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Bioalma Adds More than 140,000 New Full-Text Research Articles to novo|seek

Boston, Mass., and Madrid, Spain, April 27, 2009 – Bioalma today announced at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, that novo|seek is now capable of executing full-text searches in all Open Access journals housed in PubMed Central.

Leveraging Bioalma’s text mining capabilities, users can now extend beyond just the abstract to identify – for the first time – key information housed in the full-text article. By identifying key biomedical terms in the entire text, searches yield the most relevant research results available today.  Additionally, by adding Open Access journals to the novo|seek universe of search targets extends the number of searchable articles by an average of 1,000 new articles per day, or about 140,000 total new articles.

“Our goal with novo|seek is to provide users with the easiest ways to access to the latest research and grant information available for the biomedical community,” said Ramon Alonso-Allende, director of marketing and business development, Bioalma. “By providing access to more than 140,000 new pieces of research, we’re arming users with novo|seek’s powerful text mining capabilities to search all Open Access full-text articles and abstracts. We are looking forward to adding as much open access and free access content as we can to broaden the scope of literature users can mine.”

Open access rights to biomedical research is important as it goes beyond just free access to content, making distribution, copying and derivative work production possible. Free access only allows the individual to view the content, but not use it or share it, and, it’s not made available in public repositories.  To learn more about the differences between open access and free access and what this means for the biomedical community, please visit the novo|seek blog.

Bioalma will be exhibiting novo|seek – a powerful alternative to traditional information retrieval systems aimed at a variety of audiences within the biomedical community – at Bio-IT World Conference & Expo this week at booth #111.

For independent researchers who would like their published papers in novo|seek, please contact openaccess@novoseek.com.