DES PLAINES, ILLINOIS, USA Nov. 3, 2000: Endeavor Information Systems announced today free full access to ScienceDirect Web editions for Voyager customers, available starting Monday, Nov. 6. Announced in July at the ALA Annual Conference , Endeavor's free offering of access to the full text articles of 1200 Elsevier electronic journals in the sciences, technology and medicine enables customers to offer integrated access through their Voyager systems. Endeavor's offering of Web editions is the first joint project with Elsevier Science since its April merger with the publisher.
Linking to ScienceDirect Web editions is one more step in Endeavor's "content over Voyager," a strategic initiative to provide access to all types of data, including electronic journal content, through the local library system. Furthering Endeavor's pledge to provide access to information regardless of location or format, this project marks the first time Elsevier Science content will be available through a library OPAC interface.
Journal and article level access to ScienceDirect Web editions gives Voyager customers access to abstracts and citations for all articles in Elsevier journals at no cost. Voyager libraries can "click through" to electronic full text of articles for one rolling year of the library's subscribed Elsevier journals.
Libraries with the license for Endeavor's Citation Server module also have an automatic check of the local library holdings for the journal. Even if the library does not have Citation Server, it will have access to the citations and abstracts as a no cost reference database, as well as direct access to the full text electronic content for their journals . The Endeavor-housed citation database is updated weekly to include the most recent articles available from ScienceDirect.
"Libraries are addressing the idea of full content and asking how they can coordinate the delivery of this information," explained Verne Coppi, Endeavor's Vice President of Development. "End users want organized, easy, consistent access to reference information --- the Web based Voyager system delivers the information to the end user in a familiar format. For academic and research libraries, this is smart packaging of Elsevier's essential content with the familiar Endeavor technology and expertise to provide access on an ongoing basis."
"Our customers continually ask for two things: more convergence of systems and offerings, and a single point of access to all kinds of content," explained Jane Burke, Endeavor's President and CEO. "With Web editions available to all Endeavor customers, both patrons and staff are empowered with easy, organized access to information. The real benefit is this huge variety of information is all available to the user through the single access point of the Voyager user interface."
To obtain information on how to access Web editions through Voyager, Endeavor customers should use this simple click through license agreement www.endinfosys.com/prods/webed.htm.
About ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect is the world's most comprehensive full-text scientific database, providing researchers and librarians in academia and corporations with electronic access to nearly 1,200 scientific, technical and medical journals. At its core, ScienceDirect content includes 1,100 journals from Elsevier Science as well as other STM publishers and an expanding suite of secondary databases including: Elsevier BIOBASE, EMBASE, FLUIDEX, Geobase, OceanBase, World Textiles, Ei's Compendex, Beilstein Abstracts, BIOTECHNOBASE, BIOSIS Previews, and INSPEC.
ScienceDirect is a unit of Elsevier Science (http://www.elsevier.com) and part of the Reed Elsevier plc group, a leading provider of information to the STM, legal and business communities. Visit http://www.sciencedirect.com for more information about ScienceDirect.
About Endeavor
Endeavor Information Systems, based in Des Plaines, IL, was founded in September of 1994. Over 775 academic and research libraries of every size have chosen Endeavor's high performance library system. Endeavor offers a complete line of library solutions for traditional and digital collections. Visit Endeavor at www.endinfosys.com for more information