AMSTERDAM, September 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- ScienceDirect Works With QUOSA to Reduce the Time Needed to Download
and Organize Full-Text PDF Articles

ScienceDirect, Elsevier's online science, technology and medicine (STM)
information platform, today announced that it has partnered with QUOSA to
introduce the Document Download Manager, a new feature that enables
researchers to download multiple full-text articles simultaneously. QUOSA,
who specialize in building information management tools, are providers of the
Download Manager technology.

With Document Download Manager researchers can initiate the download of
up to 20 PDF versions of full-text research articles from any results list
with much fewer clicks. In an example of time-saving, downloading five
articles now takes only seven clicks instead of 21. The Download Manager
enables researchers to automatically name downloaded full-text articles
according to their own naming convention and pre-select a preferred
destination for downloads. This helps reduce the irritation factor of lost
files, and makes the process much more intuitive.

"My first reaction to the Document Download Manager is that it will be
very valuable, particularly as this allows naming conventions for the article
and default storing locations to be specified. I can see big advantages in
saving download time when I do multiple file downloads, and all that gets
done in parallel." Dr. S. Venkadesan, Librarian, JRD Tata Memorial Library,
Indian Institute of Sciences.

The Document Download Manager will significantly save time on some of the
repetitive and laborious tasks involved in research today. "We are committed
to making the research process more efficient and helping researchers'
increase their productivity, and the Download Manager is a feature that
significantly reduces time spent on gathering and organizing information,"
comments Rafael Sidi, Vice President, Product Management, ScienceDirect.

Malcolm MacKenzie, President of QUOSA, says, "As a specialist in
information management tools for academic and commercial researchers we feel
this partnership with Elsevier provides ScienceDirect users with an
integrated workflow solution for the most common pain points for users
accessing online full-text content."

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, see http://www.elsevier.com)

About QUOSA

QUOSA Inc. is a specialist software company focused on supplying superior
work-flow tools to science, technical and medical professionals for reviewing
and managing the scientific literature and related documents. With a large
world-wide subscriber-base in academic and government research and medical
centers and at leading life-science and technical companies, QUOSA's
literature management systems and applications are used to enhance efficient
access to essential information and to compress time to insight across the
key functions and work-processes of its customer organizations. For more
information about QUOSA, please visit: http://www.quosa.com

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