6/2/2008
Today the scientific portal NARCIS integrates the network of academic repositories in the Netherlands, DAREnet. The website www.darenet.nl, developed by SURFfoundation, is now a part of NARCIS. The portal www.narcis.info offers, amongst others, everyone access to tens of thousands of academic publications in full text. For the English website please visit www.narcis.info/index/Language/en/. Special collections in the NARCIS portfolio include Cream of Science, showcasing prominent research from the Netherlands and the collection Promise of Science, accessing doctoral e-theses from all Dutch universities.
NARCIS offers the following information:
The main NARCIS section: Search for data on researchers, research organisations and current (or recently concluded) research projects at all Dutch universities and research institutes. You can also search the more than 2,100 datasets that make up the DANS Electronic Archiving System (EASY). This section also gives you access to the full-text publications in DAREnet.
NARCIS is further divided into three sub-sections:
DAREnet: Search exclusively for full-text publications from all Dutch universities, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, and other research institutions.
Cream of Science: The familiar publication lists of 217 leading researchers, consisting of almost 50,000 documents. Approximately 60 percent of the publications are available in full-text versions and can be downloaded via NARCIS.
Doctoral theses: The Promise of Science provides access to approximately 20,000 full-text doctoral theses from all Dutch universities.
In addition to these four sections, NARCIS is updated every hour with the latest science news flashes from various sources, including universities and other academic information providers (Intermediair, Science Guide and Elsevier).
An RSS-feed function will keep you up to date on the latest full-text publications and datasets and the most recent research in your field of interest.
DAREnet is an initiative of SURFfoundation, developed within the DARE-programme (Digital Academic Repositories). At the beginning of 2007 DAREnet was transferred to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
NARCIS was developed by the KNAW and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), with assistance from SURF, the collaborative organisation for higher education institutions and research institutes, aimed at breakthrough innovations in ICT. Plans are to continue expanding NARCIS in the years ahead. NARCIS’s content is created in close cooperation with Dutch scientific and scholarly institutions.
More information
For more information, please contact Elly Dijk, KNAW Research Information, T: +31(0)20-4628658
Armand Guicherit, T: +31(0)20-4628659 E: narcis@bureau.knaw.nl.