BELGRADE, Serbia, February 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, today announced it has expanded its collaboration with the Serbian Library Consortium for Coordinated Acquisition (KoBSON). KoBSON members will now have access to Elsevier's journal back file content (research articles published before 1995), a collection of more than 4,000 ebooks and to research performance solution SciVal Spotlight. Existing access to ScienceDirect and Scopus has been extended until 2017.    

Newly secured access to ScienceDirect combined with Elsevier's journal back file content will enable members to navigate through the entire range of research articles available on ScienceDirect. Together with access to ebooks, Scopus and SciVal Spotlight, KoBSON's members now benefit from a further improved scientific information and evaluation infrastructure aiming to increase research output productivity and visibility in the scientific landscape.

Biljana Kosanovic, Head of KoBSON, said, "KoBSON was founded in 2001 with the aim to strengthen science and innovation in Serbia. Since then, we work closely with the research community, government and with academic publishers to increase access to global research literature. Expanding access to cover more of Elsevier's research management and database solutions enables our members to stay on top of global scientific research and developments. We are confident this will further strengthen Serbia's role in the international scientific research communities."

Endre Beky, Elsevier's Regional Director for Eastern-Europe said, "We are honoured to engage further with KoBSON and the Serbian research community. We share the Consortium's strategic approach of long-term research success to improve Serbia's position in global research ranking. Elsevier supports the pioneering spirit of the Consortium as they build on their strong regional capacity in science and education."  

About Kobson Consortium

KoBSON, the Serbian Library Consortium for Coordinated Acquisition was established in 2001 and represents the Serbian research community. Through the National Library of Serbia, acting as a hub, the Consortium currently provides access to some 40,000 international journal titles, and more than 30,000 books. All these licenses are financed centrally by the Ministry of Science through a contract with the National Library. The KoBSON portal is the official site of the Serbian Consortium, hosted and maintained by the Center for Scientific Information at the National Library of Serbia. The portal is intended to offer integrated access to electronic content subscribed by the Consortium.

About ScienceDirect

ScienceDirect is home to almost one-quarter of the world's peer-reviewed full-text scientific, technical and medical content. Over 15 million researchers, health care professionals, teachers, students and information professionals around the globe rely on ScienceDirect as a trusted source of nearly 2,200 journals, almost 900 serials and 25,000 book titles. ScienceDirect supports research and education with interactive elements in articles such as audio, video, graphs, tables and images, and offers tools so users can easily set alerts. Content on ScienceDirect also features embedded links to external datasets, including earth and environmental science data from PANGAEA, abstract and indexing data from Scopus and chemical reactions data from Reaxys. With almost 12 million content pieces available-including pre-publication release of articles and open access content from Elsevier journals-ScienceDirect is a premier platform for discovering the world of research.

About Scopus

Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize scholarly research. Its vast database contains abstracts and references from 21,000 titles from more than 5,000 publishers worldwide, ensuring broad interdisciplinary coverage in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and Arts & Humanities. Scopus was designed and developed with input from researchers and librarians internationally; and features direct links to subscribed full-text articles, other library resources and interoperability with applications such as reference management software.

About Elsevier

Elsevier is a world-leading provider 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 and Cell, and 25,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions include ScienceDirect, Scopus, SciVal, Reaxys, ClinicalKey and Mosby's Suite, which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, helping research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.

A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC, a world leading provider of professional information solutions in the Science, Medical, Legal and Risk and Business sectors, which is jointly owned 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).

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