The Research Catalogue (RC)
The Research Catalogue is a free, open, and non-commercial platform for artistic research, developed by SAR for documenting, presenting, and publishing knowledge created through artistic research. It hosts a vibrant community of researchers where you can create and publish multimedia expositions, collaborate, and explore projects and research. Since traditional research formats are often unsuited to artistic work, the RC offers an online environment where text, images, sound, and video can be combined in integrated expositions that reflect the unique nature of artistic research.
What RC users say
"Genalguacil Pueblo Museo Foundation uses the Research Catalogue to provide open access to its collection and programmes as a common good, as a source of inspiration, in how arts-based approaches, practices, and collaborations can catalyse social transformation."
Joe Lockwood — Fundacion Pueblo Museo Genalguacil
"I use the Research Catalogue from SAR as an important tool to promote and support Artistic Research. The NARP portal is a rich resource for PhD students and staff working with doctoral education in performing and creative arts in Norway."
Geir Strøm — Director, Norwegian Artistic Research Program
"I have used the RC for projects of all scales; it's always freeing to explore how best to communicate research and push past platform limits through inventive, sometimes unexpected, design solutions."
Matilde Meireles — Sound Artist and Researcher
"As an open research community, SAR provides us with an unparalleled platform to disseminate research in the specific domain of the Arts, the possibility to meet in the SAR conferences and forums, training and a stage for discussion in the thematic webinars, and the hosting of our Journal of research in Art, Design and Society HUB-BUH, published through the Research Catalogue."
Paulo Luís Almeida — Director i2ADS; Associate Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto
The largest international online platform
The Research Catalogue is the largest repository for artistic research. As an international platform for sustainable, long-term, open access publication of artistic research outcomes and results, it serves a global community of artistic researchers and institutional partners. It aims to be an open space for experimentation and exchange.
Multiple modes of presentation
For artistic research, the mode of presentation of research outcomes and results is essential. PDFs and conventional formats for research publications are not suitable for complex and rich media presentations. The RC provides a platform that supports non-linear forms of presentation for research and education across the arts and beyond.
Free for artists and researchers
The Research Catalogue is a non-commercial, collaborative platform. It is free to use for artists and researchers. It also serves as a backbone for teaching purposes, student assessment, peer review workflows, journal publications and research funding administration.
Sound, image, video, text
The Research Catalogue allows artists and researchers to go beyond the standard format of journal articles or research repositories. It supports a multi-media integrated format for presentation. The visual disposition and focus on different media formats is under the full control of the authors.
The Research Catalogue in numbers
- 5,740 — public expositions
- 30,180 — registered users
- 9,000,000 — yearly page views
Extended RC possibilities
Besides sharing and publishing the outcomes of individual artistic research projects, the RC hosts a number of Institutional Portals, peer-reviewed Journals and Projects.
Institutional portals
Institutional portals are dedicated, customisable spaces created for academic and research institutions to host and manage their artistic research output within the RC environment. They allow institutions to curate expositions, manage users, run internal review or submissions, and present their research publicly under their own branded portal while relying on the RC's technical infrastructure.
Peer-reviewed journals
Journals are peer-reviewed artistic research publications, often (but not all limited to) publishing multimodal expositions created within the RC platform. Each is managed by their own independent editorial boards, which oversee peer review and publication while using the RC infrastructure as their technical and publication system.
Projects
Projects are time-limited research initiatives by institutional portals. The more temporary project portal has similar functionality to a normal portal, but is assumed to only be active for a limited amount of time.