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Features: Elsevier introduces SciVal: Performance planning and funding solutions

Elsevier introduces SciVal: Performance planning and funding solutions
By Daniel Calto, Director of Product Management, Elsevier, New York, NY, USA

In 2009, Elsevier is starting to provide information and workflow tools that help researchers and institutional decision makers evaluate, establish and execute their research strategies.

These new tools will give institutional leaders, researchers and administrators innovative solutions helping them to better achieve the aims of the research university or institute: namely, the production and advancement of knowledge in critical areas ranging from cancer research to mathematics to the economics of developing countries.

Under the new SciVal brand, starting this year, Elsevier will offer a full spectrum of workflow solutions addressing performance and planning needs at all levels of research institutions. This suite of solutions will allow universities and government agencies to better understand and manage their research portfolios, and ultimately to improve the quality and effectiveness of the research enterprise at their respective institutions.

SciVal Spotlight and
SciVal Funding

Launching this year, SciVal Spotlight and SciVal Funding are the first two of Elsevier's new solutions. As will be the case with all of Elsevier's SciVal offerings, these two new solutions have been designed based on feedback from the research community, from individual researchers to research administrators to senior institutional leadership.

SciVal Spotlight allows institutional leaders to identify distinctive areas of research strength within their institutions and make key decisions based on high-quality data derived from Scopus.

Under the new SciVal brand, starting this year, Elsevier will offer a full spectrum of workflow solutions addressing performance and planning needs at all levels of research institutions.

The information and insights gained by SciVal Spotlight will help leaders to:

• Identify specific areas of research excellence, and emerging strengths, to use as comparative measures of performance among other institutions;
• Identify new research opportunities by displaying areas of expertise in a multidisciplinary view;
• Review competitive standing by tracking performance against major competitors for each area of research, and determine areas of research leadership that are at potential risk of being overtaken by competition; and
• Search for collaborators by determining potential sources for research collaboration.

SciVal Funding addresses the urgent need to find comprehensive funding opportunity information for researchers at all levels of the institution, from graduate students to senior faculty. It not only delivers targeted and relevant funding opportunities based on prepopulated publication profiles, but also gives the user detailed information on successful grant recipients and which publications have resulted from those grants. This information can maximize a researcher's chances of obtaining funding in a very difficult funding environment, and can be used by research administrators to analyze funding trends to better support their faculty's grant submissions and guide them to success.

SciVal Spotlight and SciVal Funding are the first two of Elsevier's new solutions.

In the pipeline

Besides SciVal Spotlight and SciVal Funding, another solution aimed at research management is now in development. It will allow universities to improve management of their specific research portfolios and track individual faculty productivity with more precise and flexible metrics.

Also, a version of SciVal Spotlight targeted to the needs of government customers is in early planning stages. And, as Elsevier creates a long-term strategic plan geared to meet the needs of our customers, other possibilities for new solutions are being explored.

If you'd like to find out more about SciVal Spotlight or SciVal Funding, please speak with your Elsevier account manager or account development manager.

d.calto@elsevier.com
www.info.spotlight.scival.com
www.info.funding.scival.com
www.elsevier.com/contacts/librarians