Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science has selected the Ex Libris Esploro™ research services solution to help the institute capture research output and data from external sources, showcase the institute’s research work, and comply with funders’ open-access policies. The Esploro solution will replace Weizmann’s institutional research repository and will be integrated with the institute’s research information system.
The British scientific journal Nature has ranked the Weizmann Institute of Science one of the top three academic institutions worldwide. Among the institute’s many award winners are a Nobel Prize laureate and three Turing Award recipients. Weizmann’s publication database contains over 55,000 Weizmann-affiliated works.
Libraries can play a central role in supporting and showcasing institutional research, and it is believed that Esploro will contribute to achieving this goal through increased library efficiencies, improved metadata, better integration with research and library systems, and easier compliance with funders’ mandates.
The institute determined that it needed to strengthen the management of its research output and address a variety of challenges, including compliance with open-access mandates and the tracking of research metrics. The Esploro solution meets all of these requirements.
The Institute is a long-time user of the Ex Libris Alma® library services platform and Primo® library discovery solution, which, like the Esploro solution, are built on the Ex Libris higher-education cloud platform.
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