STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative of Cleveland (CTSC) at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has launched their SciVal Experts community. SciVal Experts is Elsevier's networking tool designed to foster collaboration between investigators and promote multi-disciplinary clinical and translational research.
SciVal Experts will provide CTSC institutions with access to a constantly evolving database of faculty and researcher profiles. The researcher profiles identify and compile researchers' areas of expertise and position alongside a searchable list of researchers' current publication data and grant information. This aggregated information provides users with valuable intelligence to engage in knowledge transfer and to identify opportunities for research collaboration.
CTSC's SciVal Experts implementation will enable researchers to locate sources of expertise and identify collaboration opportunities at an individual and/or departmental level across CTSC institutions and throughout the SciVal Experts research community of more than 20 research institutions nationwide. This new collaborative technology will provide stakeholders and potential partners from academia, government, media and industry with easy access to view and engage CTSC researchers working on relevant projects.
Cleveland area research institutions in this SciVal Experts implementation include: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, MetroHealth Systems, University Hospitals Case Medical Center and Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center. SciVal Experts will serve a key role in supporting the CTSC's mission to accelerate discoveries toward better health.
