R&D Solutions
High quality technical intelligence and technology tools to help you shorten the distance between discovery and impact
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Elsevier R&D Solutions brings together high quality scientific and engineering intelligence and technology tools to help R&D professionals, engineers and researchers invent, innovate and commercialize ideas, products and processes.
The Industries We Serve
Pharma & Life Sciences
Make better drug discovery & development decisions, from target identification to postmarket surveillance.
Chemicals
Successfully develop, improve and commercialize compounds, while efficiently managing costs and achieving EHS goals.
Oil & Gas
Stay ahead of competition and at the forefront of technologies, while managing costs, regulations and safety risks.
Education & Research
Empower students, faculty and researchers to acquire essential skills and accomplish groundbreaking research.
What Our Customers Say
Pharma and Life Sciences: Reaxys Supports Application of Advanced Hit-to-Lead and Lead Optimization Methods
Reaxys makes computational work easier because the chemical and bioactivity data are normalized. We don’t have to perform the normalization ourselves. Dr. Fabio Tucci, cofounder and COO of Epigen Biosciences
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Chemicals: Knovel Helps Companies Achieve EHS Goals
83% of surveyed users in the Chemicals industry report that Knovel has had a positive impact on their ability to develop products and processes that meet EHS and regulatory demands or key customer criteria. 2015 TechValidate survey of 614 Knovel users from the Chemicals industry
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Industry Insights for R&D and Engineering Leaders
Regulation as a Driver of Innovation in China’s Chemical Industry
Chemical companies active in China face increasing regulation. While this may affect the competitiveness of individual companies or whole segments, it can also force companies to innovate. This whitepaper provides perspectives on how companies can prepare for future regulatory restrictions and utilize them as a driving force for innovation.
Webinars & Events
Hear from experts on industry hot topics or watch live demos of our R&D solutions.
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Webinar
Knovel Session: Vision & Roadmap Briefing
You are invited to join us as Ken Klapproth, VP of Engineering & Technology Solutions Marketing, presents key highlights of Knovel's 2016 vision and roadmap.
Join us on April 20, at 10:00 AM EST, where Ken will discuss Knovel's continued plans for 2016:
- Improve its material solutions and information essentials
- Mobilize content with the new tablet app
- Further enhance usage reporting and interactive tools
- Release various content and workflow integrations software
Event
World Drug Safety Congress Americas, April 20 -21, Chicago, Illinois
Visit our booth number 11 and join our talk given by Joyce de Langen, Elsevier Senior Solution Manager, on “Pharmacovigilance and the Role of Scientific Literature.”
R&D and Engineering Blogs
Read, comment and share insights and opinions on developments affecting the work of R&D professionals, engineers and researchers around the world.
Go Inside the Mind of a Chemist
Time is crucial to chemists. The faster they can find information, the more quickly they can innovate. Did you know that retrieving extracted data is faster than finding answers in full text literature?
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Risk Tolerance: How Low Do You Go?
When Justice Stevens wrote that opinion for the majority in the 1980 OSHA Benzene case, he went on to add that odds of fatality of one in a billion could not be considered significant but that for odds...
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Elsevier R&D Solutions for Your Industry
Embase
Embase increases the discovery of biomedical evidence to support critical life sciences functions, delivering relevant, up-to-date biomedical information to the global research community.
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Geofacets
Geofacets is a geoscience solution that enables efficient and thorough analysis of subsurface geology to empower confident natural resource exploration decisions and research.
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Knovel
Knovel helps the chemical industry tackle development and production challenges by providing visibility on substance suitability for specific applications and best practice data relevant to piping, chemical engineering and processing, and EHS compliance.
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Pathway Studio
Pathway Studio facilitates the interpretation of experimental data, giving greater insight into the mechanisms of disease and accelerating biological research.
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PharmaPendium
PharmaPendium provides the comparative and up-to-date information needed to verify pharmacokinetic and experimental data, anticipate species-specific issues in translating in vitro and in vivo studies, and predict potential drug–drug interactions, and design clinical trial studies to comply with regulatory requirements.
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QUOSA
QUOSA reduces time spent monitoring, managing, organizing and annotating scientific and medical literature for triage and compliance reports such as PSURs and ICSRs.
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Reaxys
Reaxys improves productivity, combining experimental chemical data and essential literature to return relevant extracted chemical data and citations in response to chemistry questions.
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Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry
Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry enables pharma researchers to quickly and confidently identify the most promising compounds, covering critical areas for medicinal chemistry research, including in vivo animal studies, in vitro efficacy, and drug pharmacokinetics and toxicity data.
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ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect, Elsevier’s leading information solution for researchers, enables pharmaceutical and life sciences researchers to more effectively and efficiently search authoritative, full-text scientific, technical and health content through the use of smart, intuitive functionality.
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Scopus
Scopus helps pharmaceutical and life sciences researchers detect trends, find research partnerships and identify key opinion leaders with the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, complete with tools to track, analyze and visualize scholarly research.





