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Digital Science announces Dimensions Research Strategy: AI analytics for research strategy on demand. Digital Science, a leading technology company serving stakeholders across the research ecosystem, announced its forthcoming Dimensions Research Strategy, an AI analytics platform built to reason through complex strategic questions the way a skilled research domain expert would – on demand, at scale, with full provenance on every finding. The platform, underpinned by Dimensions data, is being actively developed in partnership with research-intensive institutions, built for the senior leaders of such institutions and their research strategy teams, who need verifiable intelligence they can act on with confidence. [Full Announcement].

Kharon and Digital Science launch integration to strengthen research security. Kharon, the premier compliance technology and data provider spanning sanctions, export controls, and other economic restrictions, and Digital Science, a leading technology company serving stakeholders across the research ecosystem, today announce they have entered into a strategic partnership. The collaboration brings together Kharon's risk intelligence and Digital Science's world-leading Dimensions Research Security platform to help universities, funders, and government agencies identify and mitigate foreign influence, export control, and compliance risks, all while preserving the openness that drives global collaboration. [Full Announcement].

Indiana University selects Symplectic Elements as faculty activity reporting system. Digital Science, a technology company serving stakeholders across the research ecosystem, is pleased to announce that Indiana University has selected Symplectic Elements as its new faculty activity management and reporting system. This strategic decision marks a significant advancement toward the university's goals of streamlining the management and reporting of the work and accomplishments of its faculty. [Full Announcement].

Introducing the 2024 Catalyst Grant Awards. Digital Science is looking for the best and most innovative ways to address Research Integrity, with the winners receiving up to £25,000 equity-free funding. The Catalyst Grant is an international initiative to support innovation in new software tools and technologies to advance research and create meaningful change. The program supports and invests in early-stage ideas in the novel use of technology with an award of up to £25,000 for the most promising ideas that aid science and further its impact on society. This year, we are focusing on Research Integrity. [Full Announcement].

Open principles reaffirm Digital Science's commitment to open research. Digital Science has today launched its Open Principles, a new initiative that commits its research information solutions to open science now and into the future. The Principles are the first step in Digital Science's journey to align more closely with the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information from a global research consortium headed by Leiden University, announced earlier today. They are also a concrete articulation of Digital Science's long-held, core vision of a trusted, frictionless, collaborative research ecosystem that drives progress for all. Open research practices, and the development of open science tools and solutions, have been at the heart of Digital Science since its inception: [Full Announcement].

Launch of the Dimensions Knowledge Graph, powered by metaphactory. Digital Science solutions metaphacts and Dimensions announced the launch of the Dimensions Knowledge Graph, a large ready-made knowledge graph powering AI solutions in the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries. The Dimensions Knowledge Graph, powered by metaphactory, is an all-in-one knowledge graph solution, ready-made for easy integration with customers' data infrastructure and existing internal knowledge graphs. At its core is an explicitly defined and flexible semantic model that can be easily extended to include internal data (which can range from domain expert knowledge or data from internal documents) and harness the synergy of global research and internal knowledge to drive business decisions. Through a unified semantic layer, it connects data across all relevant sources and adds richness and context that simplifies and accelerates the generation of actionable insights grounded in evidence. [Full Announcement].

Digital Science announces innovative new research solutions from Dimensions, delivering insights from ~350 million publications, grants, patents and clinical trials through ChatGPT's conversational interface. Digital Science announced the launch of two new products – Dimensions Research GPT and Dimensions Research GPT Enterprise – bringing the unmatched, trusted research coverage of Dimensions to the ChatGPT platform. Users can get AI-generated answers to research-related questions on the GPT platform informed by Dimensions' huge database, making ChatGPT more research-specific for topic exploration. [Full Announcement].

Cassyni seminars integrated into Dimensions, further connecting research video into the scholarly ecosystem. Cassyni, the leading platform of research seminars, announced its latest strategic collaboration with Dimensions, among the world's largest linked research databases, to increase the discoverability of research seminars and further connect them to the scholarly ecosystem. Going forward, Cassyni seminars will be indexed in the Dimensions dataset. The inclusion of Cassyni's semantic video knowledge within the Dimensions' platform unlocks the potential to use research video for benchmarking, analytics and evaluation, significantly increasing its utility and relevance in the scholarly context. [Full Announcement].

