How are researcher profiles kept accurate?

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.

How can I get my researchers to update their information?

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.

What embedded integrations exist in Esploro?

Out-of-the-box integrations include data from: ProQuest ETD Administrator Altmetric ORCID Crossref GoogleScholar DataCite KnowledgeUnlatched Retriever IRUS-US HDL Enabled

What’s new in Esploro?

Find the most up-to-date information and resources for Esploro, broken down into easy to navigate sections in the Knowledge Center. Esploro Knowledge Center See what new enhancements are available in Esploro by reviewing the release notes. Esploro Release Notes

Esploro Research Portal & Profiles

Generate comprehensive researcher profiles with ease

Esploro cuts manual entry and breaks down silos by linking trusted scholarly information across disciplines. With its configurable portal and profiles, institutions can present researchers, outputs, projects, and activities in one solution.

Dynamic profiles

Showcase researcher expertise and achievements through multi-dimensional profiles that highlight publications, projects and activities.

Comprehensive data through the portal

Unify research and researcher data in one portal that highlights researchers, outputs, collections, and units across your institution.

Seamless integrations 

Support faculty, program, and institutional evaluations by integrating Esploro data with HR, RIM, and library systems through open APIs.

Showcase research and expertise

Unified research portal

Present your institution’s research in a searchable, discoverable portal optimized for Google and more, with flexible configurations.

Research from all disciplines

Include outputs from faculty, researchers, and students across disciplines, from publications and grants to projects and other activities.

Smart Harvesting AI

Profiles are auto-populated with assets from thousands of trusted sources, including publishers, DOI agencies, databases, and repositories.

Accurate researcher profiles

Ensure accurate, discoverable researcher profiles with verified data and an integrated expert finder connecting expertise across your institution

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 accurate asset and profile data.

Comprehensive reports and dashboards

Gain insights into research performance with dashboards and reports, tracking outputs, projects, grants, and activities to show impact.

Configurable institutional portal

Present a cohesive view of your research ecosystem, highlighting priority areas, key researchers, and collections in a configurable portal.

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Esploro fills an enormous gap in our scholarly communications infrastructure and builds the Brandeis identity as a research institution.

Mark Paris Brandeis University

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

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Amplifying academic research: Showcasing multiple facets of research impact

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Informing and showcasing researchers’ projects and impact case studies

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Giving researchers and the research output a global presence

Helping a regional university promote its wealth of research output to the world

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Making the library an indispensible research partner

The University of Georgia Libraries is raising the profile of faculty research and making it more discoverable with the help of Esploro

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Using relationships and data to re-Center the library on campus

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Making the library an indispensible research partner

The University of Georgia Libraries is raising the profile of faculty research and making it more discoverable with the help of Esploro

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Going beyond faculty showcasing to illuminate student research

The University of West Florida Libraries use the Esploro™ research portal and profiles solution to demonstrate the importance of both student and faculty research on campus

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FAQs

Esploro is designed for research administrators, librarians, and institutional leaders who need to capture, manage, and showcase all types of research outputs. It is also useful for faculty and researchers who want accurate, comprehensive profiles of their scholarly and creative work.

Esploro includes an institutional repository. When purchasing the research portal and researcher profiles, the library can also take advantage of the institutional repository and host all of the university’s publications and outputs. Open-access publishing requirements can be fulfilled by leveraging Esploro’s institutional repository.

Esploro can capture and showcase a wide range of research outputs, including publications, datasets, presentations, creative works, media, patents, and other nontraditional research materials. This provides a comprehensive view of all scholarly and creative activity across the institution.

All disciplines – arts & humanities, social sciences and sciences – can be 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.

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. Esploro allows institutions to create and customize analytics dashboards and reports to track research output, scholarly impact, and asset usage. Users can tailor views and metrics to meet institutional needs and reporting requirements.

Esploro systematically enhances and confirms profile accuracy by using persistent identifiers such as DOIs, ORCIDs, and RORs. Partnerships with these organizations ensure that data transfer is comprehensive.

Esploro can integrate with other third-party research administration systems using open APIs that allow for smooth data transfer to CRIS (Current Research Information System) and RIM (Research Information Management) systems to avoid the misalignment of data.

Out-of-the-box integrations include:

Web of Science
InCites Benchmarking & Analytics (for mutual subscribers)
Alma (for mutual subscribers)
ProQuest ETD Administrator (for mutual subscribers)
Altmetric
ORCID (requires ORCID membership)
Crossref
DataCite
Handle System
KnowledgeUnlatched (for mutual subscribers)
IRUS-UK
OpenAire PROVIDE – coming in 2026
ROR

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.

Find the resources needed to get started and get help for administrators and researchers in the Esploro Knowledge Center.

Use on-demand videos and resources to start learning how to use the platform today.

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Esploro Product Documentation

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.

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Esploro Product Documentation

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