Forschungszentrum Julich Selects Scopus Custom Data for Global and Regional Analysis

AMSTERDAM, January 11 - Elsevier announced today that Scopus Custom Data, the underlying source
of Scopus.com, the world's largest abstract and citation (A&C) database, was
selected by Forschungszentrum Julich, one of the leading research centers in
Europe, to calculate global reference values at subject and country levels.

Forschungszentrum Julich is a member of Helmholtz Association, Germany's
largest scientific organization in terms of staff and budget.
Forschungszentrum Julich is the only research institute of its kind within
the Helmholtz Association that conducts bibliometric analysis and works with
raw data, a primary reason for the partnership between Elsevier and Julich.
They found that the breadth of content in Scopus allowed for more German and
international literature from a single data source to be captured, thereby
providing the broadest content coverage. Scopus currently covers 1,326 active
German titles.

"The Central Library of Forschungszentrum Julich undertakes bibliometric
analyses for scientific managers and heads of institutes in order to evaluate
scientific output. By installing Scopus locally, we intend to benefit from
more precise searches and to make the most of using worldwide bibliometric
comparisons as a benchmark," said Dr. Bernhard Mittermaier, Head of the
Central Library. "Another benefit of a local database installation is that it
enables error checking of the data at the same time. Overall, we believe this
will help us to further refine bibliometrics at Julich."

"We are very proud to be collaborating with an institution with
the stature of Forschungszentrum Julich," stated Niels Weertman, Director,
Performance & Planning and Collaboration Tools for Elsevier. "Scopus custom
data continues to set the research standard and we look forward to working
with Julich to improve the method of bibiliometric analysis."

Julich is one of many similar institutions around the world that are now
using Scopus data as an authoritative data source for research performance
measurement including: the Australian Research Council, and more recently the
University of Goeteborg in Sweden.

About Forschungszentrum Julich:

Forschungszentrum Julich pursues cutting-edge interdisciplinary research
on solving the grand challenges facing society in the fields of health,
energy and the environment, and also information technologies. In combination
with its two key competencies - physics and supercomputing - work at Julich
focuses on both long-term, fundamental and multidisciplinary contributions to
science and technology as well as on specific technological applications.
With a staff of about 4400, Julich - a member of the Helmholtz Association -
is one of the largest research centres in Europe.

About Scopus.com and Scopus Custom Data

Covering the world's research literature, Scopus.com is the largest
abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web
sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Its unique
database contains abstracts and references from 18,000 peer-reviewed journals
from more than 5,000 publishers worldwide, ensuring broad interdisciplinary
coverage. In addition, Scopus not only offers users citation information
about the articles covered, but also integrates web and patent searches
directly from its clean and simple interface. Direct links to full-text
articles, library resources and other applications like reference management
software, make Scopus quicker, easier and more comprehensive to use than any
other literature research tool. For more information about Scopus please
visit www.info.scopus.com

Scopus Custom Data provides research agencies, institutions and
government bodies with customized datasets in XML format for large-scale
research performance analysis. Scopus Custom Data extracts Scopus core
records in accordance to each customer's individual specifications, such as
date range, subject categories and geographic location. The XML data can then
be loaded by customers into their proprietary in-house systems, making it
possible for them to run their specific search queries and execute their own
analytical techniques; providing the analyst with the freedom to formulate
their own reports. It empowers them to make well-informed, unbiased resource
allocation and policy making decisions.

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),
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