Discovery researchers have a wide range of responsibilities, and the total time they can devote to searching for scientific evidence and data is relatively small compared to their overall workload. Owing to how important this element of their role is, it’s crucial that they have the right tools at their disposal to ensure they are as efficient and thorough as possible when they conduct research.
Given the volume of new publications and data emerging daily, what proactive approaches can researchers take to stay up to date with new breakthroughs and emerging trends in their area of therapeutic focus?
Utilizing Search Alerts
New data and articles are being published at an ever-increasing rate. With the advent of pre-print servers, specialized data resources, and 1.5 million new citations added to PubMed alone annually, keeping on top of the emerging content is an increasing challenge for discovery researchers.
New publications may offer evidence that invalidates a central hypothesis of a drug program, but it can be time consuming to run the same searches repeatedly, and alerting mechanisms are a great way to help automate review of the latest research.
Being able to set alerts on anything of interest in one unified, semantically aware platform is a great way for discovery researchers to stay on top of new content. This sort of alerting functionality can also be used by research teams to regularly scan for new publications and competitor activity, or product teams to be alerted to new publications mentioning their product.
In some companies, project-driven literature collections are curated by discovery researchers to back-up the in-house knowledge generated through experimentation, or to manage the competitive landscape. Alerting and sharing content properly is a great way to keep team members up to date on the current relevant content to their projects — as well as required reading for people new to the team. Using this type of automated alerting to build correctly managed literature sources is an important activity for many researchers.
The Benefits of Automating Alerts
- Reduce the risk of missing key information related to your therapeutic area of focus such as emerging drug targets, biomarkers, or novel therapeutic strategies.
- Save time by automatically receiving relevant info and reducing the manual effort of searching for new data, leaving you more space to focus on analysis and experimentation.
- Continuously monitor the latest publications and relevant developments to ensure you and your teams stay informed of new advancements in your field.
- Gain a competitive edge by staying abreast of the latest findings, trends, and breakthroughs.
- Tailor your information with specific keywords, topics, ontologies, and filters to get actionable insights faster and minimize the risk of missing key info.
A Solution to Address the Challenges of Drug Discovery Research
CCC’s RightFind Navigate reduces the likelihood that you’ll miss out on critical information while spending less time learning separate interfaces. By bringing together licensed third-party data sources with internal proprietary information and publicly available resources, searches can be conducted across multiple content types — including scientific articles, clinical trials, grants, preprints, patents, and more.
Continuously monitor new and changing information relevant to your drug program or therapeutic area with search alerts across a multitude of data sources in RightFind Navigate. Researchers are equipped with the ability to automatically (and compliantly) collaborate with colleagues and stay abreast of up-to-date information that impacts their work.
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Visit the RightFind Navigate page to gain more insights into how the solution can help researchers solve many of the challenges they face around search, including staying current within their fast-moving fields while remaining copyright compliant.