From: Susan Spilka <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 12:47:00 +0000
I am reaching out on behalf of Atypon, to invite you to take a look at
Scitrus <https://www.scitrus.com/>, a smart new tool developed for
researchers and practitioners to combat research information overload. I
would appreciate your sharing this news so that librarians, students, and
faculty (in their roles as instructors and researchers) can discover and
take advantage of a free, new resource.
Scitrus is a powerful and interdisciplinary discovery and recommendation
tool that combines all of 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.
*For Researchers:* Scitrus is unique in the way that it 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. Scitrus 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.
Part of what distinguishes Scitrus is that it is homegrown, developed by
researchers who understand the scholarly community. Scholarly 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 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.
*For Societies and Publishers:* Another feature of Scitrus is that by
matching content to individual researchers, it delivers precision-targeted
audiences to scholarly societies and publishers. It offers a variety of
opportunities for these organizations to enhance the discovery of their
published content, drive traffic to their publication websites, sponsor
sidebar channels membership, and engage directly with researchers amid
their workflow.
We invite you to set up a free Scitrus profile (at *www.scitrus.com
<http://www.scitrus.com>* to learn more about it. Please feel free to get
in touch if you have any questions.
Best,
Susan Spilka
[log in to unmask]
(516) 315-7721
www.tbicommunications.com
@tbicomms
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