National agreement result of intensive cooperation on defining research community needs

The Ministry of Higher Education & Research of Algeria has chosen Elsevier, the world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, as its main provider of services to help the nation achieve research excellence. The ministry signed multi-year agreements for access to SciVerse ScienceDirect, SciVerse Scopus, Reaxys® and intermediate backfiles.Algeria aims to play a leading role in fields of research in which the country already performs strongly: chemistry, chemical engineering, material sciences and pharmacology. These multi-year agreements with Elsevier will support this journey. The agreements involve providing access to full text articles on SciVerse ScienceDirect and to intermediate back files for more than 50 universities and research institutes, and access to SciVerse Scopus, the world's largest abstract and citation database for six of the biggest Algerian universities. To support its ambitions in the field of chemistry, the ministry chose to work with Reaxys, the web-based chemistry workflow solution which supports research and fuels discovery.Professor Hafid Aourag, Director General of Scientific Research of the Ministry of Higher Education, said, “Elsevier has provided us with an extremely valuable source of full text articles, abstracts and citation data, as well as innovative solutions to support Algeria's strategic research objectives. We are confident that these sources and solutions will help us enhance our country's research performance.”Said Taha, Regional Director MEA, Turkey and Central Asia at Elsevier, said, “It has been a pleasure to work together with the ministry over the past months, defining the true needs within the scientific community of Algeria. We are proud to be playing an important role in the research ambitions of an entire nation.”Source: PRNewswire