ScholarsEdge University is a live programming series designed to help scholars use ScholarsEdge faster, smarter, and more strategically. Each session is hosted by a live expert who walks through best practices, real research workflows, and new platform features—so you can ask questions in real time, learn what actually works, and immediately apply what you learn to your own research.
Upcoming Webinars
ScholarsEdge University: Best Practices for Using Papers Portal
Zoom · Event date: Thursday, March 5, 2026 · Event time:12:00–1:00 PM ET
Overview
Learn how to use the ScholarsEdge Papers Portal to discover research, identify collaborators, and accelerate your own scholarship.
The Papers Portal provides a centralized, AI-powered way to explore research across the IHS scholarly network, including:
- Easy access to 100,000+ published articles and 25,000+ full papers
- Concept- and topic-based search across the literature
- Visibility into coauthors within the IHS network, with clickable scholar profiles
- The ability to upload and share your own work
- An integrated AI assistant that lets you “chat” with any paper
In this session, Dr. Shane Courtland, senior director of technical innovation at IHS, will demonstrate best practices for using the Papers Portal to:
- Strengthen research discovery and collaboration
- Identify career-boosting connections
- Solicit targeted feedback on works in progress
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ScholarsEdge Demo: Cost of Living
Zoom · Event date: Thursday, March 19, 2026 · Event time:12:00–1:00 PM ET
Overview
Explore how the ScholarsEdge Cost of Living tool helps scholars quickly analyze local economic and social conditions.
This tool aggregates ZIP-code-level data from dozens of authoritative sources, covering:
- Housing, taxes, and energy
- Health care, education, and internet access
- Crime, inflation, food prices, and environmental indicators
Users can visualize data on an interactive map or search by ZIP code to easily compare locations and identify natural experiments.
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ScholarsEdge University: Best Practices for Using Policy Search
Zoom · Event date: Thursday, April 2, 2026 · Event time:12:00–1:00 PM ET
Overview
Learn how to use Policy Search, ScholarsEdge’s advanced AI tool for navigating legal and regulatory texts at scale.
Policy Search enables scholars to:
- Search across trillions of pages of state and federal laws, regulations, and bills
- Rapidly extract and cluster policy-relevant concepts
- Track specific legislation with automatic email alerts and dashboards
In this session, Dr. Shane Courtland will demonstrate how to:
- Reverse-engineer legislation for optimal concept discovery
- Use strategic iteration to refine AI-driven search results
- Stay current as policy landscapes rapidly evolve
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ScholarsEdge Demo: Energy Grid
Zoom · Event date: Thursday, April 16, 2026 · Event time:12:00–1:00 PM ET
Overview
Get a hands-on introduction to Energy Grid, an AI-powered research environment for electricity market analysis.
Energy Grid brings together real-time generation, pricing, and forecasting data across all major US grid operators, including PJM, MISO, ERCOT, CAISO, NYISO, ISO-NE, and SPP—plus deep-dive data for TVA, BPA, and major utilities.
In this demo, you’ll see how scholars can:
- Query complex datasets using natural language
- Instantly generate demand curves and visualizations
- Use a Research Agent to move from data selection to outlining a publishable research output
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ScholarsEdge University: Platform Feedback & What's Next
Zoom · Event date: Thursday, May 7, 2026 · Event time:12:00–1:00 PM ET
Overview
Join the ScholarsEdge team for a live conversation about the platform’s evolution and what comes next.
This session will:
- Review major tools launched over the past year
- Address common user questions and feedback
- Invite participants to help shape future ScholarsEdge features
This is your opportunity to directly influence how ScholarsEdge continues to support scholarly workflows and impact.
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