Elsevier and NextBio recently signed a partnership to enrich ScienceDirect content. The hope is that this will accelerate life science, health science and chemistry research.

NextBio provides a platform that enables life science researchers to search, discover, and share knowledge within public and proprietary data. Information from NextBio will now be used to enrich the content of ScienceDirect.

“Combining the depth of our search and discovery capabilities, and our unique content with the breath of the ScienceDirect platform will create new opportunities for Life Science, Health Science and Chemistry researchers to quickly gain access to the most current and comprehensive insight in their field,” says Saeid Akhtari, co-founder, president and chief executive officer, of NextBio.

The new enhancement will become available on ScienceDirect and accessible by subscribed users in summer 2009.

Science Direct

Elsevier’s ScienceDirect contains over a quarter of the world’s full text scientific, technical and medical peer-reviewed articles. The full-text collection covers titles from the important scientific literature including The Lancet, Cell and Tetrahedron.

ScienceDirect covers over 2,500 journals published by Elsevier and dynamic linking to journals from approximately 2,000 scientific, technical and medical publishers through CrossRef. These are interlinked with major online reference works and handbooks.

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