Scopus Press Releases: - University of Newcastle Ensures Access to New Navigational Tool for Over 20,000 Staff and Students

First users in Asia Pacific to Benefit from Scopus®

University of Newcastle Ensures Access to New Navigational Tool for Over 20,000 Staff and Students

Tokyo, November 18, 2004

At the Scopus launch event held at the Grand Hyatt in Tokyo today, Elsevier announces the University of Newcastle as the first customer to license Scopus in Asia Pacific. Among selected customers and prospects attending the event are the University of Newcastle’s Greg Anderson and Kirston Neilson.

Scopus is a new navigational product from Elsevier, a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and health information products and services used by leading institutions all over the world.

Scopus is the world's largest abstract and indexing database covering 27 million abstracts and citations from over 14,000 STM and social science journal titles and conference proceedings, from over 4,000 international publishers. Superior navigation through the available scientific literature is enabled by means of new searching and browsing functionality. 85 institutions in Asia Pacific have been trialing Scopus prior to its commercial launch.

The University of Newcastle was among the first institutions to trial Scopus in Australasia when the pre-release version of Scopus became available earlier this year. The University of Newcastle was quick to recognize the unique value of Scopus when the product was used by its user community during the 3-month trial and decided to license Scopus after the trial ended in October 2004.

With this purchase, the University of Newcastle has become the first library in Australia as well as Asia Pacific to subscribe to the new service, giving over 20,000 academic staff and students access to a more extensive range of resources than that available to students at other Australian institutions.

"This launch is a great opportunity to have the University of Newcastle internationally recognized as a leader in the provision of electronic resources for its staff and students. Our long commitment to giving our students access to an intensive range of resources now gives us a chance to be major players in the Australasian region," says Greg Anderson, Director of Library Services, University of Newcastle.

Linda Dunne, Account Manager for Australasia commented, “Scopus was officially introduced to Australasia only in July and the interest has been tremendous with 15 customers actively trialing the product to date. In adopting Scopus before anyone else in the region, the University of Newcastle has, in effect, equipped its staff and students with a superior navigational tool, ensuring better search results”

For more information on Scopus please visit www.info.scopus.com.

-ends-

Notes to Editors

For more information, or to speak with the Scopus development team, please contact the Scopus Press Office on +1 703 255 0277 or email news@scopus.com.

Scopus Background

Scopus is Elsevier's highly anticipated, full text-linking abstract and indexing (A&I) database
The first fully functioning version of Scopus was released to select libraries for final testing and user trials on 15th March 2004. Full commercial release of Scopus is 3rd November 2004
Scopus was conceived solely in response to librarian and user requirements, and is the result of a two year collaboration with librarians and researchers at over 20 of the world's foremost institutions
At the heart of Scopus is the biggest A&I database of scientific literature ever assembled, covering titles from over 4000 STM publishers. Scopus also simultaneously searches the scientific Web using the science-only Internet search engine, Scirus
The Scopus user interface offers easy-to-use searching straight from the home page and intuitive browsing tools
Users can link to their entitled full-text articles in one click, making ‘dead-links' a frustration of the past
Industry-leading levels of reliability and powerful delivery are coupled with local customer support, customer-specific usage reports which have just been awarded COUNTER-compliant status, as well as on- and off-site training, to make Scopus a complete package for librarians and end-users

About Elsevier
Elsevier (www.elsevier.com) is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. Working in partnership with the global science and health communities, Elsevier’s 6,800 employees in 86 offices worldwide publish more than 1,800 journals and 2,200 new books per year, in addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products, such as ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com/), MD Consult (http://www.mdconsult.com/), Scopus (http://www.news.scopus.com/), bibliographic databases, and online reference works.

Elsevieris a global business headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and has offices worldwide. Elsevier is part of Reed Elsevier Group plc (http://www.reedelsevier.com/), a world-leading publisher and information provider. Operating in the science and medical, legal, education and business-to-business sectors, Reed Elsevier provides high-quality and flexible information solutions to users, with increasing emphasis on the Internet as a means of delivery. Reed Elsevier's ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).