New citation database launches

[Rajesh S]

Dear all,

A new citation database called Dimensions launched a few weeks ago,

which could be an alternative to Web of Science or Scopus.

For those of us who don’t have access to those products, Dimensions

runs on a freemium model, allowing anyone to utilize basic functions

while its owners hope that organizations and universities pay for

higher level functionality and support.

Users in the free version should find the functionality much like

other citation databases, being able to search by subject keywords,

journal title, author name and, say, university name. (I've run a few

searches and it feels similar to Scopus.)

The free version of this tool could be very helpful to researchers:

helping find the names of journals publishing in specific disciplines

(and the quality of those journals), providing papers/citations in

those disciplines and maybe even potential collaborators.  Those

paying for the premium version would also be able to get information

on grants, clinical trials and patents — and presumably more metric

tools.

Here is link for the Dimensions site: https://www.dimensions.ai/

Here is the link to the discovery tool:

https://app.dimensions.ai/discover/publication

Dimensions has a lot more tools than I’ve briefly mentioned. Here are

a few stories that explain them.

Inside Higher Ed: Democratizing Research Funding Data

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/01/15/corporation-strives-democratize-access-research-funding-data

Information Today: Digital Science Adds Extra Dimensions to Scholarly

Research Data

http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Digital-Science-Adds-Extra-Dimensions-to-Scholarly-Research-Data-122744.asp

Nature: Science search engine links papers to grants and patents:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00688-0

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Thanks and Regards

SAKILAM RAJESH
Librarian

SIBM-HYD

Symbiosis Hyderabad Campus
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