ELSEVIER - OPEN TO ACCELERATE SCIENCE

Xtreme Reference Conference Presented by Gali Halevi

M.L.S; PhDAccount Development Manager

October, 2010

“Future of Search and Discovery” Survey Background• Elsevier recently ran an

online survey on the needs of researchers in search and discovery

• Survey topics covered include the potential impact of scientific applications, open platforms and APIs

• More than 1,200 researchers responded:

Academic

Government

Commercial

The survey offers a quick pulse of the attitudes and opinions of researchers across the globe. Respondents primarily hailed from academia (79%) with the balance from government (15%) and industry (7%).

RESEARCH IS MORE EXCITING BUT ALSO MORE CHALLENGING

Source: 2007 Survey by Outsell Inc. on 6,300 knowledge workers

Researchers spend more time looking for information

than analyzing and applying it.

How many hours per week searching and gathering information?

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OTHER FORCES THAT SHAPE RESEARCH

TREND EXACERBATED BY ECONOMIC DOWNTURN

Government Policies

Global Competition

Workflow Inefficiencies

Funding Pressures

“….In a very popular topic, you may hit 500 articles. I try different queries and get 50-100, but only 20% are useful. It’s about the efficiency of the time you spend vs. the output….”

“….Twenty years ago there were one-third as many journals in my field. Now it would take one day each week just to keep up . . .”

“….I’ve got 5,000 pdf files that I’ve downloaded on my computer, seriously. I’ve tried renaming them so that I can find the right one when I need it, but it hasn’t worked….”

KEY WEB TRENDS DEFINING THE FUTURE

Openness &Interoperability

Personalization

Collaboration & Trusted Views

THE PROBLEM ISN’T HAVING TOO MUCH INFORMATION…

…It’s about accessing the right information in an efficient and

effective way

OPEN TO ACCELERATE SCIENCE

What is SciVerse?

• Integrated Content & Discovery Tools• Productivity-Enhancing Applications

SciVerse empowers the research community to accelerate science by opening ScienceDirect & Scopus content APIs for third-party application development, enabling intelligent search and discovery across integrated content from ScienceDirect, Scopus, and the scientific web

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On August 28, 2010, ScienceDirect and Scopus integrated on the SciVerse platform with increased interoperability

• Single log-in provides access to all licensed and free SciVerse products – Hub, ScienceDirect, and Scopus.

• Increased interoperability and easier navigation between solutions

• Image Search for full-text articles and books (e.g. photos, tables, videos)

• Integration of REFLECT, the 2009 Grand Challenge winner, offers contextual information on proteins, genes and small molecules within articles.

• Reference Work Helper links to relevant reference works on ScienceDirect directly connected to a selected article

• Author Evaluation tool visualizes author data to aid collaboration or individual assessment decisions

• Scopus Enhanced Affiliation Profile allows Administrators to inform and update Scopus profiling so that there is a clear hierarchy of relationships between profiles

WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED FROM YOU?

Applica-tions that facilitate

more cus-tomized search

Applica-tions that

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meaning-ful insight

Applica-tions that show con-tent which

trusted peers find valuable

Provide personal-ized con-tent de-livery

based on my inter-ests and

back-ground

Offering analytical tools that are able to target trends, look at

historical research output

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What are the applications that will be the most useful to the scientific community?

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On August 28, 2010, SciVerse Hub was launched with three free Applications for all customers

• One search across a single index of ScienceDirect, Scopus, and web content

• Three embedded applications for all users that include:

• Methodology section search application for full text articles

• Sentence matching application efficiently assesses search results and displays query words in the full sentences where they appear

• Prolific author search application finds the most “prolific authors” publishing articles about search terms, linking into articles by that author within Scopus.

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Researchers can save time and improve their information discovery process

SciVerse Scopus Mobile

The SciVerse Scopus iPhone app is available at the Apple store!

• Find articles• Create alerts • Make notes • Share links instantly

Great for when you are traveling or attending a conference – you don’t have to power up the desktop in order to find citations or stay current with the latest articles.

Use it on the Go

Save Articles and Add Notes

Science Direct App

Researchers will be able to:

• Access all the full text SciVerse ScienceDirect content

• Search for ScienceDirect articles (by Keyword, Author or Journal)

• Save articles for offline viewing

• Share articles with colleagues via email.

New! ScienceDirect for iPhone!

Summary

Useful Links:

SciVerse Hub Info Site: http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciverse-hub

The TrainingDesk: http://trainingdesk.elsevier.com/

Thank You