Greek Academic Libraries Expand Agreement With ...

AMSTERDAM, February 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- The World's First E-Only Consortia Expands Elsevier Portfolio

    Elsevier announces the signing of a 2-year agreement with the Hellenic
Academic Libraries Link (HEAL Link), a consortium of 57 Greek educational and
research institutions expanding their Elsevier access to books on
ScienceDirect and Engineering Village's reference database, Referex
Engineering. The current agreement expands the existing 2005 agreement which
provided HEAL Link members with full access to Scopus, ScienceDirect's eight
million full-text articles and Elsevier's three million article Backfiles
collection.



    HEAL Link chose to expand researchers' access to include the
ScienceDirect E-books collection plus over 400 full-text professional
reference titles from Referex Engineering. Each delivers leading content and
state-of-the-art functionality. ScienceDirect has recently announced a 4,000
title expansion for 2007 complementing its fully linked and cross-searchable
electronic books and journals platform.



    "As part of our strategy to provide our researchers with quality
electronic resources I am pleased we have negotiated this deal with Elsevier
as it further extends our portfolio of electronic materials," stated
Professor Vassilios J. Papazoglou, Chairman of the HEAL-Link Consortium. "The
addition of the ScienceDirect and



    Engineering electronic books collections' provides our researchers with
great added value. Moreover, this is another great example of success in an
agreement as all parties - HEAL-Link, Elsevier, and Swets Information
Services, the agent who has undertaken the Consortium's financial
administration - benefit."



    "It is a continuing honor to provide the HEAL-Link libraries, one of the
world's first e-only consortia, with expanded access to a wide range of
Elsevier's key services and projects. We believe strongly that ScienceDirect,
the Backfiles collection, Scopus and Engineering Village contribute
significantly to the researcher' experience- not to mention productivity,"
noted Frank Vrancken Peeters, Managing Director, Academic & Government,
Elsevier Science & Technology.



About Engineering Information

    Engineering Information (Ei) is the leader in providing online
information, knowledge and support to engineering researchers. The company
provides information research tools specifically focused on the content and
intelligence that engineering researchers need to stay informed and step
ahead of the competition. Ei products help users:



    Find the right information among an ever-increasing volume of available
data; Turn accurate and reliable information into actionable intelligence for
making the right decisions the first time and Work faster toward better and
more productive solutions. For more information about Ei and its products,
including Engineering Village 2(TM), Compendex(R), and Ei EnCompass(TM)
please visit www.ei.org. Ei is a business of world leading publisher,
Elsevier. For more information about Referex Engineering
http://www.ei.org/databases/referex_engineering.html



About ScienceDirect

    Over a quarter of the world's full text scientific, technical and medical
(STM) articles - managed by renowned editors, written by respected authors
and read by researchers from around the globe - are available in one place:
ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com).



    Elsevier's extensive and unique full-text collection covers authoritative
titles from the core scientific literature including high impact factor
titles such as THE LANCET, Cell and Tetrahedron. Over eight million articles
are available online, including Articles in Press which offer rapid access to
recently accepted manuscripts. The critical mass of information available on
ScienceDirect is unsurpassed. Coverage includes over 2000 journals published
by Elsevier and dynamic linking to journals from approximately 350 STM
publishers through CrossRef. An expanding program of online major reference
works, handbooks and book series in all fields of science seamlessly
interlinks with primary research referenced in journal articles. For more
information on ScienceDirect e-books: www.info.sciencedirect.com/books



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.



    Elsevier (http://www.elsevier.com/) is a global business headquartered in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands and has offices worldwide. Elsevier is part of
Reed Elsevier Group plc (http://www.reedelsevier.com/), a world-leading
publisher and information provider. Operating in the science and medical,
legal, education and business-to-business sectors, Reed Elsevier provides
high-quality and flexible information solutions to users, with increasing
emphasis on the Internet as a means of delivery. Reed Elsevier's ticker
symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and
ENL (New York Stock Exchange).