highlights Issue: Second quarter 2003 ELSEVIER today

Amsterdam, Oxford, Holborn, Camden, Edinburgh, Journals top citation list Shannon and Excerpta Medica in Almere. According to ISI‟s Essential Science Indicators for The FSSC Europe started processing invoices in January 2003, four Elsevier journals have topped January 2001 and reached 100,000 invoices for the the list of most cited journals in their respective UK offices in 2002. (337) fields. The journals are: Molecular Therapy, Current Publishers and librarians go hand-in- Opinion in Microbiology, Astroparticle Physics and hand Computer Networks. They are published through Using new technology, Elsevier is creating building the Fundamental Life Sciences, the Current Trends blocks for the library of the future. group, Physics & Astronomy and Mathematics and Computer Science. That was the message Arie Jongejan, CEO Science Astroparticle Physics was launched in 1992 and &Technology (S&T), gave at the Invitation now benefits from being the main journal in the Symposium „The Library of the Future, the next 10 rapidly growing scientific area where particle years‟ at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. physicists and astrophysicists meet. … As the only publisher present at last month‟s Computer Networks covers fundamental research as meeting, Arie stressed that the role of publishers well as more application-oriented developments in and librarians go „hand-in-hand‟ and that their task hot areas such as mobile telephony and the Internet. is to effectively and efficiently disclose literature, … and enhance the role of that literature in scientists‟ Current Opinion in Microbiology is a relatively research processes. new title. Part of its recent rise in popularity could Arie gave examples of how the company is creating be attributed to the topical nature of the subject building blocks based on clever applications of new matter it covers… technology for the library of the future, adding Molecular Therapy is the monthly publication of value to plain content. He also stressed that in a the American Society of Gene Therapy (ASGT) future world, both librarians and publishers have to and is international in scope. …(335) be aware that new evaluation criteria are necessary to measure their contributions. (338) Adonic adieu to document delivery service Creating referees of the future The ADONIS document delivery service that The demands of research, proposal writing and covered 800 journals from 80 publishers in the teaching put an increasing strain on today‟s journal biomedical, chemical and pharmaceutical editor. Identifying and retaining willing, disciplines has ceased to exist. knowledgeable and efficient referees – a pre- Founded in the mid 1980‟s by Elsevier with requisite for any journal‟s success – is a universal Springer, Blackwell and Pergamon as shareholders, problem. ADONIS was set up to protect copyright and to test Biomaterials is one of the flagship titles in the viability of printing articles from a CD-ROM Materials Science and Engineering. Submissions to archive to satisfy document delivery requests. this journal have increased by 300 percent in the As Elsevier‟s first electronic initiative, it went last three years, putting an ever-increasing pressure commercial in 1991 and Elsevier has solely owned on the existing pool of referees. ADONIS since 1997. Most former ADONIS During the 17th European Biomaterials Conference, customers now subscribe to ScienceDirect. … Biomaterials‟ Editor-in-Chief … launched the ADONIS went out of service at the end of last year „Young Scientist Referee Programme‟ as part of the due to outdated technology. Former publishers Second Forum for Young Scientists. Its aim is to continue to receive royalties. (336) mentor young postgraduate/postdoctoral scientists, and provide them with the support and guidance to become an effective referee. (338) Landmark invoice for FSSC The Financial Shared Service Centre (FSSC) Reed Elsevier Group Strategy Review Europe has just received its 100,000th invoice for 2003 Elsevier offices in the Netherlands. The result of last year‟s Employee Opinion Survey showed that fewer than 60 percent of the The FSSC Europe processes supplier invoices and respondents said that they had a clear understanding provides financial reporting for Elsevier in of the overall direction of the company and only 43

