Elsevier to Launch Over 600 Health Science E-Bo...

ST. LOUIS, January 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Increases Accessibility to Market-Leading Health Science Content

    Elsevier, the world's leading publisher of scientific, technical and
medical information products and services, announced today that over 600
Medical, Veterinary Medicine, and Health Professions book titles will be
launched in Health Science eBook Collections in April 2009 on ScienceDirect,
its online scientific research platform.



    Elsevier's health science books are published under the imprints W.B.
Saunders, Mosby, Churchill Livingstone, and Hanley & Belfus, publishers with
a rich medical and health science publishing heritage dating back to 1688.
The inclusion of these books on ScienceDirect will allow more researchers
across the world to access these valuable content resources.



    To date, Elsevier's medical and health science book titles have only been
available through MD Consult (http://www.mdconsult.com) for clinical
practitioners and medical education, Evolve eBooks (
http://evolve.elsevier.com/ebooks) for health professions education, and
Veterinary Consult (http://evolve.elsevier.com/vetconsult) for veterinary
medicine education. The thousands of authors represented in the Elsevier
medical and health science collections on ScienceDirect will now enjoy
greater market visibility, increasing the potential for research
collaboration and recognition.



    "As part of Elsevier's strategic expansion of its electronic content
offerings, we are pleased to offer a wide range of high-quality medical books
via ScienceDirect, further expanding the value and breadth of content
available on ScienceDirect," commented Linda Belfus, Senior Vice President,
Global Medicine, Health Sciences. "This represents an important opportunity
for our medical books to achieve greater utility and visibility in the global
medical and scientific community, as well as reach new markets."



    Linda Duncan, Vice President and Publisher, Nursing & Health Professions,
Health Sciences, added "Elsevier's inclusion of books from health science
areas such as physical therapy, optometry, and veterinary medicine on
ScienceDirect exposes customers around the globe to content they might not
readily have been able to access previously."



    The addition of the Elsevier Health Science Collections follows the
successful launch of Elsevier's Science & Technology book titles late in 2007
and contributes to the evolution of the ScienceDirect platform into a
comprehensive and complete source of global scientific knowledge.



About ScienceDirect

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



    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 nine million articles
are available online, including Articles in Press which offer online access
to recently accepted manuscripts. The critical mass of trusted journals
available on ScienceDirect is unsurpassed. Coverage includes over 2,500
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 over 4,400 eBooks in
all fields of science seamlessly interlinks with primary research referenced
in journal articles.



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).


    
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