BibApp 1.0 – a campus research gateway and expert finder
This matches researchers from a research institution with their publication data and mines that data to see collaborations, create visualizations of areas of research, and find experts in research areas.
With BibApp, it should be possible to see what publications can be placed on the Web for greater access and impact: the application is also able to push those publications directly into an institutional repository. BibApp has been developed by two leading US universities in order to allow researchers and research groups to promote research, find collaborators on campus, and make research more accessible. It also attempts to allow libraries to better understand research happening in local departments, facilitate conversations about author rights with researchers, and ease the population of the institutional repository. BibApp also looks to allow campus administrators to achieve a clearer picture of collaboration and scholarly publishing trends on campus. This may kind of resource development may influence policy as to implementing such a facility for researchers and librarians to develop research profile for an institution.
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Publication: BibApp, 2010. BibApp is a collaboration between University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA and University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.