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Heard from an Elsevier person, their purpose is to own the market from the production to distribution and storage of scientific and medical information. That e
by ta988 6y ago
Heard from an Elsevier person, their purpose is to own the market from the production to distribution and storage of scientific and medical information.
That explains their acquisition of mendeley, their work on lab notebooks, acquisition of medical diagnostics systems...
- prepend 6y agoThey own LexisNexis too. It’s an interesting philosophy where they seem to try to corner information that is free, or should. Then charge rents on top of it.
- ta988 6y agoNice. Didn't know about that one so I had to Wikipedia it: "LexisNexis is a corporation providing computer-assisted legal research (CALR) as well as business research and risk-management services." if anybody is wondering.
- akiselev 6y agoWikipedia's description isn't very helpful sadly - they're like the real world data version of Microsoft or SAP, they have a ton of different products that are basically databases of data collected from a ton of different sources. Lawyers use LexisNexis to find research legal precedent and find the contact information of defendants to send cease and desists or where to serve them papers; universities and public schools use LexisNexis to search newspapers and other media; finance firms use it for various data feeds; and so on.
- ta988 6y agoOh wow I had no idea, now I want to have a look at it.
- EricE 6y agoWhen you get done I suspect you will have a strong urge to take a shower and also a newer, deeper understanding of "ignorance is bliss" Google are amateurs compared to LN....
- ta988 6y agoYep I gave it a try today semantic/faceted searching is really the next level of search... I wish we could do that for general web search