Elsevier’s ‘Referex’ Engineering E-Books Database Adds 300 New Titles

New York, N.Y. – Engineering Village, an Elsevier online search platform that houses a comprehensive variety of databases designed for engineers, announced today the addition of over 300 new titles from both Elsevier imprints and William Andrew Publishers to its Referex engineering-focused e-books database.

Referex is a full-text professional e-reference database on the Engineering Village platform comprised of 1,900 top engineering titles across 6 engineering subject disciplines. The addition of William Andrew Publishers titles represents the first time Referex is featuring content from a third-party publisher. Strong in the core engineering disciplines, William Andrew Publishers books were chosen to enhance the data-rich reference handbooks in demand by Referex users.

“The addition of William Andrew Publishers content, coupled with the new 2008 Elsevier titles give Referex greater comprehensiveness in the core engineering disciplines, while maintaining our high standard of editorial integrity,” said Colby Ellis, CEO of Elsevier’s Engineering Information business unit. “By expanding to include third party content, Referex will continue to deliver excellent value to Engineering Village users by being the single source to the most authoritative and complete engineering information.”

Elsevier professional reference titles in Referex are drawn from its Science and Technology books publishing program featuring leading imprints including Pergamon, Newnes, Butterworth Heinemann, Morgan Kaufmann, and Syngress.

Engineering Village, is a product of Elsevier’s Engineering Information business unit, a leader in providing online information, knowledge and support to engineering researchers. The business provides information research tools specifically focused on the content and intelligence that engineering researchers need to stay informed and step ahead of the competition. For more information about Engineering Information and its products, including Engineering Village™, Compendex®, and Ei EnCompass™ please visit www.ei.org.

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 7,000 employees in over 70 offices worldwide publish more than 2,000 journals and 2,200 new books per year, in addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products, such as ScienceDirect, MD Consult, Scopus, bibliographic databases, and online reference works.

Elsevier is a global business headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and has offices worldwide. Elsevier is part of Reed Elsevier Group plc, 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. Reed Elsevier’s ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).