Research Networking to Enhance Multi-institutional Expertise Discovery and Collaboration

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Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski, PhD

Vice President, Global Academic & Research Relations

Elsevier

5th Annual International Science of Team Science Conference ◊ August 8, 2014

Research Networking: Multi-institutional Expertise Discovery and Collaboration

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Research Networking

Expertise Profiling and Research Networking

• Facilitate collaborations by exposing research connections and make scholars’/researchers' accomplishments readily discoverable

• Demonstrate researchers' activities to the research community, government agencies, industry, media and the public

• Facilitate cross-institutional collaborations, economic development initiatives and other external partnerships through public portals

• Identify potential collaborators by accessing researchers with similar expertise via semantic profile mapping and via coauthor and institutional visualizations

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Pure Experts Portal

Expertise DiscoveryCRIS

Semantic Search

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Experts: Preferred Research Networking Solution in the World

Statistics account for all live Pure and SciVal Experts instances as of July 29, 2014

2012VIVO-Compliant Experts

Instance Launched

22 CTSA

Institutions w/ Experts

# of instances worldwide

160+

>160,000Expert Profiles

Connectivity w/ more than 175 Institutions around the globe

Countries connected

through Portals

24

4MPublications

Interdisciplinary & Global Collaboration

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Pure Experts Portal• Harvester, Profiler, Semantic

Fingerprinting

FASIS• HR and Academic Data

Scopus• Publication Data

Profile Enhancer• Publications/Scholarly Works

InfoEd• Grant information

VIVO• Data broadcast in RDF triples

10 schools, >3,000 faculty

Cross-organizational, Interdisciplinary Structure

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Discovery Across Institutions

• 1 Organizing Theme

• 8 Public & Private Universities

• 5 DOE National Labs

• 78 Researchers

• 13 Languages

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Multi-Institution Research Theme

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Discover and Connect

• 158 Researchers• 1 Minority Group• 2 Universities• 2 DOE national Labs

• Showcase achievements of women scientists

• Help women network and collaborate

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Statewide Portal

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Statewide Portal for Economic Development

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Collaboration via an eCommerce Approach

• Cross-sector collaboration

• Connect Michigan's corporations to critical university assets

• Statewide Expertise• 6 Michigan research

university campuses• 7,627 researchers• 315,069 publications• 61,335 awarded

grants• 653 patents • 103 core facilities

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How to use the University Expertise PortalExperts, Resources, Tracking Communicaton

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• CTSAsearch- CTSA Consortium pilot- 9 CTSA Institutions- Multiple RN platforms

o SciVal Expertso Lokio VIVOo Profiles

Federated, Cross-institutional Searching

• Experts Portal Community- 47 Implementations- >100 Institutions

• DIRECT2Experts- NIH pilot- >60 Portals- >120 Institutions- Multiple RN platforms

o SciVal Expertso Profileso Lokio CAPSo VIVO

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