Scopus is a preeminent multi-disciplinary database for peer-reviewed research literature and scholarly Web sources. Track and analyze research activity using its rich treasure trove of citation data. See who has cited a particular author or article; discover the main journals, disciplines, and authors that publish in your areas of interest; compare journals using various metrics; and track research trends. This UW-restricted e-resource is brought to you by the UW Libraries and the Office of Research. 

UW faculty who report effort on a calendar-year cycle now are able to certify their effort reports electronically. This faster, easier, online certification replaces the paper-based process and meets compliance-based reporting requirements for grant research. (Those reporting on the academic cycle can begin online certification in April.) This latest phase of the Electronic Faculty Effort and Cost Sharing (eFECS) project improves timeliness, security, online status tracking, and integrated calculations for cost share adjustments. Feedback from user focus groups informed this effort by eFECS advisory groups and UW-IT.

Saving, organizing, and sharing your citations is easy with the new, improved version of RefWorks, a UW-restricted citation management tool brought to you by UW Libraries. The updated interface let’s you store, navigate, and disseminate research materials you've gathered from a variety of sources, including catalogs, databases, and Web pages. RefWorks also saves you time by automatically formatting your bibliographies into whatever style you need.

When the City of Seattle wanted to develop an online Seattle Public Safety Survey, it turned to the UW Evans School of Public Affairs. Graduate students drafted the survey, using Catalyst WebQ, to gather residents’ views of public safety and the Seattle Police Department. Results are due in May.

Some UW researchers doing computational, data-intensive work are now plugged in to a high-performance computer cluster in the new UW Tower Data Center. Called Hyak (Chinook for “fast”), this shared supercomputer is made available through eScience Institute sponsorship of specific colleges, currently Arts and Sciences, Engineering, and the Environment. Phase one (one-third of Hyak’s capacity) was completed in August 2010. Additional sponsorships for the remaining capacity are available. This partnership with UW-IT to satisfy campus research computing requirements resulted in skill and technology transfer, reducing costs and increasing UW efficiency and productivity.