The Drexel Research Discovery database is a Research Information Management System built to help institutions showcase their research and measure its influence by capturing, managing, and disseminating research outputs and data. It seamlessly integrates data with existing library and research workflows.
Overview
The Drexel Research Discovery supports many functions including faculty profiles, publications dashboards, research reports, and grant applications. It generates dynamic faculty profiles that can be easily edited, customized, and leveraged. The Drexel Library team began building the database about 2 years ago. The collection will soon pass 100K publications. In addition, the database contains more than 1400 public researcher profiles, all of which update automatically when new research is published.
Why Use It?
- Amplify internal communication and collaboration
- Integrate with campus and external systems, such as ORCID, sciENcv/Biosketch, Web of Science, ...)
- Ensure data accuracy
- Offer stakeholders accessible and visible data –such as grant awards and publications– from respected sources.
- Share custom visualizations, data dashboards, and faculty profiles
- Save time and money - automatic updates from multiple sources
- Provides easy-to-edit customizable faculty profiles:
Everyone Benefits
- Academic and Administrative units – Data collection, data accuracy, benchmarking, local and central reporting
- Faculty – Directly control own profile, add datasets/files, auto-generate a CV, gain real-time metrics
- Media – Make more compelling media pitches with up-to-date faculty publications and metrics
- Marketing and Communications – Display dynamic research content/dashboards across webpages and socials
- Prospects – Quickly gain insight into the research activity of specific academic programs and affiliated faculty
- Recruitment – Share faculty research activity, theses and dissertations as a pull for prospective grad students
- Research – Enhance grant application process, collaboration across institutions, and reporting
