ScienceBase
Enrich Your Content to Drive Value and Innovation
Science & Technology
Insight Discovery Tools for Science and Technology Researchers
"Providing the best discovery experience will likely catch the eyes of the big indexes as well as your user base. In short, use Google et al. to get users to your site, and then use tools like NetBase to make your content more findable."
Ned May,
Director & Lead Analyst
Researchers are suffering from information overload. Science and technology publishers that empower their users to innovate faster are the ones that can create new revenue streams and stand out from the competition.
Science Base, your insight discovery tool from NetBase, enables science and technology publishers to enrich their documents for researchers and deliver more value with their existing content assets. Using a single tool, researchers can tap into billions of sources of public and proprietary information—including scientific journals, news articles, company websites, patents, scientific blogs, and more—and focus search results with the context of the problems they’re trying to solve. As a result, they can find answers much faster than with traditional search techniques and discover unexpected ways to innovate.
With ScienceBase, you can:
- Improve customer satisfaction and retention
- Create new revenue streams and attract new customers
- Increase the value of existing content
- Gain a competitive edge
Two Flexible Deployment Options
As a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering, ScienceBase fits easily in your existing technology environment and offers you two flexible options for NetBase- powered insight discovery.
The first option is to incorporate ScienceBase’s “insight window” alongside your traditional keyword-based search results. You can deploy NetBase insights quickly and easily while maintaining the existing structure of your portal. Your users will like its intuitive results interface, which organizes search results according to the insights they deliver (technologies, applications, techniques, pros and cons, companies, etc.).
Alternatively, you can leverage ScienceBase’s robust application programming interface (API) to build your own unique innovation portal. This option gives you the flexibility to design a user experience specifically tailored to the nature of your content and your users’ needs. For example, the largest publisher in the world, Reed Elsevier, built a powerful research tool called illumin8 using ScienceBase APIs.
The ScienceBase Insight Window
The ScienceBase insight window puts search results in the context of the questions your users are trying to answer: applications and techniques, products and technologies, organizations, and so on.
Tool Built with ScienceBase API
illumin8 is a research tool that Reed Elsevier built using ScienceBase APIs. It powers numerous innovations across multiple industries by providing valuable input for scoping opportunities when exploring new markets, products and technologies in the critical early stages of the innovation process.
ScienceBase offers unique technology that reads full sentences rather than simply finding occurrences of keywords. In doing so, it can take advantage of the millions of linguistic patterns in the English language to infer meaning and extract relationships. A patent-pending Science & Technology lens then focuses these search results with the context of the problems that your customers’ researchers typically face.
Seeing Through the Science & Technology Lens:
- What organizations provide or use a particular technology?
- What products use or contain a technology?
- What are the applications of a technology?
- What are the pros and cons of a technology?
- What organizations address a particular problem or provide a benefit?
- What techniques are used to address a particular problem?
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