Elsevier Signs Agreement with Academic Institutions in Alabama; Deal Will Also Bring Scientific and Medical Information to 200 Primary Care Physicians.Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 2004 Elsevier and the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries (NAAL NAAL National Assessment of Adult Literacy NAAL North American Academy of Liturgy ) announced today that they have signed an agreement for the provision of vital scientific and medical information during the period of 2004-2008. NAAL is a consortium of academic institutions in Alabama. The agreement provides all university undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, faculty and staff at the subscribing institutions with the entire Elsevier catalogue of 1,800 scientific and medical journals going back to 1995, covering authoritative titles from the core scientific and medical literature including high impact factor titles such as The Lancet, Tetrahedron tetrahedron: see polyhedron. , Journal of the American College of Cardiology The American College of Cardiology (ACC) is a nonprofit medical association established in 1949 to educate, research and influence health care public policy. The president for the 2006–2007 year is Steven E. Nissen. [1] The organization has 39 chapters in the U.S. and the European Heart Journal. The agreement, successfully negotiated by the team of Lou Pitschmann, Jerry Stephens, Sherida Downer and Scott Plutchak provides the NAAL user community with access to approximately 6 million full-text articles on ScienceDirect(R). Furthermore, the agreement permits all Alabama citizens coming to libraries for scientific and medical information, free access to content covered under the agreement. The agreement also includes a clause, which allows the University of Alabama at Birmingham UAB began in 1936 as the Birmingham Extension Center of the University of Alabama. Because of the rapid growth of the Birmingham area, it was decided that an extension program for students who had difficulties which prevented them from studying in Tuscaloosa was needed. to grant access to 200 Alabama primary care physicians caring for patients in rural areas. This ground-breaking research project, MI-PLUS, will provide these physicians with 24/7 access to the full content of information giving them the most current medical information even in the remotest parts of the State. Scott Plutchak, Director of Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences, University of Alabama-Birmingham is spearheading this initiative, and said: "Through this partnership with Elsevier, we'll be introducing many of Alabama's primary care physicians to a level of access that academics are now able to take for granted. We face many challenges in making sure that primary care physicians have access to the most up-to-date clinical information, and this project is a significant step towards developing ways to meet those challenges." "We are extremely pleased with the outcome of the negotiations, and particularly the noteworthy professionalism with which they were conducted and organized by the NAAL representatives. Furthermore, we are very proud to be associated with the research project with Alabama physicians in rural areas which Scott Plutchak is so admirably passionate about," said Frank Vrancken Peeters, Elsevier's Managing Director for Sales, Science & Technology. "In today's financial environment, Alabama's academic institutions must find ways to leverage their expenditures for libraries and information resources. Our partnership with Elsevier for ScienceDirect will achieve greater value for dollars spent by Alabama's research-level institutions for their libraries. Most important for NAAL's mission to support academic instruction and research across the state, ScienceDirect offers greater access to scientific, technical and medical information for students, faculty and researchers in all of NAAL's member institutions," said Sue Medina, Director, Network of Alabama Academic Libraries. About Elsevier Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. Working in partnership with the global science and health communities, Elsevier's 6,800 employees in 86 offices worldwide publish more than 1,800 journals and 2,200 new books per year, in addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products, such as ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com/), MD Consult (http://www.mdconsult.com/), Scopus (http://www.news.scopus.com/), bibliographic databases, online reference works and subject specific portals. Elsevier (http://www.elsevier.com/) is a global company headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and has offices worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group plc (http://www.reedelsevier.com/), a world-leading publisher and information provider. Operating in the science and medical, legal, education and business-to-business sectors, Reed Elsevier provides high-quality and flexible information solutions to users, with increasing emphasis on the Internet as a means of delivery. Reed Elsevier's ticker symbols are REN ren or jen In Confucianism, the most basic of all virtues, variously translated as “humaneness” or “benevolence.” It originally denoted the kindness of rulers to subjects. (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange London Stock Exchange London marketplace for securities. It was formed in 1773 by a group of stockbrokers who had been doing business informally in local coffeehouses. ), RUK RUK Reserviupseerikoulu (Hamina, Finland, Reserve Officers' School) RUK Are You Kidding? and ENL (New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. ). About NAAL The NAAL consortium, headquartered in Montgomery, AL, is composed of 23 academic institutions in Alabama. The subscribing institutions for this agreement are: -- Alabama A&M University -- Auburn University -- Auburn University - Montgomery -- Jacksonville State University Jacksonville State University is a public university serving Northeast Alabama on a 459 acre (0 km) campus with 58 buildings in Jacksonville, Alabama which is in the Appalachian foothills of northeast Alabama. -- Tuskegee University -- University of Alabama The University of Alabama (also known as Alabama, UA or colloquially as 'Bama) is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. Founded in 1831, UA is the flagship campus of the University of Alabama System. - Birmingham -- University of Alabama - Huntsville -- University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa -- University of North Alabama UNA in nonfiction Baker roots Former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker, III, stumbled upon a major family discovery sparked by a visit to Florence, where he delivered the 2002 annual commencement address at the University of North Alabama - a discovery he discusses -- University of South Alabama The University of South Alabama is a public, doctoral-level university in Mobile, Alabama, USA. It was created by the Alabama Legislature in 1963, and replaced existing extension programs operated in Mobile by the University of Alabama. About MI-PLUS MI-Plus, is a 5-year study funded by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI NHLBI, n.pr See National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. ) entitled "Trials assessing innovative strategies to improve clinical guidelines in heart, lung and blood diseases." The study will test a web-based intervention and performance measurement system aimed at improving adherence to a set of clinical practice guidelines clinical practice guidelines Clinical policies, practice guidelines, practice parameters, practice policies Medtalk Systematically developed statements to assist practitioner and Pt decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances. See Psychology. amenable to the primary care physician's practice and targeted at patients recently discharged from hospital with a diagnosis of myocardial infarction (MI). |
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