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NEW YORK, September 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Collaboration makes over 225,000 maps available on-demand to help geoscientists quickly and accurately assess the opportunities and risks involved in oil & gas exploration Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, and SEPM [http://www.sepm.org ] (Society for Sedimentary Geology)...

AMSTERDAM, September 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/homepage.cws_home ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, now offers its entire collection of books and journals on its online platform ScienceDirect, as well as access to its abstracts and citation database Scopus to innovators in 105 countries for free or little cost through the ARDI [http://www.wipo.int/ardi/en ] (Access to...

NEW YORK, September 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr George "Rusty" Gray II to further nurture Acta's three leading journals in the material sciences: Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, and Acta Biomaterialia Acta Materialia Inc [http://www.actamaterialia.org ]. is pleased to announce that Dr George "Rusty" Gray II has been appointed as Chairman of the Board of Governors of Acta Materialia Inc. effective immediately. He succeeds Dr William F. Scott who passed away June 25,...

SYDNEY, August 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, is proud to announce the launch of Performance Enhancement & Health - a new international, peer-reviewed journal that critically explores the health implications of performance enhancement on the human being, from steroid doping in elite athletes, right through to amphetamine use amongst truck...

PHILADELPHIA, August 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 700 Pageburst titles made available at campus bookstores and online using Follett's Digital Passcode Fulfillment (DPF) process Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/homepage.cws_home ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced a collaboration with Follett Higher Education Group, operator of more than 900 college and university stores...

OXFORD, England, August 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- An international journal dedicated to exploring the full range of contemporary discourse work Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, is pleased to announce the launch of a new quarterly journal, Discourse, Context and Media. Discourse, Context and Media provides an innovative...

AMSTERDAM, August 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced a substantial number of its medical, scientific and professional reference books are now available on the iBookstore. These titles join the list of hundreds of Elsevier books already available and over the next few months, Elsevier will be bringing additional scientific, technical and...

PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ebrary®, a ProQuest business, today announced that Elsevier Science & Technology Books is adding over 1,000 titles to Academic Complete(TM), the industry's first and most scholarly subscription database of more than 78,000 e-books with unlimited, multi-user access. This marks the first time that these Elsevier titles, covering subjects such as mechanical engineering, chemical and process engineering, and civil...

AMSTERDAM, July 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Grand Prize goes to IntelliScholar, built by participants from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, today announced the winners and winning applications of its second CodeForScience (CFS) Competition, a global series of application development competitions...

AMSTERDAM, July 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announces the launch of Applied and Translational Genomics, an open access journal. The journal is dedicated to publishing articles on applied genomics and translational research. The completion of the human genome project gave way to research that takes the genetic code and applies it to research...