Northwestern University Joins VIVO Network with Elsevier's SciVal Experts

Northwestern University Joins VIVO Network with Elsevier's SciVal Experts PR Newswire NEW YORK, August 9, 2012 NEW YORK, August 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Expertise Profiling Application Enables Researchers to Find Collaborators Throughout Northwestern University and Across VIVO Northwestern University, in collaboration with Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced its participation in VIVO, a semantic network that enables the discovery of researchers across institutions. By bringing its researchers together in a single hub called Northwestern Scholars, an implementation of Elsevier's SciVal Experts research networking tool, and connecting to VIVO through SciVal, Northwestern University facilitates collaboration and accelerates knowledge discovery within the organization and with other research institutions throughout the United States and beyond. Northwestern Scholars provides the Northwestern University research community, other research organizations and the public with a networking website and searchable database to discover Northwestern faculty members' individual research ®expertise. The hub is populated with publication data from Elsevier's Scopus database and Northwestern University's own grants and faculty appointment data as well as investigators' curriculum vitae data.