Elsevier Offers 950 New Health Titles to Research4Life

AMSTERDAM, October 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ –

Leading health sciences publisher makes key Mosby, Saunders, Churchill
Livingstone electronic titles freely available through UN developing world
research access program

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical
information products and services, today announced that it is contributing
an additional 950 electronic books to Research4Life
[http://www.research4life.org ], a public-private partnership working to
achieve the UN’s Millennium Development Goals by providing developing world
access to critical scientific research. Building on the 800 existing
Elsevier science and technology books, the new electronic books cover
Clinical Medicine (438 titles), Health Professions (332 titles), Veterinary
Medicine (174 titles), and Clinical Dentistry (24 titles). These include
seminal works such as Clinical Gynecology, Cancer Pain, Pain Medicine,
Spinal Cord Injuries, and Saunders Manual of Small Animal Practice and will
be accessible to users by the end of the year.

“Health practitioners and researchers in developing countries will
benefit greatly from this increased ebooks offering, said Kimberly Parker,
HINARI Programme Manager at the WHO, “We greatly appreciate the efforts made
by Research4Life partners to continuously improve and update their content
offering to those who need it most.”

“Contributing clinical titles helps to support doctors and nurses in the
developing world to treat their patients and enhance their quality of life.
It also benefits researchers in the developing world by providing them with
access to critical, current information and supports them to become fully
integrated into the international research community.” remarked Alicia Wise,
Director of Universal Access at Elsevier, “Research4Life is central to our
goal of achieving universal access to scientific, technical and medical
information, so we’re very pleased to make this contribution and to work in
partnership with everyone involved in Research4Life.”

Elsevier is a founding member of Research4Life and the leading
contributor of content with over 1600 participating journals, 1800
electronic books and SciVerse Scopus, a web-integrated literature research
tool with direct links to 18,000 full-text articles from 5,000 publishers.
The program’s key partners include: WHO, FAO, UNEP, WIPO, Cornell and Yale
Universities, the International Association of Scientific, Technical and
Medical Publishers, 150 publishers and technology partner, Microsoft.

About Research4Life

Research4Life is the collective name for four public-private
partnerships which seek to help achieve the UN’s Millennium Development
Goals by providing the developing world with access to critical scientific
research. Since 2002, the four programmes, Health Access to Research
(HINARI), Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA), Online
Access to Research in the Environment (OARE) and Access to Research for
Development and Innovation (aRDi) program have given researchers at more
than 5,000 institutions in 105 developing world countries free or low cost
access to over 7,000 journals provided by the world’s leading science
publishers. For more information please visit
http://www.Research4Life.org and Research4Life YouTube channel
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-zAgYtUAvE ].

About Elsevier

Elsevier is a world-leading provider 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.nl ], Reaxys [http://www.reaxys.com ], MD Consult
[http://www.mdconsult.com ] and Nursing Consult
[http://www.nursingconsult.com ], 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 ] employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is
part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC [http://www.reedelsevier.com ], 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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