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AMSTERDAM, September 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, is proud to announce the Australian Research Council has selected SciVerse Scopus, the world's largest abstract and citation database, for the third time as the sole citation provider for the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) assessment for 2012. ERA is an Australian Government initiative to assess the quality...

AMSTERDAM, September 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier, world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the winners of the Young Scientist Awards, sponsored by Elsevier as part of the National Research Foundation (NRF) President's Awards in Pretoria, South Africa on September 1st. The event was attended by Ms. Naledi Pandor, Minister of Science and Technology South Africa; Dr. Albert van Jaarsveld, CEO of the...

AMSTERDAM, August 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- DIRECT2Experts connects researchers across disciplines, institutions and platforms Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced that 14 institutions that use SciVal Experts, Elsevier's directory of research expertise, now participate in DIRECT2Experts [http://direct2experts.org ]. This online network allows users from...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, August 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier, a leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services announced today that nursing students in Malaysia can look forward to better understanding medical terms with the adaptation of the popular Bailliere's Nurses' Dictionary. The Malaysian edition features dual language definitions where the first section of the dictionary provides Bahasa Malaysia definitions and the...

AMSTERDAM, August 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, and the National University of Singapore (NUS), a leading global university centered in Asia, announced the winners of SgCodeJam24. This "Hackathon", a 24-hour programming competition, encourages students and faculty to develop customized applications that advance the search and discovery process of scientific information....

BRIDGEWATER, New Jersey, August 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier Business Intelligence [http://www.elsevierbi.com ], the biopharma industry's leading provider of strategic business intelligence and conferences, is hosting Windhover's 21st Pharmaceutical Strategic Alliances [http://www.windhover.com/psa ] (PSA) September 21-23, 2011 at the Millennium Broadway in New York, NY. PSA is the only conference of its kind to provide direct access to such a diverse mix of...

PHILADELPHIA, August 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- New app edition includes more than 1,000-color illustrations, making anatomy come alive anywhere, anytime Elsevier, the leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today its new Gray's Anatomy for Students App, for iPad, is now available on the App Store. The app includes content from Gray's Anatomy for Students, Second Edition. The Gray's Anatomy for Students App...

PHILADELPHIA, August 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- $1 for every medical textbook activated on Student Consult from August through November will go to International Medical Corps, dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs Elsevier, the world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today that it will contribute to...

AMSTERDAM, August 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier Presents Interactive Gene Sequence Information From NCBI Inside Published Articles Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, introduces the Genome Viewer, a new interactive feature on SciVerse ScienceDirect for applicable life sciences journals. The Genome Viewer is a SciVerse application that displays detailed gene or...

AMSTERDAM, July 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- - Text-to-speech application enables researchers to listen to scientific articles on SciVerse ScienceDirect Elsevier, a world leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the availability of an audio reader application from iSpeech, provider of cloud-based speech technology and mobile apps, on SciVerse Applications beta [http://www.applications.sciverse.com ]. The...