HEDS is part of the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield. We undertake research, teaching, training and consultancy on all aspects of health related decision science, with a particular emphasis on health economics, HTA and evidence synthesis.

Monday 27 January 2020

Website of the Month for January - Lens.Org

This month's website is one that has just appeared on our eye line called Lens.org. Looking similar to Digital Science's Dimensions platform. Lens.org is another in the growing number of academic intelligence and analytics databases.


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Lens.org
Lens.org key functions include

Patent Search and Analysis
Patent search capabilities offer advanced boolean functions, structured search, biological search, classification search, filtering and sorting options to find the most relevant and important patents.

Discover Experts & Collaborators
Explore which scholarly works have influenced what patents and who is using scholarly work to build products and services. Dynamic and interrogable, identify and visualise important linkages and explore networks of collaborations, leading to better partnerships and delivering outcomes of value.

Collections, Portfolios and Reports
Create, annotate and share collections of your patent and scholarship portfolio. Create and publish collections of patents or scholarship, explore these collections to understand who does what, when and where, who influences whom: to inform decision-making for partnering, for investing or for research trajectories.

Lens.org collaborates with established Open Access platforms including ORCiD, PubMed, Microsoft Academic, Crossref, DOAJ, PMC, Unpaywall, CORE among others.