Elsevier to improve mobile capability

STM publisher Elsevier is to invest in a new online platform – Smart Content - to improve mobile capability for more than 500 of its health, medical and life science websites.

The platform will offer improved search accuracy and high quality readability for mobile devices. The content will be semantically tagged to help with automated or curated topic collections.

For more information, see the original Elsevier press release.

Confirmed - Elsevier buys Mendeley

Publishing giant Elsevier has bought the social and research collaboration platform Mendeley.

Rumours of the acquisition began to emerge earlier in 2013, causing concern in some circles.  Some academic institutions had been calling for a boycotting of Elsevier products following increased subscription prices.

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