As a global scientific and medical publisher, we recognize our profound responsibility to contribute to and serve our professional and non-professional communities. We have built strong partnerships with national and international libraries and educational institutions, nonprofit organizations and other publishers, researchers, healthcare practitioners, faculty, students and policy makers around the world.

We are proud of our role in initiatives that influence how information is reviewed, validated, archived and disseminated. The results of these various collaborations help to foster communication, build insights, and enable individual and collective advancement in scientific research and healthcare.

INFORMATION LINKING: Seamless Linking to the World’s STM Literature

CrossRef™
A publisher-driven initiative,  CrossRef is a free reference linking service that provides seamless integration of current and archived content across publishers. Researchers and healthcare professionals can click on a citation and link directly to the target content from any participating publisher platform.

Open URL
Open URL standards address the growing demand for bi-directional interaction between linking systems. ScienceDirect supports the Open URL standard through a partnership with Endeavor’s LinkFinderPlus and SFX. Elsevier is an active participant in the ongoing development of Open URL and participates in the  National Information Standards Organization (NISO) committee that is refining the Open URL standard.

INFORMATION SHARING: Bridging the Information Divide

HINARI (Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative)
 HINARI provides online access to the major journals of the biomedical and related social sciences to public institutions in developing countries. Elsevier is proud to be one of the founding health publishers of this project, which is led by the World Health Organization.

AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture)
Inspired by the success of HINARI, the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization  AGORA project will provide access to high quality, relevant information in agriculture and related fields to developing countries. Elsevier is one of the founding publishers of this initiative, which will impact researchers, policy makers, educators, technical workers and extension specialists.

Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) – e-Journals Delivery Service
Through the ICTP’s pioneering  e-Journals Delivery Service (eJDS), scientists in developing countries will receive free access to Elsevier journals in physics, mathematics and computer science.

African Virtual University
Elsevier formed an alliance with the  African Virtual University (AVU) to provide mathematicians and physicists in sub-Saharan African with access to ScienceDirect. Students and researchers at AVU partner institutions will also gain access to a digital library with online academic literature and links to international libraries.

INFORMATION PRESERVATION: The Digital Library

Digital Archives
Working with Yale University Library and the national library in the Netherlands,  Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), we’ve confirmed key archival principles, including the need to adopt the Open Archival Information System (OASIS) standards for preservation systems. The KB holds the first official digital archive of Elsevier journals to ensure the information we publish is available and accessible in perpetuity.

TULIP (The University Licensing Program)
In cooperation with nine leading US universities, Elsevier established the TULIP project, which tested the technical feasibility, economic viability and usage patterns of networked delivery to and use of journals at the desktop. Findings provided valuable insight on the digital library, its development and future impact on universities, users and publishers.

INFORMATION GROWTH: Advancing Science Education & Research

The Elsevier Foundation
 The Elsevier Foundation offers grants and contributions to organizations, youth development and literacy programs that advance science education, vital research and scholarly thinking. The Foundation supports many local communities where our employees live and work, as well as the broader scientific, technical and medical communities we serve.

INFORMATION STANDARDS: Partnerships for Progress

STIX (Scientific and Technical Information Exchange) Font Creation Project
The  STIX Font Creation project is a collaborative effort by scientific publishers to develop a comprehensive set of fonts for mathematics and other special characters used in scientific, technical and medical publishing. The complete set of STIX fonts is available to anyone under royalty-free license.

COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources) Code of Practice
A founding member of  COUNTER, Elsevier has signed a declaration of compliance of the usage reports of ScienceDirect. COUNTER is an international effort involving librarians, publishers and their professional organizations to facilitate a single, accepted, extendible Code of Practice to measure the usage of online information products and services.