Sunset of Data MonitorSunset of Data Monitor

We launched Data Monitor to meet anticipated Funder and Government mandates for open data and data traceability.   Unfortunately, the solution did not generate sufficient uptake to sustain the product operations. After thorough analysis and consideration, Elsevier has decided to sunset Data Monitor effective June 30, 2025. 

Data Monitor offered a unique value proposition to academic customers to help them gather a view of the datasets produced by their institution. There is no direct Elsevier replacement Service that matches the capability to discover and monitor all datasets of an enterprise in a single feed.     

The following statements outline the situation for these customers:   

Data Monitor only customers 

If you are using Data Monitor as a stand along product, there will be no replacement product available. 

Pure Customers    

Data Monitor was a comprehensive solution that enabled administrators to discover and track all research datasets across an enterprise. Unfortunately, Pure does not offer features that support this use case as effectively as Data Monitor did. Customers of Pure who wish to achieve the same outcome will need to undertake additional work. 

By July 2025, when Data Monitor is scheduled to sunset, the Pure product team will enable users logged into Pure to search and retrieve individual records from DataCite, which contains 70% of the records that were available in Data Monitor. However, the data within DataCite is not enriched to improve matching, as it was in Data Monitor. Therefore, the new feature in Pure cannot be considered an equivalent solution for an administrator to track an enterprise’s entire dataset collection.  

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Digital Commons Data Customers    

The DC Data Module is still a viable solution to optimize the storage, management, publication and preservation of your institution's research data files. Similarly, there are no planned features in Digital Commons Data which provide the same functionality as Data Monitor.   It will not give an institution visibility of its entire research data output via data repository mining outside of Digital Commons Data and Mendeley Data, rather it will now use only your institutions’ datasets, alongside Mendeley Data; Digital Commons Data network datasets may also be shared and/or accessed via an opt-in process. 

With the rebuilding of search capabilities within Digital Commons Data, customers can expect to see improvements in search functionality, interface and experience – making search easier by doing away with operators and increasing the number of fields by which search results may be returned, filtered or faceted – such as by open or restricted access.   

For users of Pure and DCD, we are actively working on a solution to import records from DCD to Pure. 

Although this will not replicate Data Monitor, it will provide additional enhancement to search returns for those customers. 

Research data will be removed from Scopus on 30 June 2025.  This data, housed on Mendeley data, was supported by Data Monitor.  Data Monitor is no longer available as an Elsevier product. 

Yes, we encourage you to download your data prior to the 30 June 2025 sunset date. Once Data Monitor is deprecated, the ability to download data will also go away.

Data Monitor was a comprehensive solution that enabled administrators to discover and track all research datasets across an enterprise. Unfortunately, Pure does not offer features that support this use case as effectively as Data Monitor did. Customers of Pure who wish to achieve the same functionality will need to undertake additional work. 

By July 2025, when Data Monitor is scheduled to sunset, the PURE product team will allow a person who is logged into Pure to search and retrieve individual records from DataCite, a source which contains 70% of the records that were within Data Monitor.  Also, the data within DataCite is not enriched like in Data Monitor to improve matching. Clients need to enable the DataCite integration in Pure by June 2025, adjusting to the new synchronization process based on Orcid IDs and preparing for manual review of unmatched records. 

It is important that you import all records from Data Monitor before sunset. This also includes all dataset current stored as import candidates. After the sunset, Pure will no longer be able to fetch the metadata and store it. At least not with the enriched data Data Monitor provided.

We will delete customer data according to our data retention policy. Customer registration information that is not associated with the registration with other Elsevier subscribed products will follow Elsevier's data retention policy.