Greek Academic Libraries Expand Agreement With Elsevier for Books on ScienceDirect and Referex Engineering

AMSTERDAM, February 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- The World's First E-Only Consortia Expands Elsevier Portfolio

Elsevier (LSE:REL; NYSE:ENL; NYSE:RUK) announces the signing of a 2-year agreement with the Hellenic Academic Libraries Link (HEAL Link), a consortium of 57 Greek educational and research institutions expanding their Elsevier access to books on ScienceDirect and Engineering Village's reference database, Referex Engineering. The current agreement expands the existing 2005 agreement which provided HEAL Link members with full access to Scopus, ScienceDirect's eight million full-text articles and Elsevier's three million article Backfiles collection.

HEAL Link chose to expand researchers' access to include the ScienceDirect E-books collection plus over 400 full-text professional reference titles from Referex Engineering. Each delivers leading content and state-of-the-art functionality. ScienceDirect has recently announced a 4,000 title expansion for 2007 complementing its fully linked and cross-searchable electronic books and journals platform.

"As part of our strategy to provide our researchers with quality electronic resources I am pleased we have negotiated this deal with Elsevier as it further extends our portfolio of electronic materials," stated Professor Vassilios J. Papazoglou, Chairman of the HEAL-Link Consortium. "The addition of the ScienceDirect and

Engineering electronic books collections' provides our researchers with great added value. Moreover, this is another great example of success in an agreement as all parties - HEAL-Link, Elsevier, and Swets Information Services, the agent who has undertaken the Consortium's financial administration - benefit."

"It is a continuing honor to provide the HEAL-Link libraries, one of the world's first e-only consortia, with expanded access to a wide range of Elsevier's key services and projects. We believe strongly that ScienceDirect, the Backfiles collection, Scopus and Engineering Village contribute significantly to the researcher' experience- not to mention productivity," noted Frank Vrancken Peeters, Managing Director, Academic & Government, Elsevier Science & Technology.

About Engineering Information

Engineering Information (Ei) is the leader in providing online information, knowledge and support to engineering researchers. The company provides information research tools specifically focused on the content and intelligence that engineering researchers need to stay informed and step ahead of the competition. Ei products help users:

Find the right information among an ever-increasing volume of available data; Turn accurate and reliable information into actionable intelligence for making the right decisions the first time and Work faster toward better and more productive solutions. For more information about Ei and its products, including Engineering Village 2(TM), Compendex(R), and Ei EnCompass(TM) please visit www.ei.org. Ei is a business of world leading publisher, Elsevier. For more information about Referex Engineering http://www.ei.org/databases/referex_engineering.html

About ScienceDirect

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

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 eight million articles are available online, including Articles in Press which offer rapid access to recently accepted manuscripts. The critical mass of information available on ScienceDirect is unsurpassed. Coverage includes over 2000 journals published by Elsevier and dynamic linking to journals from approximately 350 STM publishers through CrossRef. An expanding program of online major reference works, handbooks and book series in all fields of science seamlessly interlinks with primary research referenced in journal articles. For more information on ScienceDirect e-books: www.info.sciencedirect.com/books

About Elsevier

Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. Working in partnership with the global science and health communities, Elsevier's 7,000 employees in over 70 offices worldwide publish more than 2,000 journals and 1,900 new books per year, in addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products, such as ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com/), MD Consult (http://www.mdconsult.com/), Scopus (http://www.info.scopus.com/), bibliographic databases and online reference works.

Elsevier (http://www.elsevier.com/) is a global business headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and has offices worldwide. Elsevier is part of Reed Elsevier Group plc (http://www.reedelsevier.com/), a world-leading publisher and information provider. Operating in the science and medical, legal, education and business-to-business sectors, Reed Elsevier provides high-quality and flexible information solutions to users, with increasing emphasis on the Internet as a means of delivery. Reed Elsevier's ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).