Elsevier Acquires Collexis, developer of Semantic Technology and Knowledge Discovery Software

AMSTERDAM, June 10, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --

Acquisition Accelerates Elsevier's Ability to Help Researchers and Decision-Makers, Establish, Execute and Evaluate Research Strategies and Deliver Higher ROI

Elsevier (www.elsevier.com), the leading global publisher of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, announced today the acquisition of assets from Collexis Holdings, Inc. (http://www.collexis.com), a leading developer of semantic technology and knowledge discovery software. The combination of Elsevier's content and Collexis' semantic technology will provide institutions and researchers new ways to collaborate, showcase accomplishments and improve grant related workflow efficiencies.

Collexis technology is considered market leading in the academic segment; well architected and thoughtfully developed over time. Main products include:

• Expert Profiler (www.collexis.com/products/expertprofiling.htm ): helps institutions better expose their research history and capabilities by aggregating the "conceptual fingerprints" of existing published papers. By using historic publishing and citation data to expose unique relationships among people and institutions, Expert Profiler provides senior decision makers with transparency while researchers can use it to identify others with whom to collaborate.

• Reviewer Finder (www.collexis.com/products/reviewerfinder.htm ): helps grant managers identify the best reviewer available by automatically identifying the most highly qualified researcher with the lowest conflict of interest. This solution can reduce the time grant managers spend identifying a reviewer from upwards of a month down to one week.

• Professional Social Networking ( www.aipuniphy.org/Portal/Portal.aspx ): BiomedExperts.com (www.biomedexperts.com/ ) connects biomedical researchers to each other through the display and analysis of each scientist's co-author network allowing scientists and researchers across organizations to collaborate in new and time-saving ways.

• Knowledge Engine and Knowledge Services: Using the Collexis Knowledge Engine, Collexis helps institutions search, index, categorize, trend and match information inside their own custom data for discovery. They build embedded knowledge solutions in integrated workflows for academic, government and corporate clients.