[Eril-l] Putting AI to Work for Researchers and Practitioners

[Susan Spilka]

I am reaching out on behalf of Atypon, to invite you to take a look at Scitrus, a smart and free tool developed for researchers and practitioners to combat research information overload. I would appreciate your sharing this news in your reporting on the industry, to help more researchers, practitioners, faculty, students, and librarians discover and take advantage of a no-cost, new resource.
Scitrus is an interdisciplinary discovery and recommendation tool that combines the latest information in a field (or multiple fields) of study into a single, magazine-styled feed. It’s free to all and user friendly: All you need to do register for an account and set up your profile selecting topics, journals, and authors that you want to follow. These choices will generate a personal feed of the most relevant articles, news, preprints, events, and citation alerts distilled daily from over 30,000 top sources across the web, including Crossref (representing all publishers through registered DOIs) Microsoft Academic, arXiv, BioRxiv, SSRN eLibrary, PEERJ, PUBMED Central, F1000 Research, Wellcome Open Research, and Preprints.org) – as well as more mainstream sources and sites.
Scitrus uses machine learning to identify (upon publication) content, news, and events germane to each unique user’s interests, filter out what isn’t worth their time and attention, and generate a single personalized feed that prioritizes items by relevance.It adapts each feed based on a user’s interactions with it, updating the relevancy and currency of what they see each time they visit the site. The more Scitrus is used, the faster its algorithm learns the user’s interests and preferences and is able to deliver a precisely curated feed.
Not only is Scitrus’s content filtering personalized and smart, its unique layout engine further individualizes the reading experience by showing more content from the most important and relevant items. Users can specify their preferred sources, control the degree of filtering, and save content to read later.
Scitrus is is homegrown, developed by researchers who understand the scholarly community. Researchers and practitioners report being overwhelmed by the volume of information they need to follow. There is simply too much content from too many sources to effectively stay on top of the important research and news in rapidly evolving fields -- even those that are highly specialized. Adding to that challenge is the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of research, which makes tracking important developments and insights that much more difficult. Scitrus users say they spend less time sorting through alerts and searching for the latest research, and more time reading and applying it to their work. They report how much they like its attractive design and simplicity.
Scitrus is one of a suite of resources Atypon is creating for researchers to facilitate the dissemination of knowledge. It was launched with Manuscripts, the collaborative, academic editor of the future. A revised version of RemarQ is also underway and all of these resources will be tied up together with Connect, a single account for accessing all the academic resources and applications a researcher needs.Please set up a free Scitrus profile (at www.scitrus.com to learn more about it. 

Best,
Susan Spilka


SusanSpilka at tbicommunications.com
(516) 315-7721
www.tbicommunications.com
@tbicomms
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