The Library recently added a co-authorship visualization to the Scholarly Publications Database (SPD, http://library.ust.hk/spd).  Clicking on the link in the profile page of our faculty staff displays a graph showing their connected co-authors.

 

This visualized relationship graph provides an entry point for users to navigate through the network of HKUST researchers.  By clicking on the red nodes representing HKUST co-authors in the graph, users can identify the group of HKUST researchers who work on the same or similar research areas.  Through their Scholar Profiles, further information about the researchers can be obtained, including their profile details, list of publications, bibliometrics, research interests and projects.

 

SPD was jointly developed by VPRGO and the Library a few years ago.  The database receives heavy use, with about 490,000 page views recorded in the 2013/14 academic year. The Library is committed to adding new features and updating its content.  In addition to the new co-authorship feature, we have recently integrated the HKUST Institutional Repository (IR) with SPD.  The new interface, which was released in late July, allows users to not only discover the richness of the scholarly publications and profiles of our researchers but also to have open access to documents deposited to the IR by our researchers.