Fact Sheet Helping life science companies overcome information management issues The four pillars of QUOSA Who QUOSA supports • Automated collection and deduplication of full-text QUOSA is designed to facilitate information literature and other documents management for life sciences teams, including: • Easy organization of documents in a centralized, • Medical and regulatory affairs teams needing to rapidly cloud-based repository respond to queries • Searching of external sources and the QUOSA library • Research and discovery teams working with a large, • Support for copyright compliant sharing of resources shared knowledge base with the right teams • Drug and device safety teams focused Consolidating and standardizing literature locations and tools helps life sciences companies with research efficiency, saves on costs and streamlines critical regulatory workflows. It also supports compliant literature storage and sharing. QUOSA is a complete online information management solution designed for life sciences companies. It centralizes the process of collecting and sharing scientific information to ensure efficient and compliant use of the knowledge base. What does QUOSA do? Who is QUOSA for? QUOSA consolidates your external and internal literature QUOSA is specifically developed for life sciences companies resources into a single, centralized, scalable online library. in consultation with industry information professionals. It provides all the tools needed for efficiently organizing, This customizable end-to-end solution can meet your most searching, sharing and annotating information. demanding scientific literature management needs without You can use QUOSA to search other sources, including changing your existing workflows. Embase®, Scopus® and PubMed®, and retrieve references from them. You can also set email alerts to let you know about new Why choose QUOSA? documents that are relevant to your searches in those databases. QUOSA is designed to be a closed enterprise environment, QUOSA ensures that all stakeholders can answer the three ideal for the confidential information needed by teams essential questions in literature management: engaged in critical tasks, including: • Where is the literature? • Post-market surveillance of drugs and medical devices • How is it organized? • Medical and regulatory affairs and MSL research to respond to queries • Do we have the right to store and share full-text articles?* • Management of internal and external documentation in a * Provided CCC RightFind is integrated with QUOSA large knowledge base How does QUOSA work? QUOSA consolidates abstracts and full-text content from multiple sources, de-duplicating it to create a single, organized and more easily accessible library. Sources Medical a airs and MSLs Quickly nd information to rapidly respond to medical information queries. Conference documents Automatically download Review and organize for key Give users easy access to abstracts and full text. workows and global access. data and documents. Research and discovery Online literature databases Use data to support decisions in R&D, preclinical trials and competitive intelligence. Internal libraries Drug and device safety Screen and triage the literature for adverse events. What are the benefits of QUOSA? What’s next for QUOSA? • Stay current: Use alerts to stay current on product, market QUOSA is developing from an information management and competitive developments. solution to serve the knowledge management requirements of • Consolidate sources: Store scientific literature in a secure, life sciences companies. Features in development include the scalable, central environment. possibility to perform semantic and federated searches, and support for finding patterns, trends and other insights within • Access information anywhere: Your QUOSA life science your library. library can be accessed from any browser. • Increase tool efficiency: Easily search accessible services, including Embase, ScienceDirect, PubMed and OvidSP. • Manage high volumes of content: QUOSA de-duplicates content, preventing wasteful multiple purchases. • Stay copyright compliant: Ensure that all sharing of content complies with copyright allowances. • Collaborate successfully: Project teams can have their own space in QUOSA to manage and annotate shared documents. • Cite and write: Medical writers can insert citations from their QUOSA library directly into Microsoft Word documents. For more information, visit elsevier.com/quosa. QUOSA is a trademark of Elsevier, Inc. Embase is a trademark of Elsevier Limited. Scopus and ScienceDirect are trademarks of Elsevier B.V. PubMed is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by the National Library of Medicine. Microsoft is a trademark of the Microsoft Corporation. Copyright © 2021, Elsevier. February 2021.