Dear Sir Can you please post this on your NCSI LIS-FORUM Digest Thank you During a a gala evening co-hosted by Online Information and Information World Review in London, SCOPUS won the International Information Industry Award 2005 for Best STM information product. Development Partners David Price (Oxford University) and Hilda Nassar (American University of Beirut) and representatives from Elsevier received this award. For the fifth year, The Charleston Advisor is sponsoring a series of awards for electronic services and databases for libraries. We are pleased to report that SCOPUS received the "BEST INTERFACE" award for a well-designed and powerful search interface. About SCOPUS Covering the world's research literature, Scopus is the largest and easiest to use navigation tool ever built. Scopus is designed and developed with over 300 users and librarians internationally. Its unique database contains abstracts and references from over 14,000 titles from 4,000 different publishers, ensuring broad interdisciplinary coverage. In addition, Scopus not only offers users citation information about the articles covered, but also integrates web & patent searches directly from its clean and simple interface. Direct links to full-text articles, library resources and other applications like reference management software, make Scopus quicker, easier and more comprehensive to use than any other literature research tool. More than 40 institutions in Indian Subcontinent have subscribed to SCOPUS since its launch in Jan 2005. For more information about Scopus please visit www.info.scopus.com. Perdeep Kumar Sales Director Elsevier India (Science & Technology) 17A/1, Ring Road Lajpat Nagar IV New Delhi - 110 024 Phone : +91-11-5289 0203 (direct) Email : p.kumar@elsevier.com Elsevier : www.elsevier.com ScienceDirect: www.sciencedirect.com Scopus : www.scopus.com