KnowledgeLink Newsletter

May 2008

Thomson Reuters is partnering with Collexis Holdings to deliver the premier vertical search tool for the research community.

Thomson Reuters and Collexis Holdings Inc. (a developer of high definition search and knowledge discovery software) have joined together Web of Science® and Collexis' Knowledge Dashboard to deliver the premier vertical search tool for the research community. The Knowledge Dashboard powered by Web of Science will provide enhanced knowledge discovery for the academic and government R&D communities. Unlike standard search engines, the Dashboard will give users the ability to search and analyze journals and cited research back to 1985, search for experts and hypotheses in specific fields, and discover key trends and emerging research paths.

"By marrying the data and functionality of our technology and domain expertise in the life sciences with Thomson Reuters's extensive research journal database, we are enabling users to take their research to the next level," said Bill Kirkland, CEO of Collexis Holdings, Inc.

The Knowledge Dashboard is a custom software and information solution featuring:

• the ability to analyze large numbers of publications concerning a defined topic swiftly and efficiently, and filter the essential information
• opportunities to explore existing knowledge concepts, providing proactive suggestions about the direction of research across a topic or by category
• multiple thesauri that enable different points of view on the same data and subject navigation.
• summarized information which is not to be found in any system currently available
• identification of experts across categories on multiple subsets of the literature instantly — including their relevant social network.

"Thomson Reuters is dedicated to providing our customers with powerful ways to mine the published literature," said Dave Kochalko, vice president, business strategy. "Turning the Collexis engine on Web of Science will expose new insights and give users the tools to make ground breaking discoveries on specific topics in the life sciences, such as Alzheimer's or Diabetes, or any research discipline."