Launched in 1997, ScienceDirect is now available to 11 million users worldwide and has had over 1 billion full-text articles downloaded.

This electronic distribution and the development of new online tools has spurred significant increases in researchers' usage and productivity and today's scientists read around 50% more articles per year than 25 years ago, and read from almost twice as many journals

* Usage statistics on ScienceDirect have been recorded since September 2000

Elsevier publishes 210 journals in physics and astronomy, bridging disciplines and covering a breadth of content ranging from theory and experimental physics to fundamental and applied. Articles take the form of regular papers, reviews and special and topical issues. Elsevier also brings capital and resources to start new journals and help new communities develop and in doing so fully bears the associated financial risks.

1.	Annals of Physics
2.	Journal of Computational Physics
3.	Metamaterials Started in 2007 to help build a new community in the field of metamaterials.
4.	New Astronomy
5.	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research 50 years of publishing. Approximately 2,000 articles published each year. 35,000 articles on ScienceDirect. 16,000 cites each year. IF 2006: 1.185. Editorial turnaround: first decision in under 5 weeks.
6.	Photonics and Nanostructures
7.	Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena
8.	Physics Letters B
9.	Physics of Life Reviews Started in 2004 to establish a bridge between physics and life sciences
10.	Physics Reports
11.	Solid State Communications
12.	Surface Science

Significant rights are granted to or retained by Elsevier journal authors with respect to their use of their own work. Without charge or requesting permission from Elsevier journal authors have the right to:

		Make copies (print or electronic) of the article for their own personal use, including for their own classroom teaching use;
		Make copies and distribute such copies (including through e-mail) of the article to known research colleagues, for the personal use by such colleagues (but not for commercial purposes);
		Post a pre-print version of the article on Internet web sites including electronic pre-print servers, and to retain indefinitely such version on such servers or sites (with some exceptions such as The Lancet and Cell Press);
		Post a revised personal version of the final text of the article (to reflect changes made in the peer review and editing process) on their personal or institutional web site or server, with a link (through the DOI) to the article as published, provided that such postings are not used for commercial purposes;
		Present the article at a meeting or conference and to distribute copies of the article to the delegates attending such meetings;
		For their employer, if the article is a 'work for hire', made within the scope of employment, the employer may use all or part of the information in the article for other intra-company use (e.g. training);
		Retain patent and trademark rights and rights to any process or procedure described in the article;
		Include the article in full or in part in a thesis or dissertation (provided that this is not to be published commercially);
		Use the article or any part thereof in a printed compilation of their own works, such as collected writings or lecture notes (subsequent to publication of the article in the journal); and
		Prepare other derivative works, to extend the article into book-length form, or to otherwise re-use portions or excerpts in other works, with full acknowledgement of its original publication in the journal.

New technologies have been shaping the publishing industry since the advent of digital typesetting in the 1980's, transforming the way knowledge is discovered, written, processed, validated, disseminated and stored for future generations. Elsevier has been a world leader in both developing and deploying these many innovations towards improving the quality of scientific publishing within academia, and reducing costs of disseminating knowledge around the globe.

One of these many "revolutions" is the relatively swift adoption of electronic tools for dissemination, gradually replacing traditional printed formats by libraries worldwide.

Elsevier continues to be the leader in this transition from print to online dissemination by ensuring we are offering the best-in-class electronic products.

Elsevier has also invested over $40 million dollars to scan and digitize backfiles (going back to Volume 1: Issue 1) of our 2,000 STM journals which comprise over 3,250,000 articles. Some articles date back over 100 years.

Elsevier has a dedicated Usability department which continuously re-evaluates and benchmarks our electronic products against industry competitors.

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ScienceDirect is a journals database which provides access to over 8 million articles, 60 million abstracts, more than 2,000 Elsevier and third party journals and free linking to non-Elsevier content from hundreds of other STM publishers via CrossRef™.

Hosting over a quarter of the world’s full-text STM information, ScienceDirect offers researchers remote, desktop access, fast search, interlinked articles and eFunctions such as e-mail alerts. For librarians it offers easier collection management, usage data per journal, reduced storage space and staff efficiencies.

Continuously focusing on the future ScienceDirect is now looking at developing novel ways to use technology to best meet the information needs of global as well as individual research communities. For example, integration of chemical structures, video clips, and the possibility of including data sets are currently being introduced.
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Elsevier's high value knowledge discovery tools are purpose built for academia. In the internet age of ubiquitous (free) information, these best-in-class products have enabled the science & engineering communities to be the only fields where knowledge workers spend less time searching for and more time analyzing information – enabling increased researcher productivity.

Science is the only sector where increased time is spent on analysing more information     Elsevier continuously works on innovating its productivity tools - Scopus is now used at 1,000+ institutes and is serving as a building block for futher increasing productivity

In 1999 Elsevier committed itself to not exceeding a single digit percentage price rise for our core journal collection in our invoicing currencies. This has been honoured in every subsequent year to the present time when growth in the number of articles delivered has been running at 3-4% each and every year.

Today Elsevier offers moderate price increases for increasing content. For the sixth consecutive year, our average price increase for our journal collection remains within the lowest quartile of average price increases across all STM publishers and has contributed to a year-on-year decline in the overall average price rises in the industry.

Elsevier works with libraries to develop flexible purchasing options and institutional subscription options and collection prices are designed to offer choice and flexibility to institutes of varying sizes and needs. Substantial collection discounts are offered to institutes to extend access to more titles. Electronic package prices are usually individually negotiated and offer significant discounts over list prices.

Elsevier and our partners in the scientific and health communities have a shared interest in encouraging wide access to authoritative, peer-reviewed scientific, technical and medical (STM) information. Disseminating scholarly information is fundamental to our contribution to advancing scientific and medical knowledge, and enabling its use and application.

Elsevier-published research is disseminated globally to an ever-growing range of users by subscription, as well as through a variety of initiatives, to provide access for nonsubscribers – including patients, the public, and libraries and institutions in the developing world.

Through a variety of initiatives, Elsevier provides access to non-subscribers including patients, the public and the developing world. Some initiatives have been cited as “Open Access” approaches, a widely used term that covers a range of different approaches to electronic publishing, such as article sponsorship, where authors can sponsor non-subscriber access to articles on ScienceDirect, or author archiving, where authors can archive their final manuscripts to their institution’s repository or website. These and other approaches illustrate how Elsevier continually explores and tests new approaches to meet the needs of the research communities we serve. As we test these approaches we look to balance the needs of both authors and researchers and allow for cost recovery and sustained investment in peer review, quality, global dissemination, and preservation.

Forty-three journals published by Elsevier - including 18 in physics and mathematics - offer authors the option to sponsor non-subscriber access to individual articles. The charge for article sponsorship is $3,000. This charge is necessary to offset publishing costs – from managing article submission and peer review, to typesetting, tagging and indexing of articles, hosting articles on dedicated servers, supporting sales and marketing costs to ensure global dissemination via ScienceDirect, and permanently preserving the published journal article. The fee excludes taxes and other potential author fees such as color charges which are additional.

Authors can only select this option after receiving notification that their article has been accepted for publication. This prevents a potential conflict of interest where a journal would have a financial incentive to accept an article.

Elsevier continues to engage, test and learn.

More information can be found at:
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/intro.cws_home/access_dissemination