Following the recent release of INSPIRE seminars, we are continuously working on improving their integration with the INSPIRE content.

Author’s seminars

In addition to papers, the author profile is expanded to include the author’s seminars, under the “Seminars” tab.

Accessibility information

Information on the accessibility of an online seminar can now be specified in the seminar submission form. Submitters are invited to  add any supporting material and indicate whether captions are available.

While searching for seminars, users can filter seminars that correspond to these criteria.

Links to INSPIRE papers

When submitting a new seminar, users can fill in the link (URL) of a related INSPIRE paper. The seminar will then appear in the paper’s page.

Bibliography generator

Generate a LaTeX/BibTeX bibliography with the new bibliography generator tool:

https://inspirehep.net/bibliography-generator

You will find the tool in the footer, under ‘Tools’:

Search by reference

Following user feedback, search has been improved to enable users to search by references.

eg. Type Phys.Rept. 323 (2000) 183

Institution improvements

You are now able to see collaborations and subjects for papers of each institution:

https://inspirehep.net/institutions/902725

Feedback

The High-Energy Physics community’s feedback has always been part of shaping and improving INSPIRE. Stay tuned for upcoming features here.

For feature requests, please fill in your feedback here. For any other request, you can contact us at <feedback@inspirehep.net>.

We are happy to announce the release of the new INSPIRE REST API! 

Documentation: https://github.com/inspirehep/rest-api-doc

The highlights of the new API are:

  • Access data from the search and detailed record pages programmatically
  • JSON-based: in contrast to the API on the old INSPIRE, the new API uses JSON as primary data format, which is easy to use in a vast number of programming languages, and uses human-readable and well-documented fields.
  • Other formats, like BibTeX or LaTeX, are directly available and don’t require extracting them from an HTML page

Old API

The old API on https://old.inspirehep.net/ will soon be deprecated. If you have been using the old API, please adapt your scripts accordingly. The instructions on how to use the new API are found here

Upcoming features

In the next few weeks, we plan to allow filtering the API response, so you can get only the part of the records you’re interested in. 

Feedback

The new API is in active development, so feel free to inform us in case of issues or suggestions by creating an issue or contacting us at <feedback@inspirehep.net>.

Self-citations

Self-citations are citations from the same collaboration or any of the authors of the paper being cited. Learn more.

The ‘Exclude self-citations’ option allows users to exclude these from the Citation Summary.

https://inspirehep.net/literature?
q=a%20stephen%20hawking#with-citation-summary

Author citations

The new ‘Cited by’ tab in the author profile allows you to browse through an author’s citations; i.e. papers that cited that author.

https://inspirehep.net/authors/1006450

The results are similar to refersto a S.W.Hawking.1 searches.

HEPData links

INSPIRE papers that have data on HEPData display the respective link in the paper’s page.

https://inspirehep.net/literature/393084


Adapting to the increase of virtual seminars in the HEP community, we are happy to announce our new community-sourced seminar database.

Post and search for seminars around the world at:https://inspirehep.net/seminars

Features

  • Past and future seminars can be searched for and filtered by series and subjects.
  • Times are displayed in your timezone.
  • Speakers and affiliations are linked to their INSPIRE pages.

How do I post a new seminar?

As the seminar database is populated and maintained by users, anyone with an ORCID can submit new entries:

  1. Click on Submit > Seminar on the top right of the page.

2. Login with your ORCID to submit a new seminar.

3. The seminar appears immediately in the list of seminars.

The submitter is able to modify a seminar any time via the edit buttons that appear in the bottom of each entry.


Feedback

The High-Energy Physics community’s feedback has always been part of shaping and improving INSPIRE. If you have more ideas or features that would improve your experience with the new INSPIRE seminars, please contact us at <seminars@inspirehep.net> with feedback or suggestions.

Institutions

The new Institutions collection allows users to search for institutions in High Energy Physics. It features:

  • Links from author affiliations to the institution’s page
  • List of authors affiliated with the institution
  • List of papers from the institution
  • Citation summary of the papers from the institution
https://inspirehep.net/institutions/902725#with-citation-summary

Display advisors

Author profiles now display names of their advisors.

First author search

First author search is now available by typing ‘fa’ before an author name, eg. fa einstein,a

Search with texkey

A popular request from the community has been to support searches using the texkey eg: Einstein:1916vd . This is now implemented, see the example here.

Feedback

The High-Energy Physics community’s feedback has always been part of shaping and improving INSPIRE. Stay tuned for upcoming features here.
For feature requests, please fill in your feedback here. For any other request, you can contact us at <feedback@inspirehep.net>.

In response to our new work reality due to COVID-19, INSPIRE is actively looking for new ways to support researchers.

Over the past few weeks, there has been a surge of publicly available online seminars. After popular demand of listing these seminars in INSPIRE, we are working on a new seminar collection.

