Presentation shared at the SciTS Conference 2014. Innovative interdisciplinary and multi-institutional portals to stimulate networking and collaboration across institutional and national boundaries. Research networking is facilitated through web-based expertise profiling systems—research networking tools (RN tools)—that aggregate research and scholarly information about faculty members and investigators to enable the rapid discovery and recommendation of experts to address new or existing research challenges and to facilitate new interdisciplinary collaborations. While most RN tool implementations focus on harvesting and displaying expertise from a single institution and across traditional academic organizational structures, this session will examine the flexibility of Elsevier’s Experts Portal to deliver innovative multi-institutional, cross-sector, and international semantic expertise portals in partnership with universities and other research institutions. These multi-institutional expertise portals are a key to stimulating networking and collaboration across typical research silos.

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Research Networking: Multi-institutional
Expertise Discovery
and Collaboration
Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski, PhD
Vice President, Global Academic & Research Relations
Elsevier
5th Annual International Science of Team Science Conference ◊ August 8, 2014

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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 Discovery
CRIS
Semantic Search

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Experts: Preferred Research Networking Solution in the World
Interdisciplinary & Global Collaboration
2012
VIVO-Compliant Experts
Instance Launched
22
CTSA
Institutions w/ Experts
# of instances worldwide
160+
>160,000
Expert Profiles
Connectivity w/ more than 175 Institutions around the globe
Statistics account for all live Pure and SciVal Experts instances as of July 29, 2014
Countries
connected
through
Portals
24
4M
Publications

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Cross-organizational, Interdisciplinary Structure
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

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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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Federated, Cross-institutional Searching
• CTSAsearch
- CTSA Consortium pilot
- 9 CTSA Institutions
- Multiple RN platforms
o SciVal Experts
o Loki
o VIVO
o Profiles
• Experts Portal Community
- 47 Implementations
- >100 Institutions
• DIRECT2Experts
- NIH pilot
- >60 Portals
- >120 Institutions
- Multiple RN platforms
o SciVal Experts
o Profiles
o Loki
o CAPS
o VIVO

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