Second quarter 2003 Page 1 of 5 percent said that they understood Reed Elsevier Designed for marketing and communication staff Business Strategy and goals. throughout the company, this module contains Anxious to address this issue, Reed Elsevier Chief information on how to write and distribute press Executive Crispin Davies and Global Strategy releases. … (340) Director Nick Baker discuss the group‟s key objectives and the key strategic priorities in a video Reed Elsevier to sponsor Amsterdam interview. They also discuss how each different concert series business and individual employee can contribute to Reed Elsevier is sponsoring the British Season of the delivery and success of this strategy. (338) Amsterdam's Concertgebouw (philharmonic hall). This festival of British music will focus on British Kofi Annan praises HINARI project composers, soloists, ensembles and orchestras For the first time, surgeons in Quito, Ecuador can during the Concertgebouw's 2003-2004 season, and access the same vital research information as opens on 20 September 2003. surgeons in New York, without having to worry about costs. Highlights include the opening weekend with selections from London's Last Night of the Proms HINARI (the Health InterNetwork Access to and The Royal Opera, Covent Garden performing Research Initiative), a project that began as an Mozart's Don Giovanni. The London Symphony agreement between the World Health Organisation will be performing during the series, as will several (WHO) and five leading publishers – Blackwell, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) orchestras. Elsevier (including Harcourt), Springer Verlag, Benjamin Britten's suites for cello solo will be John Wiley and Wolters Kluwer – to provide presented, as well as British singing tradition with, developing countries with free access to journals, among others, Michael Chance, Felicity Lott and has recently entered phase two. … Ian Bostridge. Several British Folk Music concerts will also be given. “HINARI is using information technology to Reed Elsevier employees in the Netherlands will be narrow the information gap in health science…The able to order discounted tickets for a selection of result is a real breakthrough in access to scientific concerts within the next few weeks. … (340) knowledge,” says Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General, who has praised the programme as a New project accelerates innovation leading example of successful private–public The market leadership and excellent profit growth partnership. (339) achieved by Reed Elsevier over the last three years are to be continued and strengthened with the Vote Scirus today launch of Project Booster, which aims to Scirus has been nominated for best science website encourage, harness and nurture innovative thinking for the seventh annual Webby Awards, the top and development. international honour for websites. Scirus is eligible to win a People‟s Voice Award. Crispin Davis, Chief Executive, Reed Elsevier and … Derk Haank, Chairman, Elsevier will lead the project, supported by Peter van Hooff, Director, “The Webby Awards honour the outstanding Strategy and John Regazzi, Managing Director, websites that are setting the standards for the Market Development. Strategos, a consultancy firm Internet,” …“Scirus‟ Webby Award nomination is a recognised for ground-breaking ideas about testament to its great contributions to this strategic innovation will support the project with increasingly powerful medium.” tools, methods and expertise. “Scirus‟ Webby nomination really shows how far Scirus has come since its launch in April 2001, and The project runs until the end of 2003, by which how much the service is appreciated by all those time Elsevier and Reed Elsevier will have a looking for STM information on the web.” … (339) pipeline of growth-generating projects and an innovation process in place…. (341)

Corporate Relations launches Media Elsevier sets policy on article Tool Kit withdrawal “We need a press release!” they say. “No An important principle of scholarly communication problem,” you reply. But truth be told there is a is that the Editor is solely and independently problem: you‟ve never written a press release responsible for deciding which of the articles before. The Corporate Relations Department has submitted to a journal shall be published, and once good news for you. The first module of the Media published, that the archive should remain a Tool Kit – How to Write a Press Release – is now permanent, historical record…. available on Nonsolus. Article retraction or removal can only occur under exceptional circumstances. Retraction can occur when there are infringements of professional ethical

Second quarter 2003 Page 2 of 5 codes, such as multiple submission, plagiarism or to home. At Elsevier, we are privy to new fraudulent use of data. Removal can occur when discoveries. there are legal limitations upon the publisher, copyright holder or author(s), or following the The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe identification of false or inaccurate data that, if (WMAP), a subject covered in Elsevier‟s New acted upon, would be harmful to life. Astronomy, may be providing one of the most important scientific results in recent years. WMAP The policy has been designed to maintain trust has made the first detailed full-sky map of the amongst researchers and librarians in the integrity oldest light in the universe, which emerged 380,000 of our electronic archive and to take into account years after the Big Bang. the current best practice in the scholarly and library communities. WMAP has revealed, in great detail, tiny temperature variations (anisotropies) in the Cosmic As standards evolve and change Elsevier will Microwave Background (CMB) that are over 13- revisit this issue and welcomes input from the billion years old. Patterns imprinted on this light scholarly and library communities. These issues reflect the conditions set in motion, a tiny fraction require international standards and Elsevier will be of a second after the Big Bang. These correspond to active in lobbying the information bodies to the seeds that grew to become galaxies. Encoded in establish international standards and best practices the patterns are the answers to many age-old which the publishing and information industries can questions, such as the age, composition and adopt. (341) geometry of the Universe. (343)

