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ScienceDirect Topics create an interactive, seamless and convenient reading experience through in-page embedded links. Each link opens a window on the page so your reading experience is never interrupted.
Topics pages are generated using innovative automated technology for information extraction, including natural language processing and AI techniques. Topics deliver the most relevant information from reference books and other published sources on ScienceDirect, offering deeper interdisciplinary knowledge of the material.
Get a seamless reading experience while broadening your understanding of what you are reading. Topics pages:
Are free to access on ScienceDirect
Give definitions and related terms for each concept
Provide snippets of high-quality, relevant, peer-reviewed content
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Are linked from journal articles and book chapters across ScienceDirect
Are available across all scientific disciplines on ScienceDirect
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Makes getting essential answers from published, peer-reviewed books more accessible
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Enables quick exploration of a novel subject
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Assures teachers that the content their students are using is reliable and authoritative
Offers an easy, interactive experience for students learning a new concept or reading a journal article for the first time
Increases reading speed and convenience with hyperlinked terms from within journal articles and book chapters across ScienceDirect
Extracts content from a range of book sources to connect the dots among ideas, facilitating cognitive leaps that move scholarship forward
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