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AMSTERDAM, December 13, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - HealthMash Application Delivers Relevant Biomedical Concepts Related to Searches Elsevier (http://www.elsevier.com), a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced that as a result of a partnership with WebLib (http://weblib.com/), a new application, HealthMash, is now available on SciVerse Applications beta (http://www.applications.sciverse.com/)....

NEW YORK, December 9, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - Important Step in Increasing Access to Broader Audience Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today that it is participating in the recently launched Google eBooks store by including a large selection of Elsevier's eBook titles. Elsevier regards Google eBooks as a valuable new distribution channel to increase reach and accessibility of its...

AMSTERDAM, December 8, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - Text-to-Speech Option Enabled for All Elsevier ePub Book Titles Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and solutions, announced today that it has enabled the text-to-speech option on all of its ePub book titles. The text-to-speech function enables an e-book to read aloud. This will facilitate access by readers who would otherwise face a range of access challenges...

ATLANTA, November 22, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The College of Direct Support (CDS), an internet-based curriculum for Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) and managed in partnership by Elsevier/MC Strategies and the University of Minnesota's Research and Training Center, has introduced its latest offering in the form of a new genre of its online learning content. The new Learning Session is called "R&R Arcade: Direct Support Professionalism: Health Insurance Portability and...

AMSTERDAM, November 16, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - Release of Content APIs Empowers Developers to Create New Tools to Accelerate Science and Offers Platform for Sharing with the Global Scientific Community - More than a Dozen New Search and Discovery Apps Built by Academic and Commercial Development Partners Made Available - Application Framework Enables Researchers to Integrate Applications Directly Into Their Research Workflows Elsevier...

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...

AMSTERDAM, November 12, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Elsevier (http://www.elsevier.com) a leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical (STM) information, today announced the availability of Image Search, a new SciVerse ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com) feature that enables users to quickly and efficiently find images and figures relevant to their specific research objectives. The new feature allows researchers to search across more than 15 million images...

MORRISTOWN, New Jersey, November 9, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- International Medical News Group, LLC, an Elsevier company that provides medical news and information to physicians, announced today the launch of Cardiology Product Zone. This new product resource guide is launched in partnership with Pure Incubation, a company that specializes in developing data driven web properties and performance media programs that are focused exclusively on the product buying process. Cardiology...

AMSTERDAM, November 8, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the availability of SciVal Spotlight country maps (http://www.info.scival.com). The country maps are a new option for academic and governmental decision makers seeking to understand national research strengths against the increasingly interdisciplinary backdrop of global research. They are an extension of the...

TAMPA, Florida, November 3, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- - Pharmacists and Patients at Employee-Owned Retailer Will Use Alchemy for Accurate, Timely Medication Knowledge Gold Standard/Elsevier, developer of drug information and medication management solutions, announced today that Thrifty White Drug Stores, an employee-owned pharmacy with 88 stores in six states, has licensed Alchemy (http://www.goldstandard.com/pages/alchemy.html?epm=1_1) as the new drug database and decision support...