Welcome to the Apps for Library Idea Challenge

Know what your users need but not how to build it?
Got an idea for how to solve a problem but lack the resources?

Consider your and your users' day to day workflows in SciVerse (what’s this?). What is difficult or time consuming or not intuitive?

SciVerse Applications - Accelerate Science

Submit your app idea and if you win, you could see it become a SciVerse application

What can you add to the existing 33 apps?

App Example: Improve workflow with eReader Formats

App Example: Access institutional repositories with Illinois Catalog Viewer

App Example: Access public data resources with ODiSSea

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS AND ALL WHO PARTICIPATED!

Grand Prize (€750) - Judges' Choice: Journals/Conferences @ Your Fingertips
Grand Prize (€750) - Community Choice: JTOCs 2 Go
Contributor Prize Drawing (Samsung Galaxy Tab 16GB WiFi tablet): SciVerse Live Chat
10 Commenter Prizes Drawing (€35): Winners have been notified by email

The official announcement will be made at the Charleston Conference at the Plenary Session on Thursday morning. Please join us in congratulating the winners and everyone else who participated.

It now gets more interesting as we move to build the two winning app ideas. Stay tuned...

Please also attend the presentation by two of our judges, Rafael Sidi and Robert McDonald at 3:15 on Thursday, November 3rd at the Courtyard Marriott, Cooper Room. Rafael and Robert will discuss trends in research, proliferation of content via APIs and the creation of applications to advance search and discovery.

Review the finalists

Judging the ideas:

The following criteria will be used to judge the App Ideas:

Solves real problems or addresses needs for librarians and/or the SciVerse users you support
Possible to build with a reasonable amount of effort (what’s this?)
Broadly applicable and solves problems inherent across Academic or Government or Corporate institutions, not any one in particular
Identifies an innovative or novel approach

What will happen?

App Ideas will be judged by an international panel of judges as well as the Community. Ten Finalists will compete for two Grand Prizes while everyone who submits an eligible app idea or comment will be entered into a drawing for a Contributor Prize and ten Commenter Prizes, respectively.

Elsevier will explore developing the winning applications subject to Challenge conditions.

Prizes:

What is a SciVerse app?

SciVerse Applications are software programs that use information and data from SciVerse or external sources to add value to a user’s workflow in SciVerse. SciVerse applications are web-based (not mobile) and work in SciVerse Hub, ScienceDirect or Scopus.