Elsevier Signs Three Year Agreement With Jordan...

AMSTERDAM, August 16 /PRNewswire/ --

    - Jordanian Research Community Benefits From Access to 2,000 
Peer-Reviewed Journals



    Elsevier announced the signing of a three-year agreement for the
provision of vital scientific and medical information to the Jordanian
Consortium. The special agreement provides all Jordanian undergraduates,
graduates, researchers, faculty and staff within the consortium with access
to ScienceDirect collection of 2,000 journals reaching back to 2002. The
agreement covers authoritative titles from the core scientific and medical
literature including high impact factor journals such as The Lancet and Cell.



    The Jordanian consortium is composed of: The University of Jordan,
Yarmouk University, Mu'tah University, Jordan University of Science &
Technology, Hashemite University, Al-Al Beit University, Al- Balqa'a Applied
University, Al- Hussein Bin Talal University. The agreement not only provides
the Jordanian research community with complete access to full-text articles
on ScienceDirect, but also includes the standard Elsevier "walk-up"
provision, permitting all Jordanian citizens coming to libraries for
scientific and medical information to access the subscribed content.



    "Elsevier is honored to collaborate with the libraries of the Jordanian
Consortium to provide their communities with a quarter of the world's peer
reviewed literature," remarked Frank Vrancken Peeters, Managing Director
Sales, Science & Technology, Elsevier, "We would also like to extend our
thanks and admiration to the consortium's many critical partners in achieving
this agreement: Dr. Khalid Toukan (Minister of Higher Education and
Scientific Research); Dr. Refaet Al-Fauri (Vice President, Yarmouk
University); Dr. Mohammad Raqab (Dean of Libraries, University of Jordan);
Eng. Munir Asad, IT Coordinator, Ministry of Higher Education; and Mr. Awad
Athamneh (Head, Center of Excellence for Public Jordanian Universities
Libraries)."



    "ScienceDirect is a useful and important research tool for both
quality-control and promoting our own school. The faculty members and
researchers here are extremely comfortable with this database which includes
top journals in various disciplines," said Dr. Mohammad Raqab, Dean of
Libraries at University of Jordan.



About Elsevier

    Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and 
medical information products and services. Working in partnership with the 
global science and health communities, Elsevier's 7,000 employees in over 70 
offices worldwide publish more than 2,000 journals and 1,900 new books per 
year, in addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products, such 
as ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com/), MD Consult (
http://www.mdconsult.com/), Scopus (http://www.info.scopus.com/),
bibliographic databases, and online reference works.



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