Northern Light Introduces Discovery Portals

"According to Northern Light’s CEO, C. David Seuss, a significant content type included in the discovery portal is conference abstracts and poster presentations at scientific conferences. “We spent a couple of years tracking down conference information, which is scattered throughout the web and metatdata is not automatically included.” Plus, when it comes to posters, they convey information by images rather than words. Seuss further commented that the conference abstracts fill a “substantial gap in the literature” since it can be several years before research presented at a conference is published in a peer-reviewed journal. What’s worse, “Controversial research may never be published.” Seuss doesn’t think that open access publishing or the open science movement has changed this...."