Reflecting on the INSPIRE Week: Charting the Future of INSPIRE

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Last week, CERN had the pleasure of hosting a week-long meeting that brought together international members of the INSPIRE Collaboration from CERN (Switzerland), DESY (Germany), Fermilab (USA), IHEP (China) and IN2P3 (France). This group of experts convened to discuss the future strategy and improvements for INSPIRE, and how it can continue to serve the high-energy physics community as a one-stop information service for literature, conferences, seminars, institutions, journals, researchers, experiments, jobs and data.

The meeting began with introductions and an overview of INSPIRE’s current impact and objectives. The focus then shifted to more technical sessions, discussing sustainability, automation, and crowd-sourcing ideas. Midweek, the team shifted to strategic planning, developing a priority roadmap for INSPIRE’s future with input from all colleagues. The final day summarised discussions, solidified action plans, prioritised key initiatives, assigned roles and responsibilities, and set an implementation timeline, collectively committing to advancing INSPIRE’s evolution.

We left the meeting not only with actionable plans but also with a deeper sense of camaraderie and mutual respect. As we move forward, we are excited to implement these improvements and continue our mission to support and advance the field of high-energy physics. Stay tuned for updates and new features as we work together to build a brighter future for our research community.

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Bring your Thesis to INSPIRE

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        INSPIRE is committed to keep up with all the new publications in the field of high energy physics. As part of that, over the years, INSPIRE has managed to collect more than 30.000 theses! Only last year INSPIRE added more than 2000 theses to its collection. Approximately 70% of them are Phd level.

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Figure 1: Total number of theses in INSPIRE

Although theses only cover the 3% of the total HEP publications collection, they made up 40% of user submissions in 2015, so it is noticeable that  there is  a large demand for better coverage. Finding all the theses concerning the HEP field every year from around the world is a very difficult task. While the focused and devoted INSPIRE team constantly searches for new publications, it might not find all of them, which is why we need your help.

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Figure 2: Thesis collection categorized by field

As with every other publication on INSPIRE, when submitting a thesis a person, is automatically given an author profile, which will include his first publication. In case this publication is not his first the author profile will already exist and it will get updated.

For all of these reasons we recommend that all students who want to start building their career in high energy physics should suggest their thesis to INSPIRE. . Moreover, professors and supervisors should also encourage and recommend this action to their students. Please note that for those of you a CERN, we take theses available on CDS automatically.

If you are interested in submitting your thesis to INSPIRE, check out INSPIRE labs. All the analytical steps and directions that will guide you through the thesis suggestion process can be found here.

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