Esploro
Showcase research and expertise
Generate comprehensive researcher profiles with ease
Esploro reduces manual entry and breaks down data silos, linking comprehensive scholarly information from the most trusted sources across all academic disciplines.
Dynamic profiles
Showcase talent to support institution and researcher goals using multi-dimensional profiles.
Comprehensive data
Effortlessly unify research and researcher data into one comprehensive portrait of institutional output.
Seamless integrations
Facilitate faculty and program evaluation needs by integrating data with other systems.
Showcase research and expertise
Unified research portal
Support global discovery in one expert finder system optimized for SEO and multiple languages for ultimate exposure.
Research from all disciplines
Include research produced by faculty, researchers and students across all disciplines and source types.
Auto-matching Smart Harvesting
Using AI, profiles are populated with relevant research assets discovered from databases, repositories and indexes.
Accurate researcher profiles
Enhance and confirm profile accuracy by using persistent identifiers such as DOIs and ORCIDs.
Data connected across systems
Use Esploro’s open APIs to break down data silos between research information management (RIM), HR and library systems.
Open institutional repository
Fulfill open access publishing requirements by leveraging Esploro’s institutional repository.
Showcase researcher profiles
Showcase researcher profiles populated with data from Web of Science™, InCites Benchmarking & Analytics™ and other trusted sources.
Automated data capture
Reduce manual work by using Smart Harvesting AI to collect complete and accurate asset and profile data.
Comprehensive internal analytics
Assess and report on scholarly influence across the entire institution using the analytics dashboard and customizable reports.



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We recognized the potential in Esploro beyond simply replacing our previous repository. We’re now adapting it into an impact repository, enabling us to track evidence for impact case studies.
Floris van der Leest Manager of Research Performance Information, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
We more than doubled the amount of research outputs in OUR Archive within a month after going live.
Lisa Chisholm Manager, Library Research Services, University of Otago
With Esploro, we’re going to be able to give a researcher a profile, do a search and harvest automatically. That’s going to be magic.
Margaret Pembroke Library Systems and Copyright Librarian, Southern Cross University
We already have more research outputs in Esploro than we ever had in our old repository.
Jason Battles University of Georgia
We needed a tool like Esploro that we could put into the hands of researchers and faculty to manage the research lifecycle.
Matt Smith State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Esploro is really important for us. It gives us the ability to provide meaningful services to the community in a sustainable way. [Esploro] gives us the chance to greatly expand our definition of scholarly communications.
Mark Paris Brandeis University
When it comes to working in the system, I need things centralized… affect big changes by doing a few things. Smart harvesting eliminates a lot of manual searching for faculty works, and that’s really helped a lot.
Andii Johnson University of West Florida
FAQs
The arts & humanities, social sciences and sciences are displayed in Esploro. Provide a comprehensive view of your institution that includes research produced by faculty, researchers and students across all disciplines and source types.
Esploro systematically enhances and confirms profile accuracy by using persistent identifiers such as DOIs and ORCIDs. Partnerships with these organizations ensure that data transfer is complete.
In Esploro you can assess and report on scholarly impact and asset usage across the entire institution using the analytics dashboard and customizable reports.
Yes, when purchasing the research portal, the library can also take advantage of the platform and can host all of the university’s publications and output. Fulfill open-access publishing requirements by leveraging Esploro’s institutional repository.
Esploro offers self-service options for researchers to keep their profiles current and directly deposit their work. Administrator tools make it easy to review and approve changes and new deposits.
Esploro can integrate with other third-party research administration systems using open APIs. The open APIs allow for smooth data transfer to your other CRIS (Current Research Information System) or RIM (Research Information Management) systems to avoid the misalignment of data versions.
Out-of-the-box integrations include data from:
- ProQuest ETD Administrator
- Altmetric
- ORCID
- Crossref
- GoogleScholar
- DataCite
- KnowledgeUnlatched
- Retriever
- IRUS-US
- HDL Enabled
Find the most up-to-date information and resources for Esploro, broken down into easy to navigate sections in the Knowledge Center.
See what new enhancements are available in Esploro by reviewing the release notes.
Find the resources needed to get started and get help for administrators and end-users on the Esploro Knowledge Center.
Use on-demand videos and resources to start learning how to use the platform today. For more in-depth training and customization help, institution-specific training sessions can be scheduled with our Customer Success team.
If you have product feedback or an enhancement idea, please submit an idea to the Idea Exchange.
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