Cassyni and Inspec, the IET’s abstracting and indexing database for engineering, physics, and computing, have announced a partnership to index Cassyni’s research talks as a distinct content type within Inspec. This integration allows researchers to discover video talks alongside journal articles, conference proceedings, and books, with each talk citable, DOI‑linked, and discoverable within the same workflow as traditional literature.
Inspec will include research talks from Cassyni’s global library, developed in collaboration with journal publishers, learned societies, and research institutions. The collection features seminars, conference presentations, and departmental colloquia curated by organizations such as Springer Nature, Elsevier, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and Cambridge University Press, as well as talks from researchers at institutions including Stanford University, Imperial College London, and Tsinghua University.
The addition of Cassyni’s talks provides Inspec users with access to a new source of detailed information, often including insights not captured in published papers, such as experimental setups or audience questions.
Ben Kaube, Co‑founder of Cassyni, explained that the priority is to make Cassyni‑hosted research talks discoverable within platforms researchers already use, noting that Inspec is particularly important for the engineering and technology communities.
Inspec representatives indicated that demand for non‑traditional outputs, including video, is increasing among users. They emphasized that indexing Cassyni’s talks meets this demand while maintaining the editorial standards expected by the research community.
The partnership reflects a broader trend toward integrating multimedia content into scholarly discovery workflows, ensuring that researchers can access diverse formats of information alongside traditional publications.
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