Want to know who’s doing what, where and how in some particular field of scientific research at Cornell? You’ll probably find the answers in Cornell Library’s VIVO at http://vivo.cornell.edu/.
A VIVO search transcends college and departmental boundaries and returns not only the names of researchers but also grants and recent publications, facilities, undergraduate majors and graduate fields, and seminars and other events. When President David Skorton travels to Africa and wants to know about relevant Cornell faculty and research, VIVO has the answer.
Soon a similar capability may extend across the nation. A $12.2 million, two-year grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Research Resources will support the creation of VIVOweb, a multi-institutional version of VIVO that will connect biomedical researchers, initially at seven sites. The goal is to foster alliances, making biomedical research and discovery move faster.
The project is led by the University of Florida with Cornell and Indiana University-Bloomington as major partners. Scripps Research Institute, Ponce Medical School, Washington University and Weill Cornell Medical College will participate as implementation sites. The rest of this article is at Cornell.