Researchers can now showcase AI-generated summaries of their work directly on their public profiles in Symplectic Elements, making it easier for others to discover and engage with their research without added administrative effort.
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Today, Digital Science announced enhancements to Symplectic Elements, allowing researchers to embed AI-generated summaries for publication abstracts within their public profiles.
Symplectic Elements, a leading research information management system (RIMS), enables the creation of comprehensive public profiles. These profiles are hosted on sleek, modern, and intuitive online portals that offer advanced search and discovery capabilities while ensuring alignment with organizational branding. Profiles can be made available not only for researchers and faculty but also for equipment, services, and other institutional resources.
Symplectic Elements currently underpins the profiling portals for over 70 organizations, including academic institutions (such as University College London, University of Oxford, and Virginia Tech), consortia (Ohio Innovation Exchange), and governmental organizations (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation).
With the introduction of cutting-edge AI functionality, abstract summaries can now be displayed within a researcher's public profile. These AI summaries can be generated on-demand by a visitor to provide a concise, at-a-glance synopsis of research outputs. Using the publication title and abstract as a source, the Dimensions-powered system generates a summary, key highlights, and top keywords, helping visitors quickly assess the relevance of output to their research - increasing the discoverability of research work without adding extra administrative burden to faculty members. This new AI summarization functionality operates in a private and secure environment, and opt-out is available at both an institutional/organizational level and at an individual level.
"AI is transforming the way we manage and share information, and Digital Science is proud to lead the way with solutions that enable the academic community to maximize its research impact," said Jonathan Breeze, EVP of Academic Markets at Digital Science. "Adding AI-powered summaries to Symplectic Elements public profiles will aid research discoverability and demonstrates Digital Science's commitment to using AI technologies to support the research community."
"This is another step in Digital Science's program of AI-based product enhancements that work synergistically with research workflows," said Daniel Hook, CEO of Digital Science. "Part of being a responsible contributor to infrastructure in the scholarly space is to ensure that new functionality is augmentative and safe to use, and we pride ourselves on an incremental approach designed to support researchers at all stages of their career."