Online Training Courses!

In addition to the customized training which is always available to you through your ADM, you and your end-users can also sign up for regularly scheduled online product training.

Click here to register for an open online course on one of the following products:

Engineering Village
PharmaPendium
Embase.com
Scopus
ScienceDirect
Reaxys

Elsevier is committed to continuously improving its products and services. Here are the most recent product enhancements plus a top search tip to help you and your end-users make the most of these valuable resources! If you'd like to set up a training or demonstration to see a product mentioned below, please contact your ADM. Or, to learn more about any of these products or to request a trial, please visit:
www.elsevierforindustry.com


illumin8 is a NEW research tool designed to extract solutions in the form of products, organizations, approaches, and experts. With countless hours spent on research according to recent studies, illumin8 has the potential to save your organization valuable time and provide end-users with ideas, inspiration and solutions to problems. Innovate with illumin8!

NEW: You can now:

• Search by specific content source
• View search history
• View more prominent display of related terms
• Automatically save related terms that you've selected
• Save filter settings and personalized sorting preferences

Top Tip: There are many times that it makes sense to use illumin8. Key times include: to find a solution to a problem, to scan a technology landscape or product category, and to find a solution that provides a benefit.

Illumin8 info site: www.illumin8.com


ScienceDirect is the electronic platform to search the full text of all Elsevier's electronic books and journals.
Thousands of ScienceDirect's full-text book content is now available online. ScienceDirect books can be a huge asset to your full-text resources

NEW: The Encyclopedia of Microbiology and the Comprehensive Chemometrics have recently been launched on ScienceDirect.

Top Tip: The Top 25 feature on ScienceDirect allows you to view the top read (downloaded) Elsevier articles at a glance.

SD info site: www.info.sciencedirect.com


Scopus, the worlds largest abstract and citation database, covers 16000+ literature source titles, 433+ million science specific web items, and 5 different patent offices. The most recent changes to Scopus include:

• Addition of Cambridge University Press AiPs (Articles in Press)
• Ability to search CAS Registry Numbers on the Basic search tab .

Top Tip: Scopus is increasingly being used for competitive and corporate intelligence. Search for a company in 3 ways:

1. In the Affiliation field (Elsevier = Affiliation) to find literature and patents BY an organization.
2. In the Title/Abstract/Keyword field (Elsevier = Title/Abstract/Keyword) to find literature, web, and patent information ABOUT an organization.
3. In the Affiliation search tab to find a company profile.

Scopus info site: www.info.scopus.com

The award-winning Engineering Village platform contains many useful features to refine, analyze, "tag", manage, and track research - bringing you the most relevant results as quickly as possible. There are great training and support resources online - click here to learn more.

Top Tip: The power behind a subject specific database is the indexing. Be sure to check out the Thesaurus tab for Compendex and/or Inspec.

EngineeringVillage info site: www.ei.org


EMBASE.com is a unique platform, bringing you more than 18 million validated biomedical and pharmacological records from the EMBASE and MEDLINE databases.

NEW! Embase.com is about to move onto a new platform! This is the first phase to many new and exciting changes coming to Embase.com. Improvements you'll see in May include:

• EMTREE terms will automatically appear as you type in the Quick Search bar
• Better view of abstracts and index terms in the results

Top Tip: Want to track the side effects of a drug? Use this resource (PPT file) to help you get started.

Embase.com info site: www.info.embase.com


PharmaPendium is the essential drug safety resource, providing you the ability to search the full-text of FDA approval packages.

PharmaPendium backfiles now available. Own the complete library of all FDA Approval documents all indexed and made searchable for the first time in history. Efficacy, Safety and Drug Delivery data dating back 50 years, available for the first time in a format designed for new discoveries. Also, the NEW April release included:

• Redesigned homepage: www.pharmapendium.com
• Performance enhancements
• Chemistry Conversion to CHIME to SMILES
• New export functions, including .xls and .csv

Top Tip: PharmaPendium is an investment that can ultimately save your organization a great deal of money by:

• Reducing the risk of repeating costly regulatory cycles by using historic FDA approval documents to identify and avoid the submission mistakes made by competitors
• Reducing drug development cost by learning from approved drugs and identifying safety risks earlier

PharmaPendium info site: www.info.pharmapendium.com


Released in January 2009, Reaxys is a brand-new workflow tool for chemists, brought to you by the team behind the CrossFire databases, designed to support the optimization of synthetic processes.

NEW features include:

• Improved results sorting: new sorting criteria is now available for substance and reaction search results
• Markush Viewer: Reaxys now contains Markush structures allowing a table to display its details.
• Zoom function: this allows a user to enlarge structures which are too small in the normal display

Reaxys info site: www.info.reaxys.com

Have you tried out 2collab?
2collab (www.2collab.com) is a FREE collaboration platform designed specifically for researchers. 2collab enables:

• Online bookmarking and reference management
• Groups - for sharing resources and holding discussions with existing networks or creating new ones
• Peer networking - find and initiate contact with new research partners

Look for a link to 2collab in Elsevier products, such as Scopus, ScienceDirect and Engineering Village.

Brain Navigator
Elsevier has developed an online workflow solution that delivers accurate data and tools to improve productivity and the quality of neuroscience research. Under the editorship of leading brain cartographers, George Paxinos and Charles Watson, BrainNavigator's 3D technology helps locate brain structures to enhance visualization and understanding of the brain. Click here to learn more, www.brainnav.com/info.