From: Casey Busher <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 11:45:30 -0700 *With apologies for cross posting* Dear Colleagues, We're very excited to announce the beta launch of bepress's Expert Gallery, which integrates with other bepress products and represents an important expansion of our offerings and vision. The Expert Gallery is the latest addition to a growing suite of services designed to help institutions promote and report on their faculty's expertise. ******* bepress Launches Beta of Expert Gallery to Promote Research Expertise August 9, 2016 We at bepress are excited to announce the beta launch of the Expert Gallery, a new product for institutions eager to highlight the rich expertise of their faculty. The Expert Gallery facilitates the valuable work of connecting an institution’s researchers with opportunities that might otherwise be missed. Groups such as Marketing and Communications and the Office of Research can use the product to better land funding opportunities, speaking engagements, and professional collaborations for top faculty members. The Expert Gallery is designed to let stakeholders within and outside of the institution find researchers by interest, skill set, and research emphasis: simple searching and browsing, along with the flexibility to create and display custom galleries, helps facilitate targeted discovery for experts on campus. A built-in, rich toolset lets institutions organize, manage, and connect their researchers to the right opportunities and interested parties outside the institution. While most expert galleries contain just biographical information and a bibliography, integration of the bepress Expert Gallery with SelectedWorks profiles lets researchers prove their expertise with a full picture of their scholarly research, including published and unpublished works, datasets, teaching materials, and media appearances. Launching the Expert Gallery as a new product reflects an important expansion of bepress’s mission. For years we’ve helped libraries reclaim their central role through providing services across campus. We’ve especially focused on supporting the library in its important efforts to promote the institution through the scholarship it produces. With the Expert Gallery, the library can meet its campus’s needs to go beyond demonstrating the value of its scholarship. Now the library can offer a way to promote the institution through the rich skills of the people who make it unique. We plan to continue on this path of helping institutions maximize the impact of people as well as their people’s scholarship. In early 2017 we will launch a suite of services that includes SelectedWorks, the Expert Gallery, and a set of faculty reporting and analytics tools. About bepress Founded by professors in 1999, bepress exists to help academic communities maximize the impact of their research and demonstrate their value. In addition to the growing suite that includes the Expert Gallery and SelectedWorks, bepress offers Digital Commons, the leading hosted institutional repository software platform that lets institutions manage, display, and publish scholarship to the web in a beautiful, highly visible showcase. Over 450 institutions use bepress products to collect, preserve, and make visible the full range of their intellectual output. -- Casey Busher Director of Communications bepress 510-665-1200 x182 http://www.bepress.com