Elsevier Launches Next-Generation Digital Learning Platform to Provide Health Professions Students 24/7 Access to eContent and Advanced Collaboration Tools

Designed for the Way Health Professions Students Learn, Pageburst Goes Beyond Typical E-Book Platforms by Adding Integrated Multimedia, Text-To-Speech, an Instructor Grade Book and Other Features

PHILADELPHIA, January 26 - Elsevier, (www.elsevier.com/wps/find/homepage.cws_home) the
leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information, today
announced the launch of Pageburst(TM) (www.pageburst.com), an
interactive digital learning platform for Elsevier health science education
content. Pageburst surpasses existing e-Book platforms because it is designed
for the way students learn, with features such as integrated multimedia,
text-to-speech, social networking tools and an integrated instructor grade
book. The Pageburst platform is designed specifically for nursing and health
professions students in North America who require anytime/anywhere access to
course material and utilize texts as reference guides throughout their
careers.

"With Pageburst, we can unlock higher levels of performance by
engaging students with interactive and immersive course materials in a
variety of formats," said John King, Ed.D., Senior Vice President and Chief
Academic Officer at Lincoln Educational Services. "Students can now spend
class and exam prep times more efficiently and easily organize course
materials to match their program's curriculum with integrated searchable
content from a robust collection of the most current Elsevier titles."

Pageburst is built upon easy-to-use and recognizable software
tools that allow painless implementation and support for health science
educators, students and practitioners seeking superior teaching, learning and
clinical outcomes. The platform enables users to master course content
quickly and easily by working with their entire collection of Elsevier health
science titles in text, video and audio formats and by collaborating online
with faculty and classmates within the context of the content.

"Moving from print to digital will improve engagement,
increase learning and enhance the value of the content to help students
succeed throughout their careers as health professionals," said Sally
Schrefer, Managing Director, Nursing and Health Professions, Elsevier Health
Sciences. "We listened to our customers and created a breakthrough solution
that meets their unique education needs and surpasses their expectations of
what digital textbook platforms can deliver."

Designed for How Today's Students Learn and Study

Accessible offline or online through Elsevier's market-leading
Evolve portal, Pageburst is Elsevier's new platform for accessing a much
wider array of features and functionality for its digital textbooks.
Pageburst is easy for faculty and students to access and use and is delivered
through the device most college students already have - a computer.

Elsevier's community of health education experts designed
Pageburst to enhance the way health professions students think, learn, and
study. For example, students will be able to create personalized study guides
and instantly link content within the text to expert definitions and
descriptions in dictionaries and other Elsevier reference works. They will
also be able to view a video or animation within the context of applicable
textbook content to help clarify complex concepts. Additionally, students can
increase retention and easily learn terms that look alike, sound alike or are
hard to pronounce by clicking a button to hear the correct pronunciation and
meaning.

Fully integrated collaboration tools within Pageburst will
help students gain and share knowledge through personal learning networks
that connect students, instructors, and user groups directly from within the
content. Both students and instructors can embed notes and links directly
into textbook content. Additional features include interactive quizzes and
activities that can be submitted to an instructor's virtual grade book.

Pageburst is web-based, so it can be accessed anytime, on any
device with a supported web browser. Students can also download their content
to their desktop or laptop computers to study offline. Unlike other e-Book
platforms, Pageburst is at one time: (1) interactive, (2) with book content
available both on-and-offline that (3) will be available to the student over
the course of their lives after a single purchase. Students can also download
an iTunes application that syncs highlighted material along with accompanying
notes with their iPhone or iPod Touch, enabling quick, anytime access to the
information they need most.

Student to Save Money by Using Pageburst vs. Print Textbooks

Unlike the average undergraduate student seeking deeply
discounted content for one semester, health professions students are more
likely to retain their textbooks for future classes and to reference in
professional practice. Still, Pageburst users will save up to 20 percent off
the print price on each title, plus benefit from the suite of electronic
enhancements. The nation's approximate 1.2 million nursing and health
professions students often purchase several books per semester, and on
average more than half of those books are Elsevier titles. With the digital
textbooks on Pageburst, that means students can not only save substantial
dollars, but also benefit by cross-referencing multiple books on one
integrated platform. Titles purchased on Pageburst do not expire; they can be
downloaded to a user's hard drive and accessed indefinitely.

More than 550 of Elsevier's most-used book titles are
available on the platform, including Potter's Fundamentals of Nursing,
Chabner's Language of Medicine, and Lewis's Medical Surgical Nursing.

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
ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), Scopus (www.scopus.com),
Reaxys (www.reaxys.com), MD Consult (www.mdconsult.com) and
Nursing Consult (www.nursingconsult.com), 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) employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part
of Reed Elsevier Group PLC (www.reedelsevier.com), 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).

    Tom Reller, Vice President,
    Global Corporate Relations
    +1-215-239-3508
    T.Reller@elsevier.com

Tom Reller, Vice President, Global Corporate Relations, +1-215-239-3508, T.Reller at elsevier.com