Electronic publishing is the future of scientific research and medical practice. Access to content and linking is of paramount importance. Through our innovative products and services, we help users navigate and seamlessly link to a vast body of knowledge available wherever they are.
CrossRef Linking
As a founding member of CrossRef, Elsevier supports industry-wide cross-platform linking solutions. ScienceDirect offers free linking to over to over 245 publishers from article references and bibliographic databases on the platform. We register all our article metadata using the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) standard, which means our links are persistent and won’t change or break.
GenBank Linking
GenBank is the NIH (US National Institutes of Health) genetic sequence database, a collection of all publicly available DNA sequences. Many articles in ScienceDirect contain these sequences and are linkable to descriptions of those particular sequences in GenBank.
OpenURL Linking
Elsevier, a member of the NISO Committee AX, actively supports the OpenURL industry standard for sending metadata using a specific syntax. Using link resolvers, the OpenURL standard enables librarians to set up links from abstracts and references on platforms such as ScienceDirect to corresponding content and services from other resources. Visit
ScienceDirect Linking
As well as comprehensive internal linking within and between our full-text content, we also support a wealth of linking functionality to and from the ScienceDirect platform. This functionality is available to all our customers free of charge. For details, visit the ScienceDirect Info site.
