Elsevier Announces the SciVerse ScienceDirect eBooks Collection 2011 Frontlist

ST. LOUIS, November 15, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --

- 439 new Titles Span 24 Diverse Subject Areas Bringing SciVerse ScienceDirect Total to 12,500 eBooks

Elsevier, the leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today its 2011 eBook collections available for advance purchase and to be released on SciVerse ScienceDirect, its online scientific knowledge platform. The 2011 offerings total 439 titles spread across 24 distinct subject areas, with individual titles scheduled to publish between January 1 and December 31, 2011.

These eBook collections are comprised of high-quality content published through Elsevier's prestigious imprints including Academic Press, Pergamon, North-Holland, W.B. Saunders, Mosby and Churchill Livingstone.

With the 2011 eBook collections, SciVerse ScienceDirect now offers over 12,500 titles and includes eBooks (monographs), major reference works, and book & handbook series. These 439 new titles span 21 unique subjects within the science and technology disciplines, as well as the health sciences disciplines of clinical medicine, health professions, and veterinary medicine.

"Elsevier's rigorous publication and peer review cycle means only the highest quality content is published each year," said Suzanne BeDell, Managing Director, Elsevier Science and Technology Books. "By migrating from print to online delivery of Elsevier's world-class content on the SciVerse ScienceDirect platform, today's academic, government, and corporate institutions can accelerate research with maximum convenience and interoperability."

The benefits of anytime, online access to foundation content on the newly launched SciVerse ScienceDirect platform include:

    - Increased return on investment by transferring budget from
      print books to online, providing more content to more users
    - Increased discoverability via free MARC 21 records
    - Greater interoperability via the SciVerse platform, with
      integration of content across the SciVerse suite for subscribed users
      of online books, journals and SciVerse Scopus plus discovery tools to
        accelerate research
    - An image searching feature that allows users to quickly find an
      image or graphic on a particular topic

Elsevier offers flexible Frontlist 2011 discounts on eBooks subject collections, as well as the Pick and Choose option for select titles following their respective publication dates.

Librarians, researchers, and those interested in the eBooks 2011 Collections, or any previously published eBooks can visit http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciencedirect/content/books/ for more information and booklists.

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    About Sciverse 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: SciVerse ScienceDirect.

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 information 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. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet (http://www.thelancet.com/) and Cell (http://www.cell.com/), and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions include SciVerse ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com/), SciVerse Scopus (http://www.scopus.com/home.url), Reaxys (https://www.reaxys.com/info/), MD Consult (http://www.mdconsult.com/php/226692601-2/homepage) and Nursing Consult (http://www.nursingconsult.com/php/226692647-2/home.html), which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite (http://www.scival.com/) and MEDai's Pinpoint Review ( http://www.medai.com/), which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.

A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier ( http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/homepage.cws_home) employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC ( http://www.reedelsevier.com/Pages/Home.aspx) , a world-leading publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).

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