ScienceDirect: Connecting Researchers to Must-Have Content
Access to the world's literature via the World Wide Web has revolutionized the work of researchers. ScienceDirect was one of the first products of its kind to take advantage of Web technology to provide easy access to fully searchable research articles, making the gap between researchers and research information as narrow and easy to cross as possible.
Covering over a quarter of the world's research literature, ScienceDirect connects researchers to the content they need to move forward with their work.
But don’t take our word for it. Listen to what one customer has to say: “I need databases like ScienceDirect to get current and past information. What happens with time is that generalizations creep into observations, into explanations. The generalizations kind of round out and remove detail, and then all of a sudden it becomes less and less valid and more and more a sort of pastiche of what the original scientists had said. So it’s useful to go back to that information.”
Through ScienceDirect, researchers worldwide can access more than 9 million articles from over 4,500 journals published by Elsevier and other publishers. Coverage includes high Impact Factor titles such as The Lancet, Cell and Tetrahedron, and an expanding program of online major reference works, handbooks, book series and over 4,400 eBooks in all fields of science.
Innovation in knowledge discovery
ScienceDirect is constantly evolving. Ten years ago, we launched a Web site that resembled a library with a catalog system. Today we work closely with users to better understand the outcomes they’re seeking. Development partners from more than 30 institutions and corporations around the world regularly help us develop new concepts and test solutions to meet the needs of users.
As a result, authors now benefit from wider visibility and a faster online publication process. Researchers can customize their settings, conduct more targeted searches, recall saved searches, set up automated alerts and connect with favourite titles right from the homepage. A new partnership with NextBio enables life sciences, health sciences and chemistry researchers to derive more insights from ScienceDirect content. With the NextBio search engine, they can search ScienceDirect’s peer-reviewed literature together with publicly available research data from PubMed, clinical trials, experimental data and news articles, on a single platform to improve discoverability and research productivity.
