ScienceDirect: The premier platform for scientific, health and technical literature

What's new?

• Introducing ScienceDirect AI: Effortlessly uncover mission critical insights from trusted, quality peer-reviewed literature

• Interactive substance data from Reaxys opens in new tab/window: ScienceDirect article pages now show interactive structure data from Reaxys for related substances

• Articles from leading publishers: New content partnerships mean researchers can search an additional 180,000 articles from leading publishers directly on ScienceDirect

• Self-service purchasing opens in new tab/window: Elsevier’s new Institutional Ordering Platform provides faster access to ScienceDirect books and journals — institutional customers can now purchase access without contacting a sales representative

Discover millions of peer-reviewed articles. With more than 3,000 peer-reviewed journals, the possibilities for progress are endless. ScienceDirect supports interdisciplinary research, with resources including:

• 23 million articles and book chapters

• 3.8 million open access articles (including Open Archive or ‘Bronze’ open access)

• 890 open access journals

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Get the facts: Learn how ScienceDirect helps students, educators and researchers strengthen their goals and deliver mission critical insights.

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Explore opportunities to publish your research in special issues of journals on ScienceDirect.

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Strengthen your research with books. Dive deeper into your subject with an extensive selection of books from respected publishers including Academic Press, W.B. Saunders and Woodhead Publishing. ScienceDirect users can search up to:

• 48,000 books

• 1 million authors

• More than 50 imprints

Experience intuitive learning with ScienceDirect Topics. Instantly clarify unfamiliar terms and concepts. Key terms in ScienceDirect journal articles and book chapters link directly to more than 430,000 topic pages. Each page features a concise definition, content snippets and related reading, providing immediate context to help deliver mission critical insights.

ScienceDirect AI is a workflow companion that enables researchers to instantly surface, cite, compare and explore trusted evidence from deep within the peer-reviewed literature. It makes knowledge discovery more efficient, practical and rewarding. 

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For 25 years, ScienceDirect has been honored to serve the research and scholarly communities worldwide. Together, we inspire discoveries and advance progress.