AMSTERDAM - Elsevier announced today that the Brazilian Federal Agency for the Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES) is expanding local research community access to Scopus(R), the company's flagship product and the world's largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. CAPES, which assists the Brazilian Ministry of Education in the formulation of national policies related to post-graduate study, will be making Scopus available to 200 universities and research institutes in Brazil, up from 44 in 2007.

LONDON - In a submission to the Government's Panel on Fair Access to the Professions the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) has suggested that what currently constitutes a profession, or more broadly professionalism is outdated.

MAIDENHEAD, England - Prevenar Helps Protect Children Against the Leading Vaccine-Preventable Cause of Death in Children Younger than Five Years of Age Worldwide

JOENSUU, Finland - Blancco Ltd., the global leader in data erasure and end-of-lifecycle solutions, has launched a tailored data erasure solution for SPARC servers and workstations. High end SPARC servers are typically used by data centres and organisations with mass data needs using the SPARC architecture offered by companies such as Sun Microsystems.

HELSINKI - Wärtsilä has received another major order from Pakistan. The order was placed by Liberty Power Tech Ltd. which is an independent power producer (IPP). The value of the contract is approximately EUR 137 million. The total gross electrical power output of the power plant is 200 MWe and the plant will be located near Faisalabad some 200 km west from Lahore.