Knowledge Dashboard Chosen By Russia's Largest Academic Consortium
NEICON Is First To Use Nanotechnology Knowledge Dashboard, Powered By Web of Science®
Philadelphia, PA USA, London UK — July 9, 2009 — The Healthcare & Science business of Thomson Reuters today announced that NEICON, Russia's largest academic consortium, will be the first organization to have access to the new Nanotechnology Knowledge Dashboard. The Knowledge Dashboard, developed in partnership with Collexis, is a custom data mining solution for the research community that merges Thomson Reuters Web of Science® data and the Collexis Knowledge Dashboard functionalities.
"Our researchers were searching for a dynamic research application in nanotechnology," states Alexander Kuznetsov, Executive Director of NEICON. "The Nanotechnology Knowledge Dashboard will greatly improve collaboration within the consortium and allow us to gain a fuller understanding of our research community's expertise."
The Nanotechnology Knowledge Dashboard gives the Russian nanotechnology research community a strategic advantage to explore key trends and experts, as provided by its fine granular nanotechnology thesaurus.
“We are pleased that the NEICON Russian consortium has signed up for the Nanotechnology Knowledge Dashboard and it demonstrates how the Collexis’ technology can be applied to any subject area and help to advance scientific research and innovation,” said Bill Kirkland, CEO of Collexis.
"We look forward to our partnership with NEICON," said Keith MacGregor, executive vice president of Scientific and Scholarly Research solutions at Thomson Reuters. "This particular knowledge dashboard demonstrates how Thomson Reuters' world-class content can enrich the research experience in any subject area."
The Knowledge Dashboard is a custom software and information solution that enables scientists to analyze large numbers of publications relevant to a defined topic swiftly and efficiently, and filter the essential information. Additionally, it allows researchers to explore existing knowledge concepts and provides proactive suggestions about the direction of research across a topic or by category. The dashboard also includes multiple thesauri that allow different points of view on the same data and navigation by subject.
About NEICON
Non-for-Profit Partnership (NP) National Electronic Information Consortium (NEICON) is a volunteer self-governed entity operating in the territory of the Russian Federation headquartered in Moscow. NP NEICON is the legal entity upon proper state registration, owning assets, and maintaining independent balance sheet, settlement and bank accounts. Being the largest academic consortium in Russia NEICON comprises more than 500 member institutions. The main goal of NP NEICON is the collaboration of all the non-profit users of the electronic resources in Russia. Part of the NEICON budget comes from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and is spent for subscription to the most valuable e-resources for the Russian research community. Access to the Collexis Knowledge Dashboard is totally covered by the Ministry's funds.
About Collexis Holdings, Inc.
Collexis Holdings, Inc., a leading developer of semantic search and knowledge discovery software is headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina (USA) with operations in Cincinnati, Ohio and Cologne, Germany. Collexis’ proprietary technology builds conceptual profiles of text, called Fingerprints, from documents, Websites, emails and other digitized content and matches them with a comprehensive list of pre-defined “fingerprinted” concepts to make research results more relevant and efficient. Collexis’ current clients in the public, private and academic sectors include the Mayo Clinic; Johns Hopkins University; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the University of California, San Francisco; the University of South Carolina; Erasmus University Library; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Lockheed Martin; the World Health Organization; Wellcome Trust; the National Institutes of Health; and the U.S. Department of Defense. Shares of Collexis common stock are traded under the symbol CLXS on the OTC Bulletin Board (OTC BB). For more information, visit www.collexis.com.
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