SHARE has launched a public beta version of its free notification service, SHARE Notify, to make research more widely accessible, discoverable, and reusable. Stakeholders in the research enterprise - funding agencies, institutions, and individual researchers - often find it challenging to keep track of new research activities that may be relevant to their work.
SHARE Notify generates a normalised feed of research release events such as posting a preprint to a disciplinary repository, depositing a data set into a data repository, publishing a peer-reviewed article from diverse sources and with varied schema. This service will enable all stakeholders to have the information necessary to improve their workflows for tracking research outcomes, outputs, and impact. SHARE Notify currently includes metadata from 30 providers and more than 615,000 release events.
SHARE Notify is the first project of SHARE, a higher education initiative to maximise research impact. SHARE was co-founded by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Association of American Universities (AAU), and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) in 2013 and is funded, in part, by grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The Center for Open Science (COS) has been SHARE's technical partner since June 2014.
