Remember my blog post NextBio Elsevier Partnership telling you that Elsevier was going to use NextBio technology to enhance ScienceDirect? Well, the updated version of ScienceDirect went live yesterday and now you can see the enhancements for yourself!
ScienceDirect users who are logged into their account will now see a box titled “Relevant Terms extracted from this Article” beneath the familiar “Article Toolbox” box.
The relevant terms are extracted from the text of the article using NextBio’s ontological tools and each is linked to a custom page with a wealth of information on experimental data, literature, clinical trials, news and key researchers.
I am very happy that ScienceDirect has chosen to integrate all these different types of content on a single platform. It will be a powerful tool for researchers. Hopefully, this enhancement of ScienceDirect will help illustrate the power of integrating information and data rather than isolating them in silos. Many people believe that future of life science research lies in making data more open, accessible and integrated. I am among those people and therefore very glad to see Elsevier take this step towards data accessibility and integration.
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