Users will be able to submit new seminars to INSPIRE for everyone to browse. Foreseen features include:

  • Linking speakers to INSPIRE author profiles
  • Filtering seminars by series
  • Direct links to attend seminars 

The new INSPIRE seminars will be available in May.

If you have any other ideas on how we can better support the community in these exceptional times, feel free to contact us at <feedback@inspirehep.net>.

Following the new INSPIRE release and community feedback, we are pleased to announce the first of a series of improvements:

Search results display

The display of search results is improved, making it easier to read through them.


Results per page

Users are now able to select the number of results per page: 25, 50, 100 or 250. This option is available at the bottom of the search results next to the number of pages.


Improved author search

Following user reports on specific author searches, the search results have been improved in the “Authors” tab.


Other fixes

The way files and figures are handled and displayed has been improved, a reported bug in the citation summary has been fixed and all redirect links from the old INSPIRE have been corrected.

Feedback

The High-Energy Physics community’s feedback has always been part of shaping and improving INSPIRE. Stay tuned for upcoming features here.
For feature requests, please fill in your feedback here. For any other request, you can contact us at <feedback@inspirehep.net>.

A year after releasing the INSPIRE beta version, we are delighted to announce the official release of the new, upgraded and more featureful INSPIRE. Built on top of a modern and reliable software architecture, the new INSPIRE aims at bringing the best out of the existing features while introducing new ones. Its modern, scalable and robust framework provides a solid foundation for fast and responsive services, intuitive search and comprehensive author profiles.

New features

Intuitive search, easy filtering, interactive citation summary: Take a quick tour of our new features by clicking on ‘Take the tour’ under the Help menu.

Citations differences

Citation counts may differ between the old and the new INSPIRE platforms. Learn more here.

Old INSPIRE end-of-life

The old interface will remain accessible for a limited time at https://old.inspirehep.net/ and will be switched off by June 2020. We are actively looking for community feedback to make sure the important features are implemented in the new version. For feature requests, please contact us via the form.

API and tools on INSPIRE

If you have been using the API, we’d like to hear from you! For the time being, you can still use the API by pointing explicitly to https://old.inspirehep.net/. At the same time, we are working on a new public JSON API and we are currently investigating the community needs: the information and features you would like to see in the new API, the applications you have in mind, and how these could be integrated with INSPIRE. Contact us at <feedback@inspirehep.net>.

Feedback

During this transition period, for feature requests, please fill in your feedback here. For any other request, you can contact us at <feedback@inspirehep.net>.

After months of hard work, we are proud to say the conference database is now included on our INSPIRE beta website!

Below, you can find more information about the redesigned features:

  1. Conference database
  2. Conference submission form

Conference database

Redesigned to match the new INSPIRE style, this database gathers thousands of HEP conferences taking place around the globe. It enables users to refine conference search results by subject and date, but it also gives clear access to proceedings and contributions that might be linked to a particular conference. Additionally, from now on, when one submits a conference, it will be published immediately on INSPIRE.

So, let’s see how all of this looks like in more detail!

You can start searching for conferences by selecting the option via our dropdown menu straight from the homepage:

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Available Search Filters: Date and Subject

Users are able to narrow down their conference search by date and subject.

As per default, the featured conferences will be the upcoming ones, so the respective button will be in blue. However, users can change this by selecting a start and, eventually, an end date from the calendar or typing a date directly in the bar, in which case, the upcoming conferences button will be switched off automatically.

Let’s perform a search to see this in practice! 

For now, we’ll only select a date, randomly:

Date selected, we hit “search”:

The results will always be ordered by most recent. Since we have too many, let’s now narrow them down by selecting a subject or few:

Do note that subjects filter each other out. So, the more you select, the less results you’ll see, as the search will return only those conferences that cover all the subjects you selected.

Now, if we add “ichep” as our keyword, all other things remaining the same:

Narrowing down by subjects:

And, finally:

Conference Record Overview

Straight from the search results page, you’ll be able to see an overview of a conference record.

For example, in the below screenshot, we can see the conference name, date, venue, website, subjects covered during the event (keywords), as well as contributions and proceedings linked to the conference:

Once you’ve clicked on a conference record, you will also be able to view which series it belongs to and its main contacts:

Plus, you will see the entire list of contributions to the conference, which you can further narrow down papers by subject and collaboration, and sort by most recent or cited.

Conference Submission Form

If you would like to submit a new conference to INSPIRE, you can do so by clicking on ‘Submit’ on the top right of the page:

See the submission form here.

Once you submit a conference, it will be instantly visible on INSPIRE, without the need for a curator’s approval.

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We hope you like the new look and feel of our conference database! As always, we warmly welcome your feedback. You can email us with any comments at feedback@inspirehep.net!