As academic libraries explore additional opportunities for supporting the research enterprise, one high priority is to showcase all institutional research on the university’s research portal.

Esploro, Ex Libris cloud-based research information management solution, now includes Smart Harvesting technology that enables institutions to aggregate research assets from external sources, including the Ex Libris Central Discovery Index (CDI), disciplinary repositories, and national repositories. Experience already shows a significant increase in the number of outputs in the institution's research repository, with richer metadata, so that publications and other research outputs are made more discoverable.

This webinar will discuss smart harvesting and what it means for the library and the research office, including a behind-the-scenes look at author matching and disambiguation.