The Ohio Department of Higher Education Working with Digital Science to Develop a Statewide Research Expertise Portal in New $1.5m Project
Unique public portal will increase visibility of Ohio's university research programs, promote faculty expertise, and showcase campus facilities and equipment critical to the innovation process to industry partners
COLUMBUS, Ohio, August 1, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Research technology company Digital Science announced today that it has embarked on a project with the Ohio Department of Higher Education to work in partnership with the Ohio Technology Consortium (OH-TECH) to highlight Ohio's biomedical and engineering faculty and to showcase Ohio's campus facilities and equipment critical to the innovation process. Named the Ohio Innovation Exchange (OIEx), this new research expertise portal will support inter-institutional collaborations, enhance connections with industry, and further assist technology commercialization across the state of Ohio.
The Ohio Innovation Exchange is a new initiative developed with six university partners: Case Western Reserve University, Ohio University, The Ohio State University, Cleveland State University, The University of Akron, and the University of Cincinnati – with sponsorship from the Ohio Department of Higher Education and accompanied by strong industry support through the Ohio Manufacturing Institute.
This innovative knowledge management framework will ultimately provide users with interactive tools to connect faculty, staff, and students with industry partners in new information-driven ways. The portal will help business gain access to high-end equipment, allow industry to tap into the next generation of employees, forge and seed new R&D partnerships, strengthen the supply chain, and ultimately stimulate job opportunities across Ohio.
This intuitive and innovative technology platform provided by Digital Science leverages a combination of off-the-shelf products designed to increase visibility and raise the awareness of research. It will serve multiple audiences and make use of:
- Dimensions: a research insights platform that links together grants, publications, patents, clinical trials, and policy documents to provide a more complete view of global research activity. The Dimensions structure and capabilities included within the portal will enable users to track research trends, identify people and research groups of interest to promote academic-industry-public sector engagement and collaboration, and provide the public search and discovery capabilities.
- Symplectic Elements: a leading Research Information Management system will become the definitive source of faculty and equipment data surfaced in the OIEx public portal. Elements will be used to collate faculty profiles and other related research information sourced from multiple institutional systems, and in doing so will become a unique source of research activity data for the state of Ohio.
The Ohio Technology Consortium (OH-TECH) acts as the broker for institutional asset data, provides leadership for the project, and supports the ingest of critical and relevant data from Ohio's institutions while supporting the secure user profiles.
Daniel Hook, MD of Digital Science, said: "Winning a competitive statewide tender was a major milestone for Digital Science and we are thrilled to be part of this truly collaborative project. The OIEx portal project will allow us to further enhance data integrations between Symplectic Elements and Dimensions and we very much hope the resulting platform will be used by industry partners, faculty, and public alike to discover and connect with those conducting innovative research across the state of Ohio."
The new platform will be available in September 2018.
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About Digital Science
Digital Science is a technology company serving the needs of scientific and research communities at key points along the full cycle of research. It invests in and incubates research software companies that simplify the research cycle, making more time for discovery. Its portfolio companies include a host of leading brands including Altmetric, BioRAFT, Figshare, Labguru, Overleaf, ReadCube, GRID, Symplectic and ÜberResearch. It is operated by global media company, the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Visit http://www.digital-science.com and follow @digitalsci on Twitter.
About Symplectic Elements
Symplectic is a leading developer of Research Information Management systems. Founded in 2003, Symplectic's flagship product Elements is used by over 330,000 researchers, repository managers and librarians at over 90 of the world's top institutions including the University of Oxford, University of Melbourne, and Duke University. For more information, visit http://www.symplectic.info and follow @symplectic on Twitter.
About Dimensions
Dimensions is a linked research knowledge system that re-imagines discovery and access to research. Developed by Digital Science in collaboration with over 100 leading research organizations around the world, Dimensions brings together grants, publications, citations, alternative metrics, clinical trials and patents to deliver a platform that enables users to find and access the most relevant information faster, analyze the academic and broader outcomes of research, and gather insights to inform future strategy. Visit https://dimensions.ai and follow on Twitter @DSDimensions.
About the Ohio Department of Higher Education and OH-TECH
The Ohio Department of Higher Education is a Cabinet-level agency for the Governor of the State of Ohio that oversees higher education for the state.
The Ohio Technology Consortium (OH-TECH) is the umbrella organization for Ohio's statewide academic technology and library (OhioLINK) networking infrastructure.
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