1.1. What is a SciVerse Application?
1.2. What are some examples of SciVerse Applications?
1.3. Can SciVerse Applications work on mobile devices?
1.4. What is a good app for SciVerse?
2.1. Who is eligible to enter an app idea or comments?
2.2. Can I submit an idea for a mobile app or an app that runs outside of SciVerse?
2.3. What will happen with my idea once I submit it?
2.4. How will app ideas be judged?
2.5. What are the prizes?
2.6. How will my personal information be used?
3.1. Who is Elsevier?
3.2. What is SciVerse?
SciVerse Applications are software programs that use information and data from SciVerse or external sources to enhance a user’s workflow. SciVerse applications may be built by Elsevier or 3rd party developers and are web-based (not mobile). They work in ScienceDirect or Scopus or Hub and all, to date, are free. See the below for examples of how apps integrate into SciVerse.
You can learn more by watching this 3 minute video and at the Resources page.
Check out the applications already devleoped, or visit the Gallery and try an application for yourself or your institution. They’re free!
Identify the most prolific authors for a particular search term and view a visual network of their co-authors including strength of connection. Identify connections and individuals to track for future reference. Visit App profile in the Gallery.
Share articles to Facebook, Twitter or CiteULike with one click. Visit App profile in the Gallery.
This application automatically searches for workflows, files and groups in myExperiment ™ as you search in SciVerse Hub or ScienceDirect. The results are shown on the search results page. Or, enter your query directly into the application to submit to myExperiment ™. Visit App profile in the Gallery.
My Workflow Search application allows you to search for workflows in myExperiment ™ from your SciVerse Hub Homepage. It can also be used when you submit a query in SciVerse Hub, the application will run your query through myExperiment ™. Visit App profile in the Gallery.
The Genome Viewer provides functionality for viewing and analyzing sequence data of genes mentioned in articles in ScienceDirect. Visit App profile in the Gallery.
Extract and aggregate data from the Elsevier ScienceDirect corpus that is associated with a user query. Data can be visualized as a histogram or timeline to illustrate science and technology landscapes and trends. Visit App profile in the Gallery.
Save ScienceDirect article abstracts and/or references to Evernote so you can build, tag, manage and share your library of noteworthy references or build the bibliography section for your paper to publish. Visit App profile in the Gallery.
View a visual network of an author’s co-authors including strength of connection. Identify connections and individuals to track for future reference. Visit App profile in the Gallery.
Hazmat Navigator provides detailed reactivity, toxicity and handling information on over 7,000 hazardous chemicals to help prevent accidents and to enable scientists and lab personnel to deal with spills safely. Visit App profile in the Gallery.
Shows an interaction network of proteins and chemicals mentioned in the paper found via Reflect (http://reflect.ws). Visit App profile in the Gallery.
The Reflect – Chemicals application lists chemicals mentioned in the paper, found via Reflect (http://reflect.ws). Visit App profile in the Gallery.
Lists proteins found in the paper via Reflect (http://reflect.ws), initially for the most frequently mentioned organism.
The Section Search application allows targeted search focused within one or more sections of Elsevier full text articles. Zero in on conclusions, methods, results, discussion, even captions by selecting the sections you wish to search.
The eReader Formats application allows users to convert ScienceDirect articles as seen in the browser into ePUB or Mobipocket format, whichever is appropriate for the user’s electronic reader device. Visit App profile in the Gallery.
The NextBio auto-complete SearchAssist application enables users to leverage the power of NextBio’s ontology to search Hub.
The Table Download application scans a ScienceDirect article for HTML data tables in the full text. The tables can be downloaded to a CSV file suitable for importing into Excel or similar software. Visit App profile in the Gallery.
Quickly find the most relevant review articles in your Scopus search results with the Top Reviews application. Visit App profile in the Gallery.
Helps identify in what years the most research was published on a given subject. The Search Term Timeline is powered by SCOPUS and takes advantage of the millions of records indexed in that database. Visit App profile in the Gallery.
Expand your query with standard ontologies and search public data resources via NCBO (National Center for Biomedical Ontology) for additional information on clinical trials, genes, drugs and funding. Visit App profile in the Gallery.
Allows you to see how many users of Mendeley have added a ScienceDirect article to their library and information about those users. Visit App profile in the Gallery.
Find experts in Computer Science and view profiles based on information of Arnetminer.org. Visit App profile in the Gallery.
