Elsevier Introduces 'Elsevier Engineering Schoo...

AMSTERDAM, July 4 /PRNewswire/ --

    - Special Offer Combines Leading Engineering Information Sources
ScienceDirect(TM) and Engineering(TM) Village for Teaching Institutions



    Elsevier, a leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical (STM) 
information announced the introduction of a new offer to provide independent 
engineering schools with access to two leading engineering information 
sources in one package.



    The Elsevier Engineering School Edition(1) combines access to key
engineering journals and reference works on ScienceDirect with the
specialized engineering search via Engineering Information's (Ei) award
winning Engineering Village. Users can therefore search for scholarly
engineering literature via Engineering Village and access peer reviewed
full-text content in the physical sciences and engineering titles on
ScienceDirect. The reference works, journals and abstracts are all
interlinked so that users can access all the engineering information they
need quickly and easily.



    As Marten Stavenga, Global Business Development Manager for the Academic
market at Elsevier explains: "Independent engineering schools have been
asking us for an easy and convenient way of accessing the broad range of
specialized information which they require but without multiple
subscriptions. Elsevier Engineering School Edition is an ideal solution which
combines the best of two platforms in one offer. It is a convenient,
transparent one-stop-shop for engineering information at a reduced package
price".



    Ross Graber, Director of Marketing and Strategy for Engineering
Information explains further, "The expectations that employers now place on
engineering graduates are similar, regardless of whether a graduate attends a
large research institute or a smaller, vocational college. It's extremely
important that smaller institutions can use the same research methods and
information resources that are expected of students as they transition into
the workplace. The Elsevier Engineering School Edition was developed to
provide teaching institutions with the option to work with the high quality
information resources which will contribute to their students' education."



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).



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 2,000 journals published
by Elsevier and dynamic linking to journals from approximately 2,000 STM
publishers through CrossRef. An expanding program of online major reference
works, handbooks, book series and e-Books in all fields of science seamlessly
interlinks with primary research referenced in journal articles.



About Engineering Village

    Engineering Village is an award winning, web-based discovery platform
meeting the information needs of the engineering community. Engineering
Village couples powerful search tools, an intuitive user interface with
essential content sources, to provide engineers, engineering researchers and
students with the right information and more intelligence about the
information they're looking at. Engineering Village features the definitive
bibliographic database covering engineering literature, Engineering
Information's Compendex(R).



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    (1)Elsevier Engineering School Edition is available only to independent
engineering schools in Europe and Asia Pacific that do not award doctoral
degrees.



    
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