Elsevier Announces the SciVerse ScienceDirect eBooks Collection 2011 Frontlist

439 new Titles Span 24 Diverse Subject Areas Bringing SciVerse ScienceDirect Total to 12,500 eBooks

ST. LOUIS, November 15, 2010 - 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 distinct subject areas, with individual titles scheduled to
publish between January 1 and December 31, 2011.

These eBook collections are comprised of high-quality content published
through Elsevier's prestigious imprints including Academic Press, Pergamon,
North-Holland, W.B. Saunders, Mosby and Churchill Livingstone.

With the 2011 eBook collections, SciVerse ScienceDirect now offers over
12,500 titles and includes eBooks (monographs), major reference works, and
book & handbook series. These 439 new titles span 21 unique subjects within
the science and technology disciplines, as well as the health sciences
disciplines of clinical medicine, health professions, and veterinary
medicine.

"Elsevier's rigorous publication and peer review cycle means only the
highest quality content is published each year," said Suzanne BeDell,
Managing Director, Elsevier Science and Technology Books. "By migrating from
print to online delivery of Elsevier's world-class content on the SciVerse
ScienceDirect platform, today's academic, government, and corporate
institutions can accelerate research with maximum convenience and
interoperability."

The benefits of anytime, online access to foundation content on the newly
launched SciVerse ScienceDirect platform include:

    - Increased return on investment by transferring budget from
      print books to online, providing more content to more users
    - Increased discoverability via free MARC 21 records
    - Greater interoperability via the SciVerse platform, with
      integration of content across the SciVerse suite for subscribed users
      of online books, journals and SciVerse Scopus plus discovery tools to
        accelerate research
    - An image searching feature that allows users to quickly find an
      image or graphic on a particular topic

Elsevier offers flexible Frontlist 2011 discounts on eBooks subject
collections, as well as the Pick and Choose option for select titles
following their respective publication dates.

Librarians, researchers, and those interested in the eBooks 2011
Collections, or any previously published eBooks can visit
www.info.sciverse.com/sciencedirect/content/books/ for more
information and booklists.

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About Sciverse ScienceDirect

Over a quarter of the world's full text scientific, technical and medical
(STM) peer-reviewed articles - managed by renowned editors, written by
respected authors and read by researchers from around the globe - are
available in one place: SciVerse ScienceDirect.

Elsevier's extensive and unique full-text collection covers authoritative
titles from the core scientific literature including high impact factor
titles such as THE LANCET, Cell and Tetrahedron. Over nine million articles
are available online, including Articles in Press which offer online access
to recently accepted manuscripts. The critical mass of trusted information
available on ScienceDirect is unsurpassed. Coverage includes over 2,500
journals published by Elsevier and dynamic linking to journals from
approximately 2,000 STM publishers through CrossRef. An expanding program of
online major reference works, handbooks, book series and over 4,400 eBooks in
all fields of science seamlessly interlinks with primary research referenced
in journal articles.

About Elsevier

Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and
medical information products and services. The company works in partnership
with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000
journals, including The Lancet (www.thelancet.com/) and Cell
(www.cell.com/), and close to 20,000 book titles, including major
reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions include
SciVerse ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com/), SciVerse Scopus
(www.scopus.com/home.url), Reaxys (https://www.reaxys.com/info/), MD
Consult (www.mdconsult.com/php/226692601-2/homepage) and Nursing
Consult (www.nursingconsult.com/php/226692647-2/home.html), which
enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal
suite (www.scival.com/) and MEDai's Pinpoint Review (
www.medai.com/), which help research and health care institutions
deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.

A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier (
www.elsevier.com/wps/find/homepage.cws_home) employs 7,000 people
worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC (
www.reedelsevier.com/Pages/Home.aspx) , a world-leading publisher and
information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed
Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London
Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).

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    Tom Reller
    Vice president, Global Corporate Relations, Elsevier
    T.Reller@elsevier.com
    +1-215-239-3502

Media contact: Tom Reller, Vice president, Global Corporate Relations, Elsevier, T.Reller at elsevier.com, +1-215-239-3502