Dr. Michiel Kolman, Senior Vice President Global Academic Relations at Elsevier, talks about how the “Research Strengths of India,” are revealed through Elsevier's bibliometric tool SciVal Spotlight.
Dr. John Green of Imperial College London explains how they are working with Elsevier to help higher education institutes in the UK make the right choices when investing in and using research information management tools.
Y.S. Chi, Chairman of Elsevier Management Committee and Head of Global Academic & Customer Relations Elsevier, discusses the role of publishers, the future state of the publishing industry and important issues and trends affecting it.
Alicia Wise, Director of Universal Access at Elsevier, talks about Elsevier's vision on universal access, future business models and the company's current offering of open access options.
Lenny Rhines, who runs training workshops in developing world funded by the Elsevier Foundation, speaks about the initiative. The purpose is to train people in developing countries to be able to make the best use of resources available to them through Research4Life programs.
Article about the publication of the 1994 Group report 'Mapping Research Excellence: Exploring the Links Between Research Excellence and Research Funding Policy’, drawing on data from Elsevier's SciVal Spotlight, portraying researcher productivity in the UK in comparison to US, Australia, Germany, Japan and China.
Friso Veenstra, Director of Market Devolpment Oil and Gas at Elsevier, is interviewed about the collaboration between the Geological Society of London and Elsevier. The collaboration entails inclusion of the Society's renowned Lyel Collection in Geofacets, Elsevier's web-based database of georeferenced geological maps.
Article about the new 5-year agreement between Research Libraries UK (RLUK) and Elsevier, which provides member institutes of RLUK with full access to Elsevier's entire journal portfolio.
The Carbon War Room, founded by Sir Richard Branson of the Virgin Group, has teamed up with Elsevier to create RenewableJetFuels.org. The website, based on data from Elsevier's Bioduel TechSelect, provides airlines with information about biofuel technology in general and a more specific overview companies in the biofuel supply chain.
The Elsevier Foundation and the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) presented the Young Women Scientists from the Developing World Awards in Kuala Lumpur on September 29, 2011. Four of the eleven award winners speak of their individual experiences in their careers.
