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ScienceDirect
Description


Elsevier's full-text platform, ScienceDirect, now offers over a quarter of the world's STM (Science, Technical and Medical) articles integrated with a growing range of authoritative books, including reference works, handbooks and book series.

More than 2,000 journals and hundreds of books from Elsevier - including prestigious titles such as The Lancet, Cell, Tetrahedron Letters, the Handbooks in Economics Series and the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences - are available on ScienceDirect.

The Backfiles program also offers the ability to search an electronic archive of millions of articles, back to Volume 1, Issue 1.

Visit the Info site for more information about ScienceDirect, including licensing and content information: http://info.sciencedirect.com

Redesign
Nearly 10 years since launch, ScienceDirect has been redesigned to improve researcher productivity by making this relevant full-text content easier to access.

These new features include:
  • Improving the navigation to facilitate seamless browsing through all types of content
  • Expanding the 'quick search' to all pages to enable users to find full-text content more easily
  • Creating a customizable homepage which tracks and displays all recent actions
  • Adding a 'My quick link' feature to help you reach other electronic resources more easily
  • Improving the way you set up Personalization features such as alerts and favorites


Be sure to check out the ScienceDirect Online Tutorial and see for yourself how these changes will signifantly enhance the ScienceDirect user experience: http://www.info.sciencedirect.com/using/

Download the New User Guides for the Redesigned ScienceDirect:
Guest User Guide
Quicker User Guide (subscribed users)
ScienceDirect redesign/The user experience White Paper that has also been published with contributors from leading academic and corporate institutions.

What if I cannot get access?
Presumably your library does not subscribe to the journal via ScienceDirect. In order to subscribe to ScienceDirect, your librarian needs to contact your Regional Sales Office.

News
Please visit http://info.sciencedirect.com for the latest news about ScienceDirect where you can subscribe to our web-based newsletter SD Connect.



ScienceDirect Onsite
ScienceDirect offers the solution for local loading of the comprehensive ScienceDirect database onto your institute's intranet. Libraries who wish to:
  • Access their content locally
  • Customize for their users
  • Integrate with their library systems
  • Offer a single search interface across multiple resources
will find ScienceDirect an innovative and robust solution. ScienceDirect's OnSite's preferred enabling technology is ScienceServer software; which includes multiple user enhancements and features to benefit the management of your library system. ScienceServer software is being developed to enable smooth integration with Endeavors total library management system, ENCompass.
To discuss the benefits ScienceDirect Onsite can offer your institute, contact your nearest Elsevier Regional Sales Office.



Last update: 22 Sep 2009
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