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Unsurpassed electronic products
Elsevier has a dedicated usability department which continuously re-evaluates and benchmarks our electronic products against industry competitors to ensure they remain the best in their class.

ScienceDirect
 

ScienceDirect is Elsevier's full-text platform 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 to content from hundreds of other STM publishers via the CrossRefTM initiative.

ScienceDirect offers researchers remote, desktop access; fast search; interlinked articles and references, and email alert services. 

We are continuously looking at ways of using new technology to meet the information needs of research communities. Some recent innovations include:

• 4,000 eBooks now online - on one platform you now search seamlessly across journals, books and reference works 
• related articles function where more articles will be recommended based on your searches and the articles you’re viewing 
• spell checker
• supplementary data – ScienceDirect can support animations, movies, high resolution images, background data sets, sound clips and more.
  Examples include:
  
  • An acoustic analysis of ‘happy-tensing’ in the Queen's Christmas broadcasts (movie)
    Journal of Phonetics, Volume 34, Issue 4, October 2006
  • Glottal stop, glottalized resonants, and pharyngeals: A reinterpretation with evidence from a laryngoscopic study of Nuuchahnulth (Nootka) (audio)
    Journal of Phonetics, Volume 33, Issue 4, October 2005
  • Valency in classifier predicates: A syntactic analysis (movie) 
    Lingua, Volume 117, Issue 7, July 2007
  • “Academic English” in the 7th grade: Broadening the lens, expanding access (image)
    Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Volume 5, Issue 4, October 2006

www.sciencedirect.com


Scopus

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Designed and developed in conjunction with over 600 users and librarians worldwide, Scopus improves research productivity for users and librarians.

Its unique database contains abstracts and 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. 

Scopus provides access to over 2,850 social science titles (back to 1996) and indexes all titles currently included in the Thomson Social Science Citation Index. 

Scopus users can now search an additional 4,500 titles from ProQuest’s leading database in the areas of arts and humanities & social sciences including Linguistic and Language Behaviour Abstracts, back to 1962.

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. 

In 2006 Scirus received the ‘Best Speciality Search Engine WebAward’ for the third consecutive year from the Web Marketing Association (WMA). 

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 topics and provide introductory information about the subject with related links both to peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed material. The pages also offer authors the opportunity to increase their visibility within a particular field of research.

www.scirus.com