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Engage students of all levels with high-quality scholarly information from ScienceDirect.
Helping students and faculty members effectively navigate scholarly literature in an age of misinformation remains a top priority for librarians and their academic institutions.
ScienceDirect enables you to equip your students and instructors with highly relevant and authoritative information to support all curriculum requirements and educational development.
Whether undergraduates, graduates or PhD trainees, students at any level can engage with a broad range of high-quality scholarly materials: from those that introduce a broad range of subjects and fields on which to build a solid foundation, to those that advance subject matter expertise through leading primary source information.
Elsevier’s journals and books on ScienceDirect can help to:
Meet course learning goals, from foundational knowledge to deeper explorations of a specialized field of study
Support learning activities from the classroom to the lab and beyond — such as individual coursework, group or capstone projects, and theses
Develop or expand subject matter expertise with the latest information from authoritative sources
Prepare students for successful careers by developing critical thinking skills and knowledge across a wide range of subjects
ScienceDirect features authoritative, full-text information covering 24 subject areas to support all curriculum needs:
Physical Sciences & Engineering publications cover a range of sub-disciplines including Chemistry, Computer Science and Mathematics
Life Sciences: Biochemistry, Genetics & Molecular Biology, Environmental Science, and Neuroscience
Health Sciences: Medicine & Dentistry, Pharmacology, Toxicology & Pharmaceutical Science, and Veterinary Science & Veterinary Medicine
Social Sciences & Humanities: Business, Management & Accounting, Economics, Econometrics & Finance, and Psychology
Information of all stages of learning
"I use a lot of content from ScienceDirect for my students to provide them insights about recent theories/practices. It helped develop their research skills, content development skills and writing skills."
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Hardik Shah
Associate Professor at Nirma University, India
Robust basic and advanced Search features that quickly uncover the depth and breadth of relevant information
Embedded Topics pages that richly define terms to improve students’ understanding and knowledge of what they are reading all within one space
Reading History and Alerts to easily track information already viewed and receive notifications when new information becomes available
Remote Access that supports online courses and workgroup sessions any time, anywhere
With ScienceDirect Topics:
Students learn new concepts and connect the dots, as well as increase reading speed with hyperlinked terms
Teachers get up to speed with new teaching areas and point their students towards reliable and authoritative paths of discovery
Researchers quickly explore a novel subject when carrying out interdisciplinary research
Librarians enable increased research productivity and research performance as well as drive more discoverability and usage of the content
"With ScienceDirect topic pages, it helps me save my time researching any information as it really exposes various connections across one topic and others.”
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Student
By embedding ScienceDirect as a scholarly information resource in coursework, students will learn how to:
Identify or apply terms and concepts for online searches
Find appropriate information to use in their work
Evaluate sources
Apply information from sources to their coursework
Correctly acknowledge sources in their work
Get permissions to reuse book excerpts, articles, images or graphics.
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5 essential capabilities all students need for academic and career success
5 action steps librarians can take to help boost students' information literacy skills to build the capabilities they need
Our knowledgeable staff will take the time to discuss your needs and help you evaluate and select the right ScienceDirect option for:
staying ahead of the latest research
progressing discoveries and insights
giving students and PhD trainees foundational knowledge in a specific area
learning more about a new or adjacent discipline
advancing your educational and research missions
