AMSTERDAM, February 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- In Partnership With QUOSA, Scopus Significantly Reduces the Time Needed
to Download and Organize Full-Text Articles.

Scopus(R), the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed
literature and quality Web sources, today announced that it has partnered
with QUOSA to introduce the Document Download Manager, a new tool that
enables its users to download and rename multiple full-text articles
simultaneously, reducing the procedure from minutes to seconds.

With Document Download Manager researchers can initiate the download of
up to 50 full-text articles simultaneously from the Scopus results list. In
some cases this can be done with as few as three clicks in total versus the
approximately 150 clicks needed to do so without the Document Download
Manager.

The tool, freely available in Scopus, will further save researchers time
by automatically renaming the downloaded full-text articles according to a
user-chosen naming convention. Traditionally, full-text articles have default
names which can vary from a random set of letters and numbers to complicated
and lengthy URLs. The Document Download Manager will provide the user with
the option to choose a meaningful naming convention that will then be
accredited to all the articles downloaded via Scopus, enabling the user to
organize their files quickly and easily.

"The procedure of being able to directly download articles simply and
with my own naming options is a great idea. It helps me to easily and quickly
organize my retrieved results on my own computer and thus saves time and
effort. It makes it easy to deal with results that I select for further
analysis and review", says Tefko Saracevic, Ph.D, Professor II, School of
Communication, Information and Library Studies at Rutgers University.

The Document Download Manager will significantly save time on repetitive
and laborious tasks. "As we are committed to helping researchers increase
their productivity, it is a great pleasure to offer a functionality that
significantly reduces the time spent on gathering and organizing information.
In the end, it is the analysis that adds value." says Niels Weertman,
Director Scopus.

This service is the outcome of a partnership with QUOSA, the supplier of
full-text article retrieval, organization and searching solutions. "We are
very excited about our partnership with Scopus", says Malcolm MacKenzie,
President of QUOSA. "It is a powerful way of extending some of our key
functionality to an important user base. Scopus' QUOSA-powered Document
Download Manager will be a major boon to researchers as it frees them from
some of the tedious aspects of acquiring and managing PDFs. And, of course,
it is seamlessly integrated with QUOSA Information Manager's full-article
organization function."

About QUOSA:

QUOSA Inc. is a specialist software company focused on supplying superior
tools to life-science professionals for working with the scientific
literature and research related documents. With a large and rapidly growing
subscriber-base in academic and government research and medical centers and
at leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, QUOSA's applications
are used to compress time to insight across the key functions of the research
endeavour. For more information about QUOSA, please visit:
http://www.quosa.com

About Scopus

Covering the world's research literature, Scopus is the largest abstract
and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources
with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Scopus is designed
and developed with over 500 users and librarians internationally. Its unique
database contains abstracts and references from 15,000 peer-reviewed journals
from more than 4,000 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 http://www.info.scopus.com.

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).

For more information contact:

    Lauren Hillman
    Fusion Public Relations
    T: +1-202-898-2000, ext. 117
    E: lauren.hillman@fusionpr.com