Monday, February 25, 2008
Elsevier’s new illumin8 research tool is designed to help corporate research professionals answer complex R&D questions faster and more accurately
Elsevier combines ScienceDirect content with NetBase’s semantic index technology to create a web-based ‘technology intelligence’ tool that answers sophisticated technology and market questions.
According to the company, illumin8 is the first web-based research tool that integrates natural language search technology with content from Elsevier’s full-text scientific articles, millions of scientific abstracts, patents and billions of web sources to give users actionable solutions for research initiatives.
The product is Elsevier’s latest online solution that transforms its high value content into actionable knowledge, in formats that fit into the professional’s workflow. “We have found illumin8 to be a unique and effective way to mine the Internet and premium content for solutions to technical problems and questions,” says Mary Poul, marketing manager from 3M Medical Systems, which has beta-tested illumin8. “The value for us is the unique search capability with the deep and broad content set. Further, doing the research without illumin8 would have taken weeks and I would have spent countless hours looking at data that was not relevant to my project.”
To build illumin8, Elsevier has partnered with NetBase (formerly Accelovation; www.netbase.com), a provider of research software solutions that enable knowledge workers to mine the Internet and other online data to accelerate research.
How illumin8 works illumin8 combines search and semantic indexing technologies to distill deep meaning, purpose and insight from the vast amount of Elsevier’s full-text content, scientific abstracts from 4,000 publishers, patents and billions of web pages. This research tool extracts and analyzes solutions, which are then categorized under organizations, products, technologies, approaches, and experts. illumin8 is designed to go beyond simple keyword search, quickly finding and extracting crisp summarized answers and interrelationships that are semantically related to the context of the search query.
In addition to finding solutions from 5 billion web pages, millions of patents and Elsevier’s premium scientific content, illumin8 users will be able to access the full-text of Elsevier journals if they have an online subscription to the journal through ScienceDirect, the world’s largest online platform of science, technical and medical (STM) content.
“Research professionals now have a purpose-built productivity tool tailored to deliver solutions and insights in seconds. With illumin8, we are unlocking new value from Elsevier’s world class content and other sources,” says Rafael Sidi, vice president for product development of Elsevier’s Engineering & Technology Division. “R&D knowledge workers no longer need to spend hours, days or weeks sifting and reading through thousands of search results or full-text documents, and then manually synthesize results to find actionable answers. illumin8 is poised to transform the way companies innovate, find solutions to their R&D problems, collaborate and make key R&D investment decisions.”
For more information, go to:
www.illumin8.com or
www.netbase.com SOURCE: Elsevier