AI for academia: Digital Science acquires Writefull to empower researchers and publishers. Digital Science announced it has acquired the AI-based academic language service Writefull, which assists users worldwide with all aspects of their scholarly writing. Writefull's AI language models are trained on billions of sentences taken from millions of journal articles. Matched with a firm commitment to data privacy, this means its models offer unparalleled assistance to users in academic writing, paraphrasing, copy editing and revisions. [Full Announcement].

Cardiff University chooses Figshare as integral part of research data management strategy. Digital Science, a technology company serving stakeholders across the research ecosystem, is pleased to announce that Cardiff University has chosen Figshare from Digital Science's flagship products to enhance its researcher support services, as it continues its work as a leading research institution. [Full Announcement].

Digital Science announces brand redesign for ReadCube and Papers. Digital Science announced that ReadCube, a leader in literature management, is unveiling a comprehensive repositioning of the brand. Papers – the longstanding reference manager – will now be a standalone consumer brand as ReadCube rapidly evolves its enterprise-level literature management and document delivery solutions. [Full Announcement].

University of Sussex connects Figshare to Symplectic Elements to create a joined-up research data management solution. Digital Science, a technology company serving stakeholders across the research ecosystem, is pleased to announce that the University of Sussex has successfully integrated Figshare and Symplectic Elements from Digital Science's flagship products to create a seamless, interoperable research information and data management solution. [Full Announcement].

Digital Science announces exclusive rollout of Dimensions AI Assistant beta version. Digital Science announced a limited and exclusive beta launch of Dimensions AI Assistant, a new research tool designed to enhance how users engage with the wealth of knowledge available on Dimensions, among the world's largest linked research databases. Dimensions AI Assistant utilizes advanced AI capabilities to provide users with semantically rich summaries and contextualized results, surpassing traditional keyword-based searches. [Full Announcement].

Digital Science expands executive team for AI future. Digital Science has expanded its Executive Team to reflect its current steep growth trajectory and further develop its market-leading capabilities in Artificial Intelligence and related technologies. [Full Announcement].

App uses AI to track Trust Markers across tens of millions of publications. Digital Science company Dimensions has today launched its new Dimensions Research Integrity app, enabling users to ensure the highest standards of research integrity and helping to build global trust in research. The Dimensions Research Integrity app uses AI to track the presence of several Trust Markers across tens of millions of publications worldwide. Developed for universities, funders and publishers, the app's users can analyze these Trust Markers related to their organization, and for any organization of the same type. [Full Announcement].

Announcing the launch of Dimensions Modules&Apps. Dimensions is launching Dimensions Modules&Apps, the innovative analytical and workflow apps that give Dimensions users a new level of data analysis and discovery. Each one is designed to solve specific research problems, drawing insights from the world's largest linked research information database. With more data than any other provider, and with 70% of publications, for which we have worked with publishers to improve the records by indexing the full-text, Dimensions builds on an already powerful search application, with an app infrastructure that combines visual discovery with search, providing you with answers for a vast range of research challenges and common use cases. [Full Announcement].

Figshare partners with African Library and Information Associations and Institutions. Figshare, part of Digital Science, has formed a new partnership with the African Library and Information Associations and Institutions, which is committed to open data and information sharing across Africa. The partnership is aimed at promoting open data awareness and participation in Africa, to improve access to and use of open data across the continent. [Full Announcement].

Leeds Beckett University launches Figshare-powered repository. Leeds Beckett University, in partnership with Figshare, announces the launch of a new institutional repository. The new Thesis and Research Data Repository is supported on a custom domain, ensuring long-term sustainability of the repository. The repository will support the storing and sharing of theses and research data, providing a single place for researchers to make their data citable and discoverable. [Full Announcement].

Digital Science acquires knowledge graph and decision intelligence software company metaphacts. Digital Science has completed the acquisition of metaphacts, which has become the newest member of the Digital Science family. Based in Germany, metaphacts is a knowledge graph and decision intelligence software company. Its main product metaphactory is a platform that supports customers in accelerating their adoption of knowledge graphs and driving knowledge democratization. Knowledge graphs are knowledge bases that use graph-structured, semantic data models to interlink data and support intuitive search and exploration of knowledge. [Full Announcement].

Dr Alison Mitchell joins Digital Science Executive Team. Digital Science, a technology company serving stakeholders across the research ecosystem, announced that Dr Alison Mitchell is joining the company in the newly established role of Chief of Staff. [Full Announcement].