Screenshot of the new SupHub. WUR offers its scientists a lot of information that is useful for them in their day-to-day work as researchers, but that information is hard to find. SupHub, a new site to be launched next Monday, aims to solve that problem.
Which journal should you publish in to have maximum impact? Where can you find a drone to carry out measurements from the sky? All this information and more can in theory be found on WUR web pages. ‘But some of the info is on the intranet, while other things are on the internet,’ says Jacquelijn Ringersma, the Easy Service in Research programme manager at the library. ‘It is a labyrinth.’
We added a layer on top of the available services
Jacquelijn Ringersma
She was commissioned by Dean of Research Wouter Hendriks to develop SubHub. It is basically a kind of homepage. Ringersma: ‘We added a layer on top of the available services. Those services are divided into ten categories and there is a search bar. Once you find something, a link takes you to that location.’
Struggle
A total of 150 services were identified. Ringersma: ‘The scope is that it should be a research support service for primary research.’ The new portal has been tested with researchers. The address is suphub.wur.nl. The link to SupHub will be shown under applications on the intranet, and on the websites of the library and the graduate schools. Strangely, there is already a Research Support page on the intranet, which has a very similar setup to SupHub. ‘We did struggle with that dilemma,’ says Ringersma. ‘But SupHub offers a lot more services, is easier to search and will be kept up to date.’
