ERIS team. The Foundation participated in the working group set up for the creation of the Estonian Research
Archimedes Foundation in 2005
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