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Symyx Technologies to Acquire MDL from Elsevier

It seems that Elsevier has finally decided the synergies between its journal/book/database businesses and MDL aren't going to fully materialise - which is a shame given that one can see huge advantages in bringing electronic laboratory notebooks, reaction/property databases and journal content into a seamless platform for both academia and industry.

Symyx Technologies has announced today a $123m all cash purchase of MDL, which, given the undisclosed but heavily speculated price Elsevier paid for the Beilstein Database in March can't possibly include these products.

Chemistry Central is currently working with MDL on improving author support for submission of ISIS/Draw and MDLDraw schemes, graphical abstracts and figures.
 

Posted by Bryan Vickery at 12:28    Comments (1)

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