Introducing ScienceDirect / Elsevier
ScienceDirect gives you access to more than 2,500 journals and more than nine million full-text articles. ITC has access to the entire journal Collection, the Freedom Collection and the Subject Backfile Collection including the following subject fields:
- Earth & Planetary Sciences
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences
- Environmental Science
When accessing Elsevier, always choose UKB 1 Universiteit Twente etc.
New features ScienceDirect/Elsevier
- SciVerse ScienceDirect offers a dedicated image search with e.g., links to its location within the source article to easily understand the context. Users save time by not having to scan complete articles to find relevant images (e.g. figures, photos, tables, and videos)
- Related articles from Reference Works are offered on the right hand side of an article in order to connect essential and fundamental information from reference works on SciVerse ScienceDirect. In that way users can easily access related basic knowledge for broadening their perspective or better understanding a new and unfamiliar topic.
- Additional information is provided on the article types to quickly check whether the article is of interest. The user will be able to distinguish between original research articles and review articles.
- Launched already in 2008 the Document Download Manager allows users to easily download multiple PDFs, automatically name and save them simultaneously. Now the list of compatible browsers has expanded to include Mozilla Firefox® 2.0, and 3.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, Chrome 4.0. and Safari 3.0. In addition, MAC Snow leopard and Windows 7 operating systems are also now supported.
For more information see: http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciencedirect/releases
and http://help.sciencedirect.com/flare/Content/tutorials/sd_whatsnew.html
For tutorials etc. see: http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciencedirect/using/quickstarttools
Copyright issues
You may use ScienceDirect solely for personal use in the context of education or research. This means that you are not allowed to (systematically) download huge amounts of articles. Digital transmission of articles is never permitted.
The license agreement gives the following information:
the subscribed content and other information available through the service may not be used (directly or indirectly) for any of the following purposes:
- substantial or systematic reproduction
- re-distribution, re-selling or sub-licensing in any manner including in connection with fee-for service use
- systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone other than authorized user
- systematic or substantial retention so as to diminish or potentially diminish the commercial value of such information