Knowledge management and discovery software developer Collexis Holdings, Inc., US, has announced an agreement with JISC Collections for an online resource, which aims to encourage greater collaboration and expand scientific knowledge amongst the biomedical research community in the UK. Under the deal, teaching staff and students at universities and research councils in the UK will now be able to access Collexis' Expert Profiling for a specially negotiated subscription fee.
Expert Profiling enables users to quickly identify experts within their institution as well as identify, locate and collaborate with other experts from around the world. Using the Collexis system, subscribing institutions can create expert profiles of investigators, researchers and departments to disseminate ground-breaking research and biomedical advances. These profiles are generated using researchers' publications from a variety of sources. Profiles are then available to all researchers, allowing them to easily find what is being published, what researchers are active and the pace of research in a particular area of interest.
In addition to the new agreement with JISC Collections, Collexis Holdings Inc. is bringing its innovative technology to other research organisations and universities worldwide, including the Mayo Clinic Libraries; Johns Hopkins University; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the University of California, San Francisco; the University of South Carolina; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Lockheed Martin; World Health Organization, National Institutes of Health; and U.S. Department of Defense.
