INSPIRE-HEP

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INSPIRE-HEP is an open access digital library for the field of high energy physics (HEP). It is the successor of the Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System (SPIRES) database, [1] the main literature database for high energy physics since the 1970s.

History [ edit ]

SPIRES was (in addition to the CERN Document Server (CDS), arXiv and parts of Astrophysics Data System ) one of the main Particle Information Resources. A survey conducted in 2007 [2] found that SPIRES database users wanted the portal to provide more services than the, at that time, already 30-year-old system could provide. On the second annual Summit of Information Specialists in Particle Physics and Astrophysics in May 2008, the physics laboratories CERN , DESY , SLAC and Fermilab therefore announced that they would work together to create a new Scientific Information System for high energy physics called INSPIRE. [3] It interacts with other HEP service providers like arXiv.org , [4] Particle Data Group , [5] NASA 's Astrophysics Data System . [6] and HEPdata. [7] In April 2010, a beta version of INSPIRE-HEP was freely accessible, [8] in April 2012, it fully replaced SPIRES. [9] A new and upgraded INSPIRE platform was officially released in March 2020. [10]

Content [ edit ]

INSPIRE-HEP combines the SPIRES-HEP database content with the open source digital library software Invenio [11] and the content of the CERN Document server. [8] In addition to scientific papers, INSPIRE-HEP provides other information such-as citation metrics, [12] plots extracted from papers or internal experiment notes [13] [14] and tools for users to improve metadata like crowdsourcing for author disambiguation. [15] As of August 2012, INSPIRE-HEP contains 1.1 million records. INSPIRE provides not only a literature database for the field of High-Energy Physics, but for other HEP-related services:

  • HEPNames: a comprehensive directory of people involved in High-Energy Physics [16]
  • Institutions: a database compiling over 7000 institutes related to the HEP field; included in the information about each institute is a link to all the papers in INSPIRE-HEP that are associated with the institution as well as a list of people (taken from HEPNames)
  • Conferences: a collection of HEP meetings and conferences
  • Jobs: a listing of academic and research jobs of interest to the community in high energy physics, nuclear physics, accelerator physics and astrophysics
  • Experiments: a database containing summaries of HEP and HEP-related experiments from different labs and locations around the world

See also [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

Citations [ edit ]

  1. ^ "Helmholtz Open Access: Newsletter 23 vom 18.08.2008" . Oa.helmholtz.de. Archived from the original on February 6, 2013 . Retrieved 2012-08-17 .
  2. ^ Gentil-Beccot, A., Mele S., Holtkamp, A., O’Connell, H., and Brooks, T.
  3. ^ "High-Energy Physics Labs Join to Build a New Scientific Information System" . 27 May 2008.
  4. ^ Warner, S., and Rieger, O. (2010)
  5. ^ "Latest Edition of the "Particle Physics Bible" Now Online" . 18 June 2012.
  6. ^ "In search of the Big Bang" .
  7. ^ "Invenio User Group Workshop 2017" . Indico . Retrieved 2020-04-05 .
  8. ^ a b "Quantum Diaries" .
  9. ^ "Physicists, start your searches: INSPIRE database now online" .
  10. ^ "The next generation of INSPIRE is here!" . CERN . 30 March 2020 . Retrieved 2020-04-05 .
  11. ^ "Neue Informationsplattform fur die Hochenergiephysiker" . 21 May 2008.
  12. ^ "Quantum Diaries" .
  13. ^ Gulzow, V., and Kemp, Y. (2012)
  14. ^ DPHEP Study Group (2012)
  15. ^ http://infocamp.ch/crowdsourcing-in-der-bibliothek/ [ dead link ]
  16. ^ "Symmetry magazine" .

Sources [ edit ]

  • Gentil-Beccot, A., Mele S., Holtkamp, A., O’Connell, H., and Brooks, T. (2008). Information Resources in High-Energy Physics. Surveying the Present Landscape and Charting the Future Course, arXiv : 0804.2701
  • Warner, S., and Rieger, O. (2010). Developing Sustainability Strategies for arXiv. Information Standards Quarterly 22, 2-4. [1]
  • Gulzow, V., and Kemp, Y. (2012). Teilchenphysik. In: Neuroth, H. et al. (ed.). Langzeitarchivierung von Forschungsdaten. Eine Bestandsaufnahme, 257-274 [2]
  • DPHEP Study Group (2012). Status Report of the DPHEP Study Group: Towards a Global Effort for Sustainable Data Preservation in High Energy Physics. arXiv:1205.4667 [3]

External links [ edit ]

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