Kazakhstan's science and education organizations have free access to Thomson and Elsevier

"All scientific and educational institutions in the country are connected to the global free databases "Thomson" and "Elsevier " for scientists to keep abreast of all scientific achievements, changes, and get equal to the level of Western experts," said M. Orunkhanov during the held in Astana 2nd gathering of student organizations of Kazakhstan abroad. "We have financed more than 2 thousand research projects, conducted an independent examination with the assistance of foreign experts and the result of our activities is that Kazakhstan has declared itself on the international stage."

NOTE: «Elsevier» is currently the world's largest publishing holding of scientific, technical and medical literature with over 400 years of history. Elsevier information solutions are used by more than 30 million scientists, physicians, students, and professionals around the world. Subscribers to the print and electronic products are research centers, libraries, universities, ministries and agencies in more than 180 countries.

In turn «Thomson Reuters» is also a leading global company in the field of scientific and technical information. It was formed as a result of the acquisition of Thomson Corporation in April 2008, Reuters (Reuters Group plc). Its headquarters are in New York. Its share of the global market for business, scientific, medical and legal information is 12.5 billion dollars. The number of employees of the company, which supplies information for 40 million subscribers in 155 countries, amounts to 50,000 people who work in 93 countries on six continents.

Kazakhstan was the first CIS country that received the right of access to global information resources and authoritative scientific publications of the company.