New Web Tool for Physicists, Called AIP UniPHY, Promises to Enhance Collaboration,...

New Web Tool for Physicists, Called AIP UniPHY, Promises to Enhance
Collaboration, Speed Science

COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A physicist created the
World Wide Web in 1989 as a tool for helping far-flung scientific
collaborators share data, and in the two decades since its invention, the Web
has changed the world. Now a new Web-based tool for the physics community,
called AIP UniPHY, promises to help physicists change the world again.

Announced today by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and Collexis
Holdings, Inc., AIP UniPHY is a scientific networking site geared towards
physical scientists. It allows them to search for collaborators, see what
competitors are up to, communicate with colleagues, and exhibit their own
latest work.

"Worldwide collaborations between scientists certainly enable more rapid
advances toward the development and implementation of many of the modern
technologies we often take for granted," says National Science Board member
Louis Lanzerotti, who is chair of AIP's governing board.

"This new site should help scientists collaborate as never before -- and
immediately so," says AIP Executive Director and CEO H. Frederick Dylla, who
will announce the launch of AIP UniPHY on Thursday, September 10 at the
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers meeting in the
United Kingdom. "This new service will help level the playing field when it
comes to worldwide physics by bringing scientists and their latest findings
closer than ever, faster than ever."

"AIPUniPHY.org further demonstrates how the Collexis proprietary
Fingerprinting technology can be applied in any scientific discipline," states
Bill Kirkland, CEO of Collexis. "We are looking forward to working with AIP on
the expansion of the AIP UniPHY network as well as working with their
affiliated publisher partners so that they too will be able to provide their
respective communities with this very innovative professional network
platform."

Unlike Facebook and other social networking sites that rely upon outside users
to join and populate their databases with a galaxy of linked information, AIP
UniPHY comes pre-populated with the profiles of hundreds of thousands of
scientists from more than 100 countries, all interconnected by virtue of their
publication histories.

Any scientist who has published at least three articles over the past ten
years in one of the more than 100 journals in the Searchable Physics
Information Notices (SPIN) database
(http://scitation.aip.org/jhtml/scitation/spincodens.jsp) has a profile on AIP
UniPHY. Each profile is connected to a network of other profiles that belong
to a person's co-authors on any paper. And each profile is also connected to
all the co-authors of any co-authors -- whether that profile belongs to a
graduate student, post-doc, professor, Nobel laureate, or the U.S. Secretary
of Energy.

On the existing site, users can look at other authors' publishing records,
view lists of co-authors, and browse for collaborations by research category.
The site will evolve over the coming months to include many additional
collaborative features, data sources, and social networking functions.

The new networking site can be viewed at http://www.aipuniphy.org. The site is
meant for working scientists, but anyone can set up an account and view the
networks.

About AIP
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. AIP is a leader in the field of electronic publishing of
scholarly journals. It 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 Cincinnati, Ohio, 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 the Mayo Clinic; Johns Hopkins
University; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the University of South Carolina;
Erasmus University Library; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Lockheed Martin; the World
Health Organization; Wellcome Trust; the National Institutes of Health; and
the U.S. Department of Defense. Shares of Collexis common stock are traded
under the symbol CLXS on the OTC Bulletin Board (OTC BB). For more
information, visit www.collexis.com.

SOURCE American Institute of Physics

Jason Socrates Bardi of the American Institute of Physics, +1-301-209-3091,
jbardi@aip.org; or Darrell W. Gunter of Collexis Holdings, Inc.,
+1-973-454-3475, gunter@collexis.com