The content aggregation process from many different sources, from Europe and beyond, enables to cover all the European and International area. Thus, it allows scientific output cross-linked with different funders to produce advanced statistics (e.g. co-funded research results, research trends, etc.).
Ultimately our concern is to:
- Assist in the monitoring of open research results;
- Reveal research clusters and trends for better return on investment for all European citizens;
- More analytics and trends based on open protocols and agreements with repositories;
- Retrieve repository content (text in pdf or xml) and apply text mining algorithms to perform advanced research analytics.
Making a difference
Furthermore, using topic modeling mechanisms we discover hidden thematic structure in the OA scientific literature. We then extend this analysis to identify useful patterns, similarities, correlations trends and communities in order to get insight on national or funder specific programmes and schemes.
As a funder you can support the scholarly communication environment via these concrete steps:
- Support repositories to include funding information in their bibliographic metadata. This helps join up systems!
- Expose basic and public information (i.e. Funder name / Project ID) to repositories.
If this happens, everything can be streamlined. Results can be automatically monitored and reported back to funders.