STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the acquisition of QUOSA, a US-based content management and workflow productivity solutions provider for researchers and information managers.
QUOSA's current solutions and platform, including its Information Manager and Virtual Library, will continue to be supported. The company's technological capabilities will be developed into Elsevier-branded solutions, in a bid to raise the efficiency of the search and discovery process. Also, researchers and information professionals will be allowed to manage information more efficiently at the various stages of the research workflow including organising, archiving and sharing.
Elsevier and QUOSA have collaborated since 2007 when the latter's PDF Download Manager was incorporated in SciVerse Scopus. Later the feature was embedded in SciVerse ScienceDirect. Elsevier's acquisition of QUOSA marks a continuation of this collaboration which has reportedly boosted research productivity for the users of both solutions.
Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Boston, QUOSA began by targeting the academic and government segments and now also serves a range of corporate customers, including more than half of the Top 25 pharma-biotech companies. Financial details of the acquisition are not being disclosed.
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