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Bringing it all together
Improve discoverability and simplify academic collaboration with centralized collection, management and showcasing of your faculty’s research outputs.
- Information aggregated from separate, independent sources, breaking down research information siloes.
- Comprehensive records include pre-prints, publications, data sets, awarded grants, awards, projects, activities, creative works, research tools, and media mentions.
- Everything (from awarded grants to published work to prizes) is linked.
- Covers the full range of academic disciplines.
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Saving time with smart data harvesting
Intelligent automation saves time and reduces the workload for librarians and faculty, while enhancing academic discovery with a full, accurate repository of research output.
- Smart Harvesting AI automatically matches scholars with their research, at scale.
- Machine learning improves the system’s accuracy each time data is harvested.
- Information and records are drawn from the Ex Libris Central Index, national libraries, disciplinary repositories, and more.
- Automatic migration of data from your existing repository to Esploro.
- Research librarians can make mediated deposits of research assets.
- Automatic updates of researcher profiles, publications and citations.
- Researchers can directly deposit their outputs.
- Students can directly deposit theses, dissertations and other assets.
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Increasing discoverability with high-quality metadata
Esploro increases the discoverability of research outputs and facilitates scholarly use of research data by automatically capturing rich, high-quality metadata.
- Flexible data models, supporting nearly 100 asset types.
- Automatic data enrichment of existing research assets
- Metadata for research activities (such as mass media activities, consultations, exhibitions, workshops, student supervision, volunteer work).
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Custom analytics in a user-friendly package
Data and insights from the Esploro research information hub makes it possible to accurately measure the full impact of an institution’s research and demonstrate its value.
- Feed data into third-party systems for comprehensive reporting and data visualization.
- Measure impact at the level of the individual researcher, faculty and institution.
- An accurate picture of inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional collaboration.
- A customizable user-friendly analytics dashboard and interface.
- Multiple custom and out-of-the-box reports, created with just a few clicks.
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Integration that expands capabilities
The research information hub’s tight integration into library workflows streamlines many processes and expands institutional capabilities.
- Integrates with Ex Libris solutions, third-party academic systems, online repositories, subject-based indexes, and researcher profile identification tools.
- Integration with Ex Libris Alma allows easy management of article processing charge (APC) requests, research metadata, and cross-product analytics.
- Integration with Ex Libris Pivot-RP research funding solution makes it possible to connect awarded grants and publications.
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Improving productivity at scale
Automation and integrated workflows reduce the burden on library staff and improve productivity, providing optimal support for researchers at scale.
- Bulk updates of research assets.
- Streamlined approval of asset deposits.
- Centralized management of APC requests, access rights, restricted content requests, assets matching, and copyright processes.
- Automated import, export and publishing tasks.
- Efficient workflows for national assessments.
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