scite Expands to Central and South America with ITMS Partnership, Launching University Trials in Chile and Brazil

BROOKLYN, NY — June XX, 2021 — scite, an award-winning platform for discovering and understanding research articles via Smart Citations, and ITMS Group, the leading provider of information services, products, and solutions for optimizing library management in Latin America, have partnered to expand scite’s reach into Central and South America.

Through the partnership, ITMS Group will represent scite for individual and organization licenses in Central and South America. The partnership kicked off with a presentation by the co-founder and CEO of scite, Josh Nicholson, at the first ITMS Group Latin America Online virtual meeting. Already, the companies have established trials at universities in Chile and Brazil.

Nicholson says, “We’re excited to partner with ITMS Group to better serve researchers in Latin America. Their expertise and experience are critical, and we have been impressed by working with them already.”

Vice President of ITMS Group, Gabriel Suarez said, “The recent addition of scite to ITMS Group’s product and service offering to academic and research institutions in Latin America will empower researchers, faculty and students to improve and enhance their research via scite’s unparalled technology.”

About ITMS Group Inc.

Headquartered in Miami, Florida, with a satellite office in Sao Paulo, Brazil, ITMS Group delivers innovative, technology-driven products and services that build on our experience. ITMS Group currently represents over 30 high-impact scientific and technical and publishers, delivering peer-reviewed journals, eBooks, proceedings, and standards to over 1,000 universities, research institutions and governments worldwide.

About scite

scite is a Brooklyn-based startup that helps researchers better discover and understand scientific articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. Scite is used by researchers from dozens of countries and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health. For more information, please visit scite.ai, follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook, and download our Chrome or Firefox plugin. For careers, please see our jobs page.