Widening Access

Growth in global online usage

Through ScienceDirect, Elsevier content is now available back to volume 1, issue 1. Elsevier is committed to supporting the advancement of cognitive science globally, and full-text article usage has grown exponentially year on year since the launch of ScienceDirect in 1997.

This growth has been driven by improvements in ScienceDirect functionality and a range of flexible access solutions which mean that more than 11 million scientists worldwide now have access to online content.

Source: ScienceDirect usage reports, 2007

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.

Elsevier is one of the founding health publishers of HINARI (Health InterNetwork Access to Research initiative), a UN-based initiative which provides online access to Elsevier journals, without charge or at very low cost access to public institutions in developing countries. Elsevier is proud to make all of its Social Science journals accessible through Hinari.

Elsevier also offers all its journals free to developing countries via AGORA (Access to Global Online Research and Agriculture) and OARE (Online access to Research in the Environment).

The Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries (ILDC) Program

This program awards grants to library programs in the developing world for innovative systems and services that improve access to STM information. Programs which will be considered include enhancing libraries’ capacity in the fields of science, technology and medicine - through library training and education; library infrastructure, technology or information services; and digitization and preservation of information. The foundation especially encourages proposals that support partnerships between libraries in the developing countries and institutions in developed countries. In 2006, grants were awarded to non-profit organizations in China, India and Southeast Asia.

Affordable personal subscriptions

Individuals can subscribe to Elsevier cognitive science journals at a fraction of the institutional subscription rate.

Further member discount subscription rates are all available to members of the following societies:
• The Psychonomic Society
• The Cognitive Neuroscience Society
• American Psychological Association
• Association for Psychological Science
• The International Neuropsychological Society

Visit the journal homepages on www.elsevier.com/cognitivescience 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 below or visit: www.info.sciencedirect.com for more information about online access options.

Organization		Specialized Online Offerings
Large Universities and Government Departments		Comprehensive ScienceDirect licensed collections and subject packages
Large Corporations		ScienceDirect Corporate Edition Comprehensive ScienceDirect licensed collections and subject package
2- and 4 -Year Colleges		ScienceDirect College Edition (Social Sciences collections)
Small Government Departments and Corporations		ScienceDirect E-select (Online backfiles per title to 1995) ScienceDirect ArticleChoice (Pre-paid article collections)
Individuals		ScienceDirect Pay Per View (24-hour access to articles)

Lowering the average cost per downloaded article

Today, our customers’ average cost per article downloaded is a quarter of what it was 5 years ago while users enjoy many more features and functionalities.

The average cost per article downloaded on ScienceDirect has plunged from $10.72 in 2000 to $2.48 in 2005.