INSPIRE-HEP
{{Short description|High energy physics research database}}
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,{{cite web |url=http://oa.helmholtz.de/?id=224 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130206215730/http://oa.helmholtz.de/?id=224 |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 6, 2013 |title=Helmholtz Open Access: Newsletter 23 vom 18.08.2008 |publisher=Oa.helmholtz.de |access-date=2012-08-17 }} the main literature database for high energy physics since the 1970s.
History
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 2007Gentil-Beccot, A., Mele S., Holtkamp, A., O’Connell, H., and Brooks, T. 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.interactions.org/cms/?pid=1026243|title = High-Energy Physics Labs Join to Build a New Scientific Information System| date=27 May 2008 }} It interacts with other HEP service providers like arXiv.org,Warner, S., and Rieger, O. (2010) Particle Data Group,{{Cite web|url=http://www.interactions.org/cms/?pid=1031828|title = Latest Edition of the "Particle Physics Bible" Now Online| date=18 June 2012 }} NASA's Astrophysics Data System.{{Cite web|url=http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/In-search-of-the-Big-Bang|title=In search of the Big Bang}} and HEPdata.{{Cite web|url=https://indico.cern.ch/event/557956/contributions/2469751/|title=Invenio User Group Workshop 2017|website=Indico|access-date=2020-04-05}} In April 2010, a beta version of INSPIRE-HEP was freely accessible, in April 2012, it fully replaced SPIRES.{{Cite web|url=http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2012/05/24/physicists-start-your-searches-inspire-database-now-online/|title=Physicists, start your searches: INSPIRE database now online|date=24 May 2012 }} A new and upgraded INSPIRE platform was officially released in March 2020.{{Cite web|url=https://home.cern/news/news/knowledge-sharing/next-generation-inspire-here|title=The next generation of INSPIRE is here!|date=30 March 2020|website=CERN|language=en|access-date=2020-04-05}}
Content
INSPIRE-HEP combines the SPIRES-HEP database content with the open source digital library software Invenio{{Cite web|url=http://heise.de/-209136|title = Neue Informationsplattform für die Hochenergiephysiker| date=21 May 2008 }} and the content of the CERN Document server.{{Cite web|url=http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2009/12/23/hep-literature-databases-to-be-inspired-in-2010/|title = Quantum Diaries}} In addition to scientific papers, INSPIRE-HEP provides other information such-as citation metrics,{{Cite web|url=http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2012/08/02/the-destiny-of-boson-observation-papers/|title=Quantum Diaries}} plots extracted from papers or internal experiment notesGülzow, V., and Kemp, Y. (2012)DPHEP Study Group (2012) and tools for users to improve metadata like crowdsourcing for author disambiguation.http://infocamp.ch/crowdsourcing-in-der-bibliothek/ {{Dead link|date=March 2022}} As of March 2025, INSPIRE-HEP contains 1.7 million literature 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{{Cite web|url=http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/cms/?pid=1000719#5|title = Symmetry magazine}}
- Institutions: a database compiling over 12000 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
References
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