IUCr Partners with AIP and its UniPHY Scientific Networking Site

The International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) has partnered with the American Institute of Physics (AIP) to provide bibliographic data from its publications to UniPHY (www.aipuniphy.org). UniPHY is AIP’s scientific social and professional networking site designed to enhance and accelerate collaboration amongst physical science researchers.

The IUCr has submitted data to UniPHY from all its journals from 1948 to the present day. Physicists who publish in IUCr Journals will now be able to access abstracts and author information and expand their network with this additional data, helping them to advance their research and raise their profiles within their community.

UniPHY’s "six-degrees"-style mapping allows users to discover the research conducted by more than 300,000 of their colleagues and follow a web of connections showing the co-authors that have worked with these colleagues.  Other features include discussion groups, recommend an article, congratulate an author, job postings and upcoming industry events.

Researchers who have published at least three physics articles in IUCr publications may already have a profile on UniPHY.  If not, they can simply sign up and then use UniPHY’s Publication Wizard to create their profile by adding their articles individually.  As more scientists and research articles are added to UniPHY, the more robust a resource it will become for the entire scientific community.