Dear All,
FYI
Regards,
S M Pujar
Deputy Librarian
IGIDR, Mumbai
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From: John Liebhardt
Date: Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 11:18 PM
Subject: [authoraiddiscussion] New citation database launches
To: AuthorAID Discussion
Dear all,
A new citation database called Dimensions launched a few weeks ago,
which could be an alternative to Web of Science or Scopus.
For those of us who don’t have access to those products, Dimensions
runs on a freemium model, allowing anyone to utilize basic functions
while its owners hope that organizations and universities pay for
higher level functionality and support.
Users in the free version should find the functionality much like
other citation databases, being able to search by subject keywords,
journal title, author name and, say, university name. (I've run a few
searches and it feels similar to Scopus.)
The free version of this tool could be very helpful to researchers:
helping find the names of journals publishing in specific disciplines
(and the quality of those journals), providing papers/citations in
those disciplines and maybe even potential collaborators. Those
paying for the premium version would also be able to get information
on grants, clinical trials and patents — and presumably more metric
tools.
Here is link for the Dimensions site: https://www.dimensions.ai/
Here is the link to the discovery tool:
https://app.dimensions.ai/discover/publication
Dimensions has a lot more tools than I’ve briefly mentioned. Here are
a few stories that explain them.
Inside Higher Ed: Democratizing Research Funding Data
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/01/15/corporation-strives-democrati...
Information Today: Digital Science Adds Extra Dimensions to Scholarly
Research Data
http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Digital-Science-Adds-Extra-Dimens...
Nature: Science search engine links papers to grants and patents:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00688-0
Thank you,
John Liebhardt
John Liebhardt
Sharjah, UAE
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