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Byline: Wendy Warr
STM mines workflow
Scientific, technical and medical (STM) information has had an eventful 2007, full of acquisitions, controversies and new products.
On the business side, a key event was Elsevier's acquisition of the Beilstein database, the world's largest chemical reaction database, which also contains huge numbers of experimentally measured physicochemical properties. Rumour has it that the acquisition price was in the region of $200m ([pounds sterling]97m), which is a lot more than Elsevier might have paid had it done a deal a few years ago.
Elsevier shifted the Beilstein, Gmelin and Patent Chemistry databases ...
Source: HighBeam Research, STM mines workflow.(scientific, technical and medical information,...