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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

What's New?

Elsevier is committed to continuously improving our products and services. Here is the latest information on all of our products and 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
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illumin8 is a NEW productivity tool enabling your innovation professionals to rapidly find answers to their R&D challenges.. 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!

UPCOMING: The next version of i8 (coming this fall) will allow you to share and save results within the illumin8 interface itself, making illumin8 an even more valuable tool for collaboration.

Top Tip: Use the search parameters feature (magnifying glass next to the search bar) to exclude certain terms from your results or to specifically search a particular content type.

Illumin8 info site: http://www.illumin8.com


In addition to the 2,500 peer-reviewed journals online, ScienceDirect now hosts over 10,500 prestigious Elsevier books. Electronic 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: http://www.info.sciencedirect.com/


Scopus, , the world's largest abstract and citation database, now covers 18000+ literature source titles, 433+ million science specific web items, and 5 different patent offices. The most recent changes to Scopus include:

• Inclusion of over 3.5 million conference records

Top Tip: The Web and Patent tabs add a great deal of value to your experience with Scopus. You may find additional terms which may expand your search strategy, thesis sites and scientist homepages for potential collaboration, and the newest patents within a particular technology. The Web and Patent tabs can be managed, refined and exported just like the literature (Scopus) tab.

Scopus info site: http://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.

UPCOMING! Coming this fall, the Referex eBook collection will include 200 new titles.

Top Tip: Check out the redesigned EngineeringVillage site.


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's recent release has introduced significant improvements to both content and search options. Enhancements include:

• Ability to export into RefWorks
• Auto-complete feature linked to the Emtree indexing
• Preview of Abstract and Index terms
• Addition of MEDLINE years 1950-1965
• Tagging EMBASE and MEDLINE unique records
• The proximity operators NEAR and NEXT can be used with parentheses, truncation and field limits
• Advanced Search now includes a Field Limit option, replacing the Field Search Form
• Clinical Trial Numbers now listed in the additional information section of the Record View
• Image Based Linking is now available
• The Records Page highlights terms retrieved from explosion searches (in green) in the index term field

Top Tip: Think PubMed is enough? You're missing about 2000 international biomedical journals which are not indexed in PubMed but are indexed in Embase.com.

Embase.com info site: http://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.

Top Tip: The FDA Classic Collection to PharmaPendium gives companies the advantage of being able to gain a unique perspective into the past by benefitting from information not been available for close to 50 years!

PharmaPendium info site: www.info.pharmapendium.com


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.

UPCOMING! Coming this fall:

• Performance improvements
• Customer administration including the ability to manage user base and links/settings
• Customized Reaxys messaging and icons
• More integration of Scopus citation information

Reaxys info site: http://www.info.reaxys.com/

Reaxys has recently enhanced the filtering capability.
For selected Filters, you can now choose to filter by Value, such as MW=250-400, as well as the previous method of checking boxes representing selected ranges or values of the property.

A second enhancement concerns the "More" link feature once a filter is opened. For example, if you select the Bioactivity filter then click the "More" link below the list of checkboxes, you will be presented with a new window that allows the user to enter values for the Pharmacological Effect field or Type or any other field in that section of the data structure. This provides data searching in a dynamic way, rather than using the Form-based or Advanced Search capabilities when posing the original query. This is a much more natural way to use the extensive amount of data in Reaxys in a workflow that returns to the user exactly the compounds they want with exactly the data they want.

A third enhancement is the inclusion of a "Hit Data" link at the top of the list of links displaying what data is available for a compound. This is added after a filter has been applied. Selection of this link will lead you to only the data that met your specific filter criteria. For example, filtering on the Pharmacological Effect is "antiviral" will provide the "Hit Data" link showing only the specific Bioactivity data that specified the Effect as antiviral. This might be a small subset in a vast amount of Pharmacological data for that compound, and can save considerable time and effort finding exactly the data you requested.

Find more information on this as well as other recent enhancements to Reaxys at http://info.reaxys.com/ or use the "About Reaxys" link at the bottom of the Reaxys login page.