Building a Global Brand Elsevier reprinting scheme helps curb The Elsevier Librarian Advertising Campaign book piracy „Never underestimate the importance of a librarian‟ Elsevier is involved in a reprinting programme to has been extended globally due to initial success. make STM books more affordable as part of a continuing battle against book piracy, which has The Elsevier brand initiative comprises two distinct become a major business for organised crime advertising campaigns designed to increase the syndicates in the Indian Subcontinent. visibility and positive brand recognition of Elsevier worldwide. The first, launched in January 2003, The Indian Subcontinent, with booming scientific reinforces the idea of Elsevier as the librarian‟s and IT research communities and nearly 500,000 valuable partner. The second campaign, currently doctors, has significant potential for Elsevier book under development, targets end users and will run sales. Because people living in this region often following the rollout of corporate branding on cannot afford to buy books at full-price, there is an products. opening for piracy. A reprint programme, started in 1997 by Harcourt, provided the market with The librarian campaign aims to improve Elsevier‟s legitimate books at affordable prices and allowed image in the science and technology market and publishers to compete with the pirates. It has since build awareness of Elsevier as the premier STM been implemented in Pakistan. However, as there is publisher in health sciences. The campaign is big money to be made in piracy (in July 2001, running in over 20 librarian trade publications, 13 police in New Delhi seized 25,000 pirated books Elsevier library and information science journals, worth around $240,000) the hard-core pirates still and in library conference program guides. … remain. (342) During routine checks conducted in Islamabad and Derk Haank visits German cousins Rawalpindi in Pakistan this month, four shops were Derk Haank, Chairman, Elsevier, visited Germany found to be selling pirated books, among them were where he met employees to personally Elsevier titles including: Text Book of Medical welcome everyone to Elsevier, present the Physiology (177 copies), Clinical Neuroanatomy company‟s strategy, and hold a press conference (319 copies) and Embryology (298 copies). Last (all in German!).The 48-hour trip covered the four month, several arrests were made following raids in main company sites acquired from the von Karachi. Ironically, Business Ethics was one of the Holtzbrinck Group (Urban & Fischer, Spektrum titles found pirated. (344) Akademischer Verlag and SFG Servicecenter Fachverlage) earlier this year… (343) Global Exhibitions Elsevier exhibits at more than 1000 annual events, WMAP answers age-old questions such as major corporate, scientific, Health Sciences about the universe or cross-disciplinary exhibitions throughout the Ever looked up at the stars and wondered when and world. how it all began? Well, perhaps try looking closer

Second quarter 2003 Page 3 of 5 Many of these meetings, such as the annual includes Austria and Switzerland. Frankfurt Book Fair, are staffed meetings that Angelika explains, "In order to reach this ambitious require a great deal of coordination and planning to target, the position of Integration Manager was ensure a uniform corporate presence. created almost immediately after the acquisition, Marie-Rose Kamerbeek, an Elsevier veteran of and I came to Germany for this function. In this more than twenty years manages the Amsterdam manner, we wanted to ensure maximum continuity exhibitions team…. in the companies as well as lay the foundation for Exhibitions are an international all year round further growth."… (346) business and the perfect platform to present the new face of Elsevier. Building Insights. Breaking Farewell to Derk Haank and Martin Boundaries. (344) Mos Last week, Elsevier employees received Elsevier Cares open house in the news that Chief Executive Derk Haank Amsterdam As part of the global Elsevier Cares Programme, and Group Director Finance Martin Mos the Amsterdam office is holding an open house to resigned to join Springer. inform staff about the various ways they can support the community. …There are currently 12 We would like to take this opportunity to thank volunteers working on educational programmes at both Derk and Martin for their years of service to two schools in Amsterdam, and some of them will Elsevier. Both were a pleasure to work with and be available at the open house to talk about have helped leave behind a business that is not only contributing to the programme. At the moment, the strong and in good shape, but also growing. educational programmes are only available to Dutch speakers, but a programme for English Crispin Davis, Chief Executive, Reed Elsevier, will speakers will be available in September….(345) step in as acting Chief Executive for Elsevier. The Elsevier Board will report to Crispin as it did to Accelerating revenue growth through Derk, with no organisational change. (348) innovation… We will do our utmost to ensure that business Crispin (Davis) opened the (Senior Management continues as usual, and will keep you informed of Conference red.) conference by elaborating on the developments (347) major achievements of the last couple of years. “We have become a significantly higher quality company, with a clear strategy and a strong growth performance. However, given that the current economic weakness is deep-rooted and profit growth is often obtained by compensating revenue shortfalls by cost savings, the current growth equation will be difficult to maintain unless we highlight manage to increase our top line growth.” Increasing Elsevier today revenue is the key objective for Project Booster, - a compilation of Elsevier Today for members of which aims to create additional revenue between VGEO, especially for former employees of Elsevier - $200 and $ 400 million for Reed Elsevier in a three- Editorial: [email protected] year period…. (346) Distribution: [email protected]

Crispin Davis appointed to Second quarter 2003, covers issues 335 – 349 GlaxoSmithKline board

Crispin Davis, chief executive officer of Reed

Elsevier, has been appointed a non-executive director on the board of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies. (346)

Interview with Angelika Lex (Managing Director Elsevier Germany red.) Angelika began her career with Elsevier in Amsterdam in 1987 in biomedicine publishing. Since then, she has held various change management positions within Elsevier, and has been in Germany since the beginning of the year.Over the next five years, Elsevier is aiming to become a leader in the German STM market, which

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