Track a summary of the latest oncology articles published in Science Direct. Researchers can identify and track new oncology publications of interest using filters such as tumor and article types. Visit App profile in the Gallery.
More By These Authors shows you the most recent documents in Scopus by the authors of the article you are currently viewing. Visit App profile in the Gallery.
Recommend This! allows you to recommend an article in ScienceDirect to Facebook ™. This application was built using the ScienceDirect and the Facebook Like Button APIs. Visit App profile in the Gallery.
HealthMash suggests biomedical concepts related to your query, e.g. diseases, treatments, drugs and biomarkers. You can use these to discover other relevant items in SciVerse. HealthMash will ultimately cover more than 4 million concepts and their relationships in its Health Knowledge Base ontology. Visit App profile in the Gallery.
TWC’s Data.gov Dataset Search application searches across over 300,000 US government datasets to find the data most relevant to your SciVerse inquiry. Search results include the source agency, keywords and a direct link to the raw dataset on the Data.gov site. Visit App profile in the Gallery.
The Search Translator translates your non-English search query and performs a search utilizing the translated query on SciVerse Hub. Visit App profile in the Gallery.
The Matching Sentences application shows you your search terms embedded in their original, complete sentences in the results. Visit App profile in the Gallery.
The Prolific Authors application helps you to identify authorities in your field, and quickly get an overview of their peer reviewed work in Scopus. Visit App profile in the Gallery.
The Methods Search application helps you find the methods you need for your research. Visit App profile in the Gallery.
Quickly find the most authoritative articles in your search results with the MostCited application. Powered by Scopus. Visit App profile in the Gallery.
Keep track of the latest trends and developments in your specialty with ScienceDirect’s Top 25 Hottest Articles. Visit App profile in the Gallery.
Search the University of Illinois VuFind online catalog in parallel with SciVerse Hub and view relevant results side by side. The target audience for this service is anyone affiliated with the University of Illinois. Visit App profile in the Gallery.
SciVerse Applications are web-based apps, not mobile, but anyone with a smart phone or a tablet with a browser and an Internet connection can obviously access SciVerse.
There are a number of considerations involved in assessing the viability of an app in SciVerse:
Check out the apps available today in the Gallery, try them out and see what you think. Can you see them helping you or your users? Do you have a better idea or an improvement? Submit it.
The Apps for Library Idea Challenge is open to anyone over the age of 21. Entrants may be subject to rules imposed by their employer/institution and should check with their employer/institution for any relevant policies including eligibility for prizes. You can learn more at the Rules page.
No, this Challenge is for web-based applications only that run on SciVerse.
All submitted app ideas will be evaluated per the Challenge Rules. All eligible ideas will be provided to the judges to select the group of 10 Finalists. These Finalists will be exposed to the community for comment and ultimately for judging. All eligible app ideas will be publicly posted after the Challenge ends so that prospective developers can build real applications to address the community needs.
App Idea entries will be evaluated based on a mix of the following criteria:
An international panel of judges will select up to ten Finalist entries. The judges and the community of participants will then vote to award the two Grand Prize winners, respectively. Please read the official Rules for the Challenge for further details.
Two Grand Prize winners will each receive a cash prize of €750 (approximately $1,000 USD). The winners’ names and concepts will also be featured in an Elsevier library journal.
One Contributor prize for a Samsung Galaxy Tab WiFi tablet will be awarded in a random drawing. All who submit eligible app ideas will be entered.
Ten Commenter prizes for €35 (approximately $50 USD) will be awarded in a random drawing. All who submit eligible comments will be entered.
Please read the official Rules for the Challenge for further details.
We will not share your personal information with 3rd parties. Please see the Elsevier Privacy Policy for more details.
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The SciVerse suite of search and discovery offerings provides the global research community access to a constantly expanding universe of content and solutions which can now be accessed in one platform. The suite currently includes:
ScienceDirect, the world’s largest source of peer-reviewed content containing more than 10 million articles.
Scopus, an abstract and citation database containing 41 million records, 70% with abstracts and nearly 18,000 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide.
SciVerse Hub beta, which enables researchers to perform a single search across all of the SciVerse content as well as targeted web content with results ranked by relevancy and without duplication.
SciVerse Applications beta, a new module within the suite, is a marketplace and developer network that allows the scientific community to build, find and use applications that enhance the SciVerse research experience.
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