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Weekly News Digest
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August 25, 2011 — In addition to this week's NewsBreak(s), the editors have compiled the Weekly News Digest, featuring stories from the week just past that you should know about. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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Elsevier’s SciVal Experts Leads Participation in National Research Network
Elsevier’s SciVal Experts, a directory of research expertise, is now participating in a growing national online research community called DIRECT2Experts that connects researchers across disciplines, institutions, and platforms. This online network allows users from academic institutions in the U.S. to find potential research collaborators, regardless of their local platforms and tools. DIRECT2Experts is a pilot project facilitated by the Research Networking Group of the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA), a consortium led by the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Research Resources.Users at institutions participating in the DIRECT2Experts network have the opportunity to connect with researchers at other organizations in a growing national research community, which could expand globally in the future. Individual researchers can search and view researcher profiles in SciVal Experts in addition to a variety of other databases such as Harvard Catalyst Profiles, Stanford's Community Academic Profiles (CAP), VIVO at Cornell University and University of Florida, and Loki at the University of Iowa. Currently, 14 of the 29 institutions in the DIRECT2Experts network utilize SciVal Experts, including, Johns Hopkins University; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; University of Michigan; and University of California Davis. Source: Elsevier
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Paula J. Hane
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