Infoscience : goal of 100,000 marks the opening of a new service
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October 1, 2013, the Center for Research in Plasma Physics uploaded the 100,000th Infoscience publication in the EPFL institutional repository! Moreover, for the past few weeks, each researcher can access a personal page, "My Profile", which allows to see for example his most downloaded publications.
Launched in 2004, Infoscience allows researchers to give their scientific publications better visibility. The author can upload his publications on Infoscience, thenpost them on his lab website, through his "people epfl.ch." profile or on his personal pages. It also ensures excellent visibility since Infoscience is indexed by the major search engines (Google Scholar, for example).
Over the years, depositing publications has been vastly simplified. If your publication is already registered in another database (Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed , arXiv ...) or already has a digital object identifier (DOI), you'll avoid the copy/paste tedium describing your publication: Infoscience will automatically complete all the information. Also, while sending the PDF file associated with the publication, Infoscience informs you directly on your rights to publish the full text for the paper in question, thanks to a connection with the Sherpa/Romeo service.
Furthermore, since 2011, Infoscience consults the Web of Science to see whether EPFL members have new publications. If this is the case, the metadata are added on Infoscience and the laboratory concerned is notified so that it validates the process and appends the PDF’s in Open Access if possible.
Out the 100,000 publications on infoscience, 32,000 have associated full text (usually in PDF format). In 2012, these 32,000 full texts have been downloaded over 8 million times, for an average of 250 downloads per publication! Infoscience thus greatly contributes to the circulation of results of research conducted at the EPFL.
New feature: my Infoscience profile
The new dashboard has been launched: each researcher can view different information on his own publications (or those of his laboratory) present in Infoscience. He can see, for example, which publications were downloaded the most. For papers published after 2008, there’s an equal opportunity to consult the citations from the Web of Science.
Different bibliometric information is provided as h-index in Google Scholar or ResearcherID. It is also possible to view the distribution of publications by year of issue or by journal titles and to know which publication you could append the full text to. Want to learn more? Feel free to send your questions and comments to: [email protected]