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Smart profiles: accurate, complete and up to date
Researcher profiles from all disciplines are created and continuously updated using smart harvesting AI, relieving faculty of the burden and saving time.
- Publications, affiliations, education, honors and awards, activities, related data sets, conference proceedings, dissertations, blogs, and media mentions are all included.
- Information is collected from multiple local and external sources, including the Ex Libris Central Index, disciplinary and national repositories, general media, and more.
- Intelligent automation matches each scholar with their research.
- Machine learning algorithms improve profile accuracy each time data is harvested.
- Researchers can easily approve and edit profiles or delegate the work to proxies.
- Quick creation of up-to-date CVs in multiple formats.
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Research Portal: a showcase that gets results
The user-friendly, customizable Esploro Research Portal is where researchers, funders, industry partners and the public can discover an institution’s researchers and explore their work.
- A user-oriented, mobile-friendly display makes it easy to find expertise, publications, and various research information.
- Universities can point to their portal from any other website.
- The portal can be indexed by search engines and accessed from results.
- Configuration is versatile and self-explanatory, allowing institutions to meet their specific needs in showcasing research and researcher profiles.
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Facilitating expert finder
Collaboration with other scholars and industry partnerships is easier with full, accurate and discoverable researcher profiles.
- Up-to-date profiles in a single, searchable location.
- SEO-friendly, making profiles and publications more easily discoverable on the web.
- Profiles are directly linked to the researcher’s publications and work.
- Featuring expertise and topics of research.
- Automatic synchronization with external profiles such as ORCID.
- Supports multiple languages.
- Centralizes media references to researchers and their work.
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Comprehensive analytics
Scholars and research offices can easily see how often their research outputs are viewed and downloaded with Esploro engagement metrics.
- Cross-institutional and interdisciplinary collaborations.
- Integrated presentation of local and third-party data.
- Citation counts drawn from the Web of Science.
- Includes KPIs based on altmetrics (non-traditional bibliometrics).
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Data to enrich reporting systems
Information from Esploro profiles can seamlessly feed into multiple systems throughout the institution – and vice versa.
- Enriches the data used in Faculty Activity Reporting, Research Administration systems and more.
- Integration with other systems through open APIs.
- Direct and automated data exports.
- Integration with Ex Libris Pivot-RP makes it possible to connect awarded grants and publications.
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Simplify the search for funding
Researchers can easily discover funding opportunities directly from within their personal Esploro profiles to streamline the research funding workflow.
- Information on available sources of research funding is pulled from Pivot-RP.
- Funding opportunities are displayed according to the researcher’s Pivot-RP ID, for personalized results that match the researcher’s area of expertise.
- Displayed results can be filtered according to the funding organization.
- Allows the research office to expose researchers to funding opportunities through additional channels.
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