ScienceDirect and Scopus to Developing Country Researchers

["Menefee, Daviess (ELS-NYC)" <D.Menefee@elsevier.com>]

Amsterdam, August 27th, 2010 - Elsevier and the Royal Tropical 
Institute (KIT) in Amsterdam announced on 26th of August the 
signing of a Memorandum of Understanding providing 150 
researchers working in least-developed and low-income countries 
with access to ScienceDirect and Scopus. Elsevier and KIT's 
department Information & Library Service (KIT ILS) in Amsterdam 
are collaborating on this unique public-private partnership to 
drive capacity building in information technology and management 
in the developing world. The new agreement will expand access for 
five years while sharing best practice in research and training.

"Elsevier and KIT have a long and productive relationship. The 
continuation of this initiative provides our partners in the 
South with access to a wealth of information that is directly 
relevant to their research. The association of the program with 
the Elsevier Foundation and Research4Life provides both 
recognition and sustainability. It is a privilege for KIT ILS to 
act as an intermediary in a co-operative effort that so closely 
matches our departmental and institutional goals," said Hans van 
Hartevelt, Director of KIT Information & Library Services. Jan 
Donner, CEO of KIT agrees: "This is a unique project which 
definitely matches our institutional goals. We are very proud 
that we can realize this together with Elsevier as an innovative 
co-partner."

"We are very happy to support the critical work that the Royal 
Tropical Institute is doing to drive access, usage and authorship 
in key developing world institutes, bringing key researchers 
closer to their peers and individual research communities around 
the world," said David Ruth, Executive Director of the Elsevier 
Foundation and Senior Vice President Global Communications, 
Elsevier. "This carefully targeted initiative is part of our 
overall effort with Research4Life and the Elsevier Foundation, to 
provide clinicians, researchers and policymakers in the 
developing world with access to the information they need to 
address critical health and sustainability challenges."


Daviess Menefee
Elsevier
Library Relations