The Chronicle of Higher Education
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Elsevier-Is-Becoming-a-Data/240876
As researchers’ focus moves from articles to data, there are two basic types at stake. The biggest category is data from research studies themselves — all the health statistics on patients, measurements of asteroids and plant growth, numerical tallies of jobs, chemicals, genes, neutrinos, public attitudes, and much more. The other category is data describing the published articles and their citation rates — often called metadata — which is typically sought by those studying, administering, or funding the scientific process itself.
Elsevier appears quite interested in both categories, Mr. Larivière said. Just last week Elsevier added to its dossier Bepress, a company founded in 1999 by three academics at the University of California at Berkeley that compiles research data to help universities showcase their accomplishments ...
With its other divisions — such as Hivebench, Mendeley, Pure, and SSRN — Elsevier can now offer a nearly complete range of data-related services to scientists, from study design and grant application to laboratory note-taking and file-sharing, to publication and post-publication assessment of effects.
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