Elsevier and the Library of Alexandria Sign a Three Year Agreement to Provide Access to ScienceDirect and Scopus to 150 Researchers in Low-income Countries

Elsevier and the Library of AlexandriaElsevier and the Library of Alexandria Sign a Three Year Agreement to Provide Access to ScienceDirect and Scopus to 150 Researchers in Low-income Countries PR Newswire AMSTERDAM, December 3, 2013 Elsevier-Library of Alexandria Memorandum of Understanding drives research usage and access with virtual knowledge community in developing countries Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, and the Library of Alexandria (BA) announced today that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to provide 150 researchers working in least-developed and low- income countries across the globe with access to ScienceDirect, Elsevier's online scientific research platform with 11 million full text articles and Scopus, an abstract and citation database containing 21,000 peer- reviewed journals from 5,000 publishers. The new agreement will provide courtesy access for a period of three years. As an integral part of this initiative, the BA will also facilitate research capacity building, or the development of strong research skills through a closed Virtual Knowledge Community (VKC) to provide the scientists with regular support including: research best practices, information literacy and authorship skills training. "Science can help feed the hungry, heal the sick, protect the environment, bring dignity to work and create space for the joy of self-expression...