Elsevier is offering $35,000 in prizes and challenging software developers to help more than 15 million researchers, medical professionals, librarians and students navigate scientific content, improve scientific search and discovery, visualize sophisticated data in more insightful and attractive ways and stimulate collaboration.

Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information, has opened their vast catalog of scientific content and provided APIs that enable developers to create apps that improve researcher productivity and workflow. Elsevier’s trusted content and meta-data integrates more than 10 million full text articles from over 2,500 journals and 11,000 books as well as over 42 million abstracts, citations and web content covering 18,000 titles from over 5,000 publishers.

Developers are encouraged to collaborate with researchers to develop the best apps to enhance the customer experience. Developers will retain full IP rights to their submissions and can host their apps on Elsevier’s SciVerse Application Marketplace where they can market their apps and gain revenue from 15 million users in over 10,000 institutions. Apps For Science is open to individual residents and organizations domiciled in seven countries: Australia, India, Japan, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom and the United States. 

$35,000 in prizes

To Enter Apps for Science and start working on your app you will need to download Elsevier’s Software Development Kit (plugin for Eclipse) and get access to Elsevier’s APIs and premium content. To get started:

1. Create an account on AppsForScience.com (this site) or log in at AppsForScience.com using an existing ChallengePost account.
2. Register to participate in order to get access to Elsevier’s APIs . You must agree to share your email address, first name, and last name with Elsevier in order to set up an account on their SciVerse platform, receive an API key and access content.
3. Download Eclipse at http://www.eclipse.org/ and the Elsevier Software Development Kit at http://developer.sciverse.com/sdk
4. To test and run your app, upload it to your SciVerse account

• Quality of the Idea
  Includes elements like creativity and originality.
• Implementation of the Idea
  How well it was executed. Includes user experience and design.
• Impact
  Potential positive impact on SciVerse customers.