Elsevier Signs Agreement with Seven Virginia Universities; Deal Brings Scientific and Medical Information to the James Madison University Cooperative.Business Editors AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 13, 2004 Elsevier and the James Madison University “JMU” redirects here. For the university in Liverpool, England, see Liverpool John Moores University. For the public-policy college at Michigan State University, see . Cooperative (JMUC) announced today that they have signed a five-year agreement for the provision of vital scientific and medical information. The agreement provides the over 120,000-strong JMUC community -- composed of university undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, faculty and staff - with complete access to full-text articles from over 1,800 journals going back to 1995, covering authoritative titles from the core scientific and medical literature including high impact factor titles such as The Lancet and Tetrahedron tetrahedron: see polyhedron. . Furthermore, Elsevier has provided JMUC with price protection for the period of the contract. The JMUC consortium is composed of the University of Virginia, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, James Madison University, College of William and Mary Noun 1. William and Mary - joint monarchs of England; William III and Mary II , Old Dominion University “ODU” redirects here. For other uses, see ODU (disambiguation). The university was recently named one of the best colleges in the Southeast by The Princeton Review. , Virginia Commonwealth University Formed by a merger between the Richmond Professional Institute and the Medical College of Virginia in 1968, VCU has a medical school that is home to the nation's oldest organ transplant program. and George Mason University Named after American revolutionary, patriot and founding father George Mason, the university was founded as a branch of the University of Virginia in 1957 and became an independent institution in 1972. . The agreement provides the JMUC user community with access to approximately 6 million full-text articles on ScienceDirect. Furthermore, the agreement contains the standard Elsevier "walk-up" provision, which permits all Virginia citizens coming to libraries for scientific and medical information, free access to content covered under the agreement. "We are extremely pleased with the outcome of the negotiations, and particularly the noteworthy professionalism with which they were conducted and organized by Madelyn Wessel (UVA), Iris Moubray (JMU), Eileen Hitchingham (VA Tech) and Sharon Gasser Gas·ser , Herbert Spencer 1888-1963. American physiologist. He shared a 1944 Nobel Prize for research on the functions of nerve fibers. (JMU). We are proud to support the JMUC libraries in their goal of becoming research powerhouses and providing the best research materials available to their communities," said Frank Vrancken Peeters, Elsevier's Managing Director for Sales, Science & Technology, Elsevier. "This is a great example of success on both sides of an agreement. We have the content we need at a price we find acceptable, within a timeframe that is useful. At the same time the publisher maintains an ongoing relationship with a major group of public academic libraries in Virginia. Of course, the biggest winners are our users. They won't have to do without these very important materials," said Eileen Hitchingham, Dean of Libraries at Virginia Tech. Hitchingham further noted that for Virginia Tech this agreement provides access to a broader range of biomedical publications than was available for VT users just a few years ago and that she considered access to journals of this kind to be very important for supporting emerging university initiatives. 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. 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