refworks-cos is a business unit of proquest an expert profiling & identifier service

RefWorks-COS is a business unit of ProQuest

An Expert Profiling & Identifier Service

What is Author Resolver?

• Real-time resolution between names and people

• Web-based service

• Runs from user’s browser

• Lightweight, easy-to-implement

www.authorresolver.com


Find the “Know Who” Experts

• Do your users know “who knows” within their organization?

• How do they quickly and effectively identify experts within an organization or a specific field of research?

• Author Resolver allows your users to quickly indentify, locate and collaborate with the “know who” experts.

How Does Author Resolver Work?


• Author Name(s)• Title• Other identifiers

Publication Information

• Asynchronous processing

• Returns rank-ordered results

Author Resolver • Current

Professional Info• Select

Publications

Scholar Profile

Author Resolver in Action



Author Resolver In Action

Scholar Profiles


Over 2.2 million scholar profiles

Academic/scholarly

community

International scope

Combines editorial controls and scholar input

Updated by manual and automated processes


Scholar Profiles

• Contains profile information for over 2.2 million full- time faculty researchers 2,210 universities 500 of the top universities worldwide (most research activity) 75 countries

• An aggregated content store is produced from Public sources, publishers, academic institutions, integrated web

searches Edited and verified and regularly updated for 99% accuracy


Content Sources

Scholar supplied information

Researcher’s websites

Content from over 70 CSA-proprietary databases is mined for author

publications back to 1990

ABI/INFORM publications dating back to 1985

ERIC dating back to 1990

Indexed information found in publicly available sites

PubMed – Author publications back to 1956

Editorial processes are applied to content for validation and

consistency

Scope

Multidisciplinary – Over 200 disciplines covered

Medicine Applied Science Social Sciences Humanities Business Natural Science Allied Health Arts Engineering Education Mass Communication Law Agriculture Environmental Science Architecture

International in scope

North America 57%

Europe 29%

Asia 6%

Australia/New Zealand 5%

Mid East 2%

South America 1%

Integrating Author Resolver

• Utilizes JavaScript

• Microformats

• Real-time Processing on COS servers

• Recently Updated Profile Data

• Asynchronous Processing


Citation With Microformat


<td><a href="...">Amyloid beta: the alternate hypothesis.</a> Lee, Hyoung-gon; . . . Current Alzheimer research, 2006 Feb, 3(1):75-80 Alzheimer disease (AD) is a devastating condition and patients,...</td>

Citation With Microformat


<td class="hcite"><a href="...">Amyloid beta: the alternate hypothesis.</a> Lee, Hyoung-gon; . . . Current Alzheimer research, 2006 Feb, 3(1):75-80 Alzheimer disease (AD) is a devastating condition and patients,...</td>

User Benefits

Extends the information discovery process

Enables collaboration

Promotes your authors’ contributions

Enriches user experience



Why is this being made available?

Increase Interaction with Scholar Profiles

Scholar Feedback

Enriched Profiles

Improve User Experience

Revenue Streams:

1. Additional Profile Data

2. Keyword Searching

Interested in implementing?


• Idea Sharing / Follow-up Discussions

• COS will Share “Author Resolver API”

Tina MoirSr. Director, Business Development

& Marketing

[email protected]

+ 1.301.961.6771

refworks-cos is a business unit of proquest an expert profiling & identifier service

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