The premier electronic platform: ScienceDirect -  Your digital library.

ScienceDirect is the essential information resource for millions of researchers and scientists, holding more than a quarter of the world’s electronic collection of science, technical and medical full-text, peer-reviewed titles.

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.

Users can access more than 7 million full-text articles and more than 75 million abstract records, from all fields of science. Most journal articles become available immediately after peer review and before the printed versions are issued. Additionally, they gain online access to multimedia features not available in print journals, such as video, audio and spreadsheet files.

ScienceDirect offers the following functionality:

• Browse issues and tables of contents
• Access and download articles (HTML & PDF format)
• Links from references to other articles on ScienceDirect or other publishers' platforms
• View abstracts of non-subscribed journals on ScienceDirect
• Access several years of archived materials
• Search on title, full text, author, keyword, year, etc.
• Save a search
• Receive email alerts
• Set up a Personal Journal List

ScienceDirect increases access and visibility  

With an user population of over 10 million, ScienceDirect offers extremely high visibility and usage. 'Articles in Press' provides fast access to peer reviewed content, while 'Backfiles' can ensure coverage back to Volume 1 issue 1. To find out more about the  value of online journal backfiles.

A special program has been set up for our society journal  Editors which can provide them with full access to the platform in order to support their work identifying authors, reviewers and (new) subject areas of interest.

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