Researchers in higher education institutions — colleges & universities alike — need up to the minute information from both internal and external sources to ensure that their research takes into consideration prior art and leading edge discoveries from institutional and external expertise. Oracle Secure Enterprise Search provides unparalleled access to internal content sources and when paired with MuseConnect for Oracle, by MuseGlobal, the two systems work together to provide a solution that can conduct a comprehensive search of all-important sources with a single user activity, making the research "source complete".

For example, a university fellow may be pursuing a line of investigation about alternative fuel sources for the US electric supply. The researcher might have many tools available for their use — internal repositories of content searchable thru Oracle Secure Enterprise Search, repositories searchable via other enterprise search platforms, information from other institutions research repositories, open web sources, even blogs. With no shortage of available resources from which to choose, the researcher must decide which to use, and must prioritize them, choosing which to use first.

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An exhaustive research session might involve two-dozen or more sources and perhaps hundreds of decisions, commentaries, articles and blog entries. Each source is hosted on a platform that is different, with different controls, different options for use, and different methods for presenting the information contained within. Moving from one source to another requires the user to navigate to the source, navigate thru that sources interface before interacting with the content available to them — possibly de-focusing the researcher from the information because of the necessity of constantly refocusing their attention on changing information tools. As deadlines approach, the worker may have to choose some sources over others and may miss critical information that is needed to explore new sources of energy or make existing ones more efficient.

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Utilizing Oracle Secure Enterprise Search platform with the MuseConnect for Oracle, a single research action can retrieve information from internal, external, commercial, public, editorial, and self-published sources and present that information in a comprehensive, easy-to-understand interface. Having a 'single view' of the data from all sources means that the knowledge worker can focus on the information, and not the tools, making it easy to spot subtle, but important nuances uncovered from many different sources.

Valuable content made easily accessible — that's the power of Oracle Secure Enterprise Search platform with MuseConnect for Oracle.

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