Knowledge management and discovery software developer Collexis Holdings, Inc., US, announced that Johns Hopkins University (JHU) has put the institution's Collexis Expertise Portal online (http://www.institutionaldashboard.collexis.com/jhu). The portal is a public website where individuals can search, sort, or view compiled views of the research conducted by JHU and its faculty. JHU is the first institution to allow public access to Collexis Expertise Profiles.
The Collexis approach has become popular with research intensive institutions like the National Institutes of Health that want to have a complete system to identify potential partnerships, translational research projects, or other unique connections between research experts. To date, most institutions have limited their systems to internal collaborations. Johns Hopkins University has elected to give public access to help promote relationships and translational research with other partnering institutions in the public and private sector. JHU has also contracted with Collexis for an ongoing search engine optimisation project designed to make Johns Hopkins researchers more widely read and identified online through search engines like Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google.
Collexis develops applications that range from search tools for users' websites to highly sophisticated discovery applications that are utilised by the intelligence community and R&D organisations worldwide. These applications allow users to identify and search for documents, experts, trends or new discoveries that may be hidden in the materials.
