Technology from SAGE, a division of SAGE Publishing, has acquired Sciwheel, an award-winning tool providing library patrons with an easy way to discover, read, annotate, write, and share research. The serial entrepreneur, Vitek Tracz, created Sciwheel to go beyond traditional reference management by assisting students and researchers throughout the entire writing process. The tool will be integrated with Technology from SAGE's Lean Library to create a comprehensive academic workflow tool.
Sciwheel includes a web-based application, a browser extension, and add-ins for Google Docs and Microsoft Word to connect resource discovery with academic writing. More than 200 institutions around the globe use the tool to provide library patrons with reading, referencing, and authorship support. The Sciwheel product and engineering team will join Technology from SAGE.
The acquisition of Sciwheel comes in response to the extensive research on the librarian's role in supporting patron workflows. Based on a survey of 4,000 librarians and patrons, the 2021 Lean Library white paper, ’Librarian Futures’ found supporting patrons with workflow tools and embedding library services in the ‘life of the user’ as recurring needs.
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