SAE International Partners With Elsevier

New Partnership Delivers Unmatched Breadth and Depth of Automotive and Aerospace & Defense Engineering Information

AMSTERDAM, April 7, 2010 - SAE International (www.sae.org/), a world leader in the
development and distribution of engineering information for the mobility
industry, is teaming with Elsevier, the world's leading publisher of
scientific, technical and medical information. Together, the organizations
will deliver an extensive unmatched breadth and depth of automotive and
aerospace & defense engineering information to better serve the information
needs of industrial, research and academic communities worldwide.

Under the agreement, engineers and researchers can access SAE
International's more than 20,000 technical papers written between 1906 and
1979, as well as SAE International's entire library of 88,000 documents
utilizing subject-specific indexing and contextualized searching via
Elsevier's online solutions Scopus (www.scopus.com/), the world's
largest abstract and citation database and Compendex on Engineering Village,
delivering 12 million indexed bibliographic citations and abstracts from
thousands of engineering journals and conference proceedings.

The ability to index SAE International's content in Elsevier's
databases is a monumental development, as now engineers and researchers can
search and retrieve SAE's content in context of other publishers, especially
in interdisciplinary contexts, such as O&G (including biofuels, fuel cells,
alternative energy), plastics, aerospace, electronics, transportation, HVAC,
physics and lubricants.

Martin O'Malley, Managing Director, S&T Corporate Markets,
Elsevier, said, "We believe that adding the complete set of SAE papers to our
databases, where they can be exposed to a larger, global audience will
enhance our users' access to and understanding of automotive and aerospace
science".

"This new partnership is an important step forward in
expanding SAE International's reach into the global mobility community", says
Thomas Drozda, SAE International's Director of Program and Product
Development. "By teaming with Elsevier, access to SAE technical information
is expanded into many new sectors and industries not traditionally reached by
SAE".

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 owned jointly 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).

About SAE

SAE International is a global association of more than 128,000 engineers
and related technical experts in the aerospace, automotive and
commercial-vehicle industries. SAE International's core competencies are
life-long learning and voluntary consensus standards development. SAE
International's charitable arm is the SAE Foundation, which supports many
programs, including A World In Motion(R) and the Collegiate Design Series.

    Contact
    Name: Tom Reller
    Phone: +1-(215)-239-3508
    E-mail: newsroom@elsevier.com

Name: Tom Reller, Phone: +1-(215)-239-3508, E-mail: newsroom at elsevier.com