Introducing Elsevier ScienceDirect
Elsevier ScienceDirect gives you access to the full text of around 240 journals of Elsevier. It is the biggest publisher of scientific and technical journals.
ITC has access to the entire journal collection in the following subject fields:
- Earth & Planetary Sciences
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences
- Environmental Science
The journal titles can be recognized if you use the Journal option in Science Direct. Titles marked with a green booklet belong to these subject collections.
Besides this, it offers you a very strong search tool to make it possible to find the right information. One of the search tools is Scirus. It gives staff and students immediate access to most of the articles you need for your research.
Content of Elsevier ScienceDirect
- Access to the journals in the three subject fields
- Comprehensive and peer-reviewed titles
- Articles are available online before appearing in print
- Articles in Press: rapid access to recently accepted articles
- Access from 1998 onwards
Articles in journals to which we have no full text access and in issues older than 1998 can be searched, but are not full text available within Science Direct. So, if you find such an article, you have to request the library to get the article for you through interlibrary loan. In most cases, you will receive the articles as electronic files within a few working days.
Copyright issues
You may use Elsevier 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
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