What is PRC?

The Research Portal of Catalonia (PRC) is the single point from which we give visibility and disseminate in Open Access the research outputs produced in Catalonia.

PRC collects information on researchers, publications, theses, datasets, research groups and research projects to promote their impact and visibility within the international scientific community, companies, funding organizations and the general public. In the long term, the goal of PRC is to simplify management processes and to support the evaluation processes.

In an open science context, information on research increased in importance. Consequently, this has changed the way this information is handled: from an internal issue committed to research management systems, the focus is now placed to externally display the research outputs of institutions, a task that is carried out through research portals such as PRC.

In recent years, several data integration projects in the field of research and innovation have been launched across Europe. The following are noteworthy:

With the premise of facilitating access to the research done in Catalonia, PRC aggregates information from several sources and institutions, encouraging data reuse and, therefore, the transfer of knowledge, becoming a pioneering tool of this characteristics in Southern Europe.

PRC database is fed by data collected by universities and research centers of Catalonia in their research management systems (CRIS), which collect and disseminate all the information related to the research activities of the institution. Thanks to PRC, institutions improve the management of information through agreements reached on the provision of data, the Common European Research Information Format (CERIF) and interoperability protocols, the use of persistent digital identifiers (ORCID for researchers and DOI for publications), and the promotion of open access research and institutional repositories.

Additional information about research projects will soon be incorporated into the PRC through UNEIX.