[This message is cross-posted. Please pardon the duplication.] AIP UniPHY
Unveils Sleek New Graphical Interface and Enhanced Functionality; Site Surpasses
10,000 Registered MembersAIP significantly upgrades rapidly growing networking
site for physical scientists
Melville, NY, December 1, 2009 – The American Institute of Physics (AIP) today
announced the launch of Release 2 of the AIP UniPHY (aipuniphy.org) professional
networking site for physical scientists. Developed in partnership with Collexis
Holdings, Inc., a leading developer of semantic technology and knowledge
discovery software, this latest release sports an enhanced design and new, more
powerful features to further assist physical science researchers worldwide to
connect and collaborate.
The enhancements to AIP UniPHY are far reaching, highlighted by a more
streamlined and user-friendly interface, complete with a new layout and new
graphics. Researchers will find the changes substantive, including the CV
section, where researchers can display their professional profiles, including
education, work histories, and current research interests. In addition, a blog,
managed by AIP, offers helpful information on how to get maximum use from the
site.
“Today’s generation of scientists entering research in university and corporate
and government facilities has grown up using Web tools, such as instant
messaging, blogging and social networking. We want to give them these same tools
as their desire for them inevitably spills over into their professional lives,”
said John Haynes, AIP’s Vice President, Publishing. “We launched AIP UniPHY to
fill a void we perceived in professional and scientific networking. The positive
feedback we have received and the 10,000 members that have registered with AIP
UniPHY in the two short months since its launch confirm that there was a real
need for the site.”
To improve functionality on the AIP UniPHY site, Collexis and AIP have
incorporated additional features, including the ability for users to upload
photos, link to social bookmarking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Delicious,
and a “People you might know” feature, which lists researchers that have
collaborated with one’s co-authors.
“We are very pleased with the new features and enhancements of our next
generation Social Community platform developed together with AIP UniPHY and
feedback from the research community,” said Mario Diwersy, Chief Technology
Officer of Collexis. “New key functionalities and the enhanced visualization
will certainly help the user community to augment their ability to connect and
collaborate with their fellow physicist, which in turn will indeed push primary
research and foster new ideas and papers.”
AIP UniPHY continues to enable researchers to explore the networks that connect
them with more than 275,000 colleagues from more than 100 countries. They can
discover the research each of these individuals has conducted and identify each
co-author with whom the investigator has worked. AIP UniPHY reveals with whom
each of these co-authors has collaborated, as well.
The American Institute of Physics is a federation of 10 physical science
societies representing more than 135,000 scientists, engineers, and educators
and is one of the world's largest publishers of scientific information in the
physical sciences. Offering partnership solutions for scientific societies and
for similar organizations in science and engineering, AIP is a leader in the
field of electronic publishing of scholarly journals. AIP publishes 12 journals
(some of which are the most highly cited in their respective fields), two
magazines, including its flagship publication Physics Today; and the AIP
Conference Proceedings series. Its online publishing platform Scitation hosts
nearly two million articles from more than 185 scholarly journals and other
publications of 28 learned society publishers.
 
About Collexis Holdings, Inc.
Collexis Holdings, Inc., a leading developer of semantic technology and
knowledge discovery software is headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina (USA)
with operations in Cologne, Germany and Valparaiso, Chile. Collexis now offers
the world’s first pre-populated scientific social network for life science
researchers, www.biomedexperts.com. Collexis’ proprietary technology builds
conceptual profiles of text, called Fingerprints, from documents, Websites,
emails and other digitized content and matches them with a comprehensive list of
pre-defined “fingerprinted” concepts to make research results more relevant and
efficient. This matching of concepts eliminates the ambiguity and lack of
priority associated with word searches. The results are often described as
“finding needles in many haystacks.” Through this novel approach, Collexis
can build unique applications to search, index and aggregate information as well
as prioritize, trend and predict data based on sources in multiple industries
without the limitations of language or dialect. Collexis’ current clients in the
public, private and academic sectors include Johns Hopkins University;
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the University of California, San Francisco; the
University of South Carolina; Erasmus University Library; Lockheed Martin; the
World Health Organization; Wellcome Trust; the National Institutes of Health;
and the U.S. Department of Defense.
 
For more information, please contact:
Chris Iannicello
American Institute of Physics
2 Huntington Quadrangle
Suite 1NO1
Melville, NY 11747 USA
T: +1 516-576-2289
F: +1 516-576-2327
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