Elsevier Matches Funding Opportunities to Researcher Expertise
By Elsevier, PRNETuesday, July 5, 2011
AMSTERDAM, July 6, 2011 -
- Unique Funding
Tool Integrated into SciVal Experts
Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and
medical information products and services, today announced the
availability of a new tool in its expertise management solution
SciVal Experts. The tool seamlessly links opportunities within
SciVal Funding, Elsevier’s funding intelligence solution, to
researcher profiles within SciVal Experts, automating the process
of matching expertise with grants.
Powered by the Elsevier Fingerprint Engine™, the tool helps
researchers maximize award success by delivering targeted
recommendations for funding opportunities and providing suggestions
regarding potential collaborators for awards. Administrators and
research development professionals can distribute relevant funding
opportunities, form teams to pursue awards and keep track of
faculty members’ interest in the recommendations by centrally
managing the pre-award process.
“Institutions that are able to swiftly identify individual
researcher expertise are better poised to navigate a competitive
research landscape,” said Jay Katzen, Managing Director of Elsevier
Academic and Government Markets. “By taking the guesswork out of
the pre-award process, we hope to facilitate a more impactful and
efficient funding process that allows faculty to spend their time
on what is most important to them - their research.”
With rising competition for funding, researchers need immediate
access to relevant opportunities and suggested collaborators to
maximize award success, while administrators often struggle to find
the right funding opportunities for their faculty or the time to
form effective research teams. This new tool within SciVal Experts
addresses these dual needs by recommending appropriate funding
opportunities and suggested collaborators to researchers and
administrators.
SciVal Experts is a directory of researcher expertise that makes
it easy for researchers, administrators, research development
professionals and senior leadership to find experts and enable
collaboration within their institution and across organizations.
SciVal Funding is a comprehensive funding intelligence tool, which
optimizes the pre-award stage of the research cycle. SciVal Funding
leads researchers, administrators and research development
professionals to grants with the greatest potential for success by
integrating current funding opportunities with publication
information and historical award data.
The new tool within SciVal Experts is available to institutions
that have access to both SciVal Experts and SciVal Funding. For
more information, please visit
About the Elsevier SciVal®
Suite
Elsevier’s SciVal suite
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of services supports academic and government leadership in
evaluating, establishing and executing research strategies that
optimize the performance of existing assets and maximize
investments to enhance near and long-term productivity. SciVal
tools leverage Scopus® data, Elsevier’s trusted source of
bibliometric data, to offer innovative yet authoritative solutions.
Current suite offerings include: SciVal Spotlight™, a strategic
tool that generates unique institutional and country maps of
existing and emerging strengths based on an interdisciplinary
perspective of current performance; SciVal Funding™, an online
solution that provides targeted recommendations on grants to pursue
based on pre-populated research profiles and historical awards;
SciVal Strata, a web-based research performance tool that offers
users the flexibility to construct relevant contextual data to
evaluate research teams or individual researchers, using a range of
indicators based on Scopus data; SciVal Experts, a semantic
technology-based application that enables researchers to identify
and locate sources of expertise at an individual or departmental
level within and across institutions.
About Elsevier
Elsevier is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical
and medical information products and services. The company works in
partnership with the global science and health communities to
publish more than 2,000 journals, including
book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and
Saunders. Elsevier’s online solutions include
enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and
the SciVal suite and
research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more
cost-effectively.
A global business headquartered in Amsterdam,
worldwide. The company is part of
world-leading publisher and information provider, which is jointly
owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols
are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and
ENL (New York Stock Exchange).
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