Elsevier ensures that published research is preserved in perpetuity for scientists and clinicians and invests in the digitization of its publications for future generations of scholars.

Elsevier protects library holdings by granting our librarian customers the right to archive their electronic holdings in the same manner as physical holdings (books and journals), ensuring libraries and their users have permanent access to any subscribed electronic Elsevier publications.

In addition, Elsevier works with others to preserve the posterity of published journal articles. In 2002, Elsevier and the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) reached a groundbreaking agreement in electronic archiving when the KB agreed to be the first, official, independent, digital archive of all Elsevier journals.

Elsevier also signed a second archival agreement in 2005 with Portico, a non-profit archiving agency and is also in discussion with other potential archival partners.

Elsevier continually invests in products, processes and cross publisher initiatives to improve scientific
communications.

Elsevier co-founded CrossRef™, which enables researchers and health professionals to link to content across publishers and provides around 25% of CrossRef's operating budget.

Elsevier is a founding member of the International DOI Foundation, incubating and supporting the use of Digital Object Identifiers.

Elsevier was a founding member of the Copyright Clearance Center and has been on its board for over 20 years. Copyright Clearance Center helps publishers by providing the licensing services that allow librarians, faculty and staff, copy shops and others to get the permission they need to include copyright material in coursepacks, e-reserves and other educational tools.

Elsevier is a board member of NISO (National Information Standards Organization) a non-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), which identifies, develops, maintains, and publishes technical standards to manage information in our changing and ever-more digital environment.

Elsevier is also an active participant in the ongoing development of Open URL standards, addressing bi-directional interaction between linking systems. Elsevier's ScienceDirect supports Open URL standards through a partnership with Endeavor's LinkFinderPlus and SFX.

The STIX Font Creation project is a collaborative effort led by Elsevier with five other scientific publishers to develop a set of computer-displayable fonts for mathematics and other special characters used in STM publishing.

As a founding member of COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources) Elsevier has signed a declaration of compliance for ScienceDirect's usage reports. COUNTER is an international initiative leading to a single, accepted, extendible Code of Practice to measure the usage of online information products and services.

Elsevier is always interested in new approaches and new technologies leading to innovation in the area of knowledge dissemination and management, and frequently collaborates with academia on these projects.

If you would be interested in collaborating with us and working towards improving scientific knowledge transfer based on a sound approach of testing, listening and learning, and then finally implementing, please contact any of the physics and astronomy publishers listed below:

Dolors Alsina
Condensed Matter Physics, Surfaces and Interfaces
d.alsina@elsevier.com

Charon Duermeijer
Nonlinear, Statistical and Applied Physics
c.duermeijer@elsevier.com

Diddel Francissen
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy
d.francissen@elsevier.com