Dear Members - Please explore LENS https://www.lens.org/ Scholarly and patent Information platform and prvide your feedback , *The Lens* exists to promote inclusivity by making knowledge accessible as a public good that is shareable and reusable. The Lens is available as an open platform at https://www.lens.org/ The Lens was developed and continues to be maintained through philanthropic support. The Lens provides discovery, analytics and research management tools on top of a comprehensive collection of scholarly literature metadata and patent literature linked through a citation index. Uniquely, The Lens provides this corpus of scholarly literature metadata and patent information on an open, verifiable, and privacy assured platform. The following is a brief overview about the platform. Four core Lens “Apps” focus on specific content sets: - *Scholarly Works* https://www.lens.org/lens/search/scholar/structured: Discovery and analytics tools access a corpus of scholarly literature metadata with citation indexing. *(220M records)* - *Patents* https://www.lens.org/lens/search/patent/structured: Discovery and analytics tools on a comprehensive collection of patent literature with citation indexing. *(125M records)* - *PatCite* https://www.lens.org/lens/patcite: Analytics tool to mine citations in global patent literature to explore relationships between patents and scholarly literature to support decisions regarding research, funding, tech transfer and relationships with commercial entities. *(3.7M In patent and 1.3B Scholarly Citations)* - *PatSeq* https://www.lens.org/lens/bio: Search and analyze biological sequences disclosed in patent literature. *(300M Records)* In addition to the four Lens Apps, The Lens provides metrics and data management tools: - *In4M* https://www.lens.org/lens/in4m/rankings/global/locations: Analysis capabilities and open metrics are also provided to enable influence mapping of institutions on industry and innovation. - *Collections* https://www.lens.org/lens/user/collections: Registered users can curate their own collections of records and data visualizations and share those privately or publicly. - *Lens Reports* https://www.lens.org/lens/reports: Still in Alpha, Lens Reports is a new facility for creating evidence-based, open, sharable and reusable reports *linked to real Lens data and analytics. * The Lens is highly aligned to your values about inclusivity and openness with scholarly communication. We at *DaiKnow http://www.daiknow.com/ *are partners with The Lens and assisting them increase visibility and usage of the platform. We believe that The Lens would a great tool for institutions, administrators and researchers. Kindly do let us know if you would like us to set up a demo. Feel free to reach out to* lens@daiknow.com *to know more about the product or schedule a demo. Thanks, Chidananda