DTU Findit is an offshoot of DADS (DTU Article Database Service) – a system that we launched more than 25 years ago and was then a major step forward in terms of easy access to scholarly literature at DTU. The purpose of both DADS and DTU Findit is to provide a single entry point to all the literature we have bought access to. This way, researchers and students only have to log on to one system when searching for literature; they do not have to access the many different publisher databases and websites individually.
DTU Findit is still developing
Over the last ten years, the amount of literature in DTU Findit has increased. Today, DTU Findit covers nearly 181 million articles from scientific journals and relevant subject databases – almost 110 million are available online. The interface provides access to some 628,000 e-books and also contains DTU Library's 287,000 printed books.
Today, we also harvest research data from various sources – for instance DTU Data. Thus, DTU Findit now includes metadata for and links to almost 2.3 million datasets. In other words, you can find both research data and other underlying datasets from DTU research via DTU Findit.
Throughout the years, we have worked with usability and we continuously work to improve the user experience. New sorting filters and more personalized functionalities, such as favourites and feeds/alerts, have been added and are continuously adjusted and optimized.
The systems behind DTU Findit are self-developed and open source, and for this reason, we can use DTU Findit as a platform for the development of other digital tools such as DTU Research Output Statistics, DTU ROS, and DTU Research Analytics Platform, DTU RAP. In this way, we reuse and collect data and features from other sources, e.g. DTU's research database, DTU Orbit, and DTU's central HR database, DTUBasen, in one system.
With DTU Findit as a platform, DTU Library has digitized many otherwise manual processes, for example document delivery and research registration in DTU Orbit.
Congratulations to all of us - and cheers for DTU Findit
