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| Producer | Elsevier |
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| History | March 12, 1997; 28 years ago (1997-03-12)[1] |
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| Cost | Subscription and open access |
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| Disciplines | Science |
| Record depth | Index, abstract & full-text |
| Format coverage | Books, journals |
| Geospatial coverage | Worldwide |
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| Website | sciencedirect |
ScienceDirect is a searchable web-basedbibliographic database, which provides access to full texts ofscientific andmedical publications of the Dutch publisherElsevier as well of several smallacademic publishers. It hosts over 18 millionpublications from more than 4,000academic journals and 30,000e-books.[2][3] The access to the full-text requires subscription, while the bibliographicmetadata are free to read. ScienceDirect was launched by Elsevier in March 1997.[4]
The journals are grouped into four main sections:
Article abstracts are freely available, and access to their full texts (inPDF and, for newer publications, alsoHTML) generally requires a subscription orpay-per-view purchase unless the content is freely available in open access.
Papers published under severalopen access licenses are available on ScienceDirect without cost. Access to the full-text pdfs of non-open access publications require either a subscription (to the specific journal rather than to the whole database) or per-article/book payment. Subscriptions to the overall content hosted on ScienceDirect, rather than to specific titles, are usually acquired through what is called abig deal. The otherbig five publishers have similar offers.
ScienceDirect also competes for audience with other largeaggregators and hosts ofscholarly communication content such as academic social networkResearchGate andopen access repositoryarXiv, as well as with fullyopen access publishing venues andmega journals likePLOS.
ScienceDirect also carriesCell.
The search and bibliographic export options of ScienceDirect are very limited. For better search capabilities Elsevier provides via internet apaid-access databaseScopus.
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