ScienceDirect

ScienceDirect is Elsevier’s full-text database which provides access to over 8 million articles, 80 million abstracts, more than 2,000 Elsevier and third-party journals and an expanding books programme. In addition, free linking is provided to content outside of the Elsevier database from hundreds of other STM publishers via the CrossRef™ initiative.

ScienceDirect functionality offers remote, desktop access; fast search; interlinked articles; and email alerting services for researchers and practitioners alike. For librarians it offers easier collection management; easy-to-access article usage data; reduced storage space and other cost saving efficiencies.

Elsevier is continuously focusing on the future and ScienceDirect is looking at novel ways to use technology to best meet the information needs of global and individual research communities.

http://www.sciencedirect.com

Scopus

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality websources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Designed and developed in conjunction with over 300 individual users and librarians worldwide, Scopus improves research productivity and effectiveness for users and librarians.

Scopus provides access to over 2,850 social sciences titles (back to 1996), and delivers additional results from over 1,000 titles in Business and Economics via a partnership with Proquest CSA Illumina. Scopus indexes all the titles currently included in the Thomson Social Science Citation Index.

Scopus contains abstracts and cited references from over 15,000 titles from 4,000 different publishers and won the International Information Industry Award for best Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) Information Product in December 2005.

http://www.scopus.com

Scirus

Search represents the driving force behind the web, and Scirus is one of the most comprehensive science-focused search engines providing free support to researchers, practitioners and students worldwide. Scirus is currently developing ‘Topic Pages’, which provide an informal communication and collaborative platform for scientific authors.

These freely available pages are dedicated to specific scientific topics and provide introductory information about the subject with related links both to peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed material. These Topic Pages will complement the peer review process by providing a dynamic web-2.0 form of communication for authors. The pages also offer authors the opportunity to increase their visibility within a particular field of research.

http://www.scirus.com

Advancing the field across the globe

Through ScienceDirect, Elsevier content is now accessible, back to volume 1, issue 1, to over 11 million scientists worldwide. Elsevier is committed to supporting the advancement of Economics globally, and full-text article usage has grown exponentially year on year since the launch of ScienceDirect in 1999.

Elsevier’s economics journals have enjoyed strong usage growth for many years, and in particular witnessed an explosion of readership across Asia (see graph below).

Collaboration with REPEC

Elsevier is fully committed to partnering with the Economics community to maximise dissemination. Launched in 1996, RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 58 countries and 35 US states to enhance the dissemination of research in economics.
Elsevier economics journals and handbooks are accessible via REPEC back to volume 1, Issue 1.

Comprehensive free access for developing nations

Elsevier contributes its content to researchers in developing countries bringing them closer to their peers and their individual researcher communities through a range of initiatives. These initiatives provide free or very low cost access to the major journals to public institutions in developing countries. Elsevier is proud to make all of its Social Sciences and Economics journals accessible through these international initiatives.

Elsevier is one of the founding health publishers of HINARI (Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initaitive), a UN-based initiative which provides online access to Elsevier journals, without charge to public institutions in developing countries.

Elsevier offers its journals free via AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture). Devloped by the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization, this programme provides access to high quality relevant information in agriculture and related fields to developing countries.

Through an initiative developed by the UN Environment programme, Yale University and a range of publishers, Elsevier is able to provide free or reduced cost access to scientific literature about the environment via the OARE initiative (Online Access to Research in the Environment).

Broadening participation at ASSA

Elsevier is delighted to announce that Prabal Ray Chaudhuri, winner of the inaugural Journal of Development Economics Best Paper Award, will benefit from a fully expense paid trip to attend ASSA 2008 in New Orleans. Professor Chaudhuri is based at the Indian Statistical Institute, Dehli, and wins the award in recognition of his article “Group-lending with Sequential Financing, Contingent Renewal and Social Capital". Eligible authors are those from low-income countries.

Affordable personal subscriptions

Individuals can subscribe to Elsevier economics journals at a fraction of the institutional subscription rate. Visit the journal homepages on http://www.elsevier.com for details.

Flexible access options

Elsevier provides a range of access options to allow you the freedom to choose how you want to access content. In addition to the comprehensive online collections available to academic institutions, Elsevier has developed offerings tailored to meet a variety of specialized customer requirements.

See chart on the right or visit http://www.info.sciencedirect.com for more information about online access options.