Springer Nature has announced a partnership with CiteAb, a life science data company. The agreement is the first with a publisher for the data company. Under the deal, selected journal and book citation data from the publisher will be integrated into CiteAb’s search engine, helping researchers make more informed decisions when identifying the best reagent for their experiments.
With over 3 million citations and 10 million+ reagents now included in the platform, researchers are provided with a more comprehensive view of the most commonly used products in their research field enabling them to: see how and where they are used and to what effect; search for what they need in one place; and have access to information on the suppliers of reagents, all which helps to save them time and money when identifying the products that are most appropriate for their own experiments.
Reagents - core components in chemical, biochemical and related lab work - are essential for researchers and academics to be able to plan their experiments and develop their research. However, many experiment reproducibility problems can be tied directly to reagents. It is estimated that up to $28 billion annually is wasted on irreproducibility in pre-clinical research - which has a large global impact on the development of high quality research to tackle medical, environmental problems, due to the time wasted in having to correct the reagents the work is based on.
It is extremely time-consuming for researchers to find not just high-quality information, but also the most appropriate resources - data and products - for lab, experiment, and research work. This partnership aims to address this issue by integrating Springer Nature's high-quality data and content with CiteAb's innovative platform and search capabilities, as well as by employing cutting-edge text and data mining APIs to speed the search procedure.
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