The Social Media Lab at the Dalhousie School of Information Management is pleased to announce the first ever Social Media Lab – Elsevier WebApp Concept Design Competition to find the next great web application for Elsevier’s* new SciVerse search and discovery platform.  Elsevier is offering $3,000 in prizes and challenging Dalhousie students 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. All Dalhousie students are welcome to participate. For more information about this competition, please visit http://socialmedialab.ca/?page_id=3106.                                                                            

No programming skills are required for this competition, just your creativity!

* Elsevier is the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information. Recently they have 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.