ScienceDirect is a database from Elsevier. Go to ScienceDirect by clicking here.
ScienceDirect gives you access to more than 30,000 e-books; 4000 journals; and more than 18 million full-text articles. ScienceDirect has several options to help researchers with their literature research:
- The Advanced search and Expert search fields can be combined with refining options into; science areas, different types of publications, and either publication years or specific volumes.
- Registering with ScienceDirect offers a.o. e-mail alerts on your search results, Journal content alerts, and general topic alerts.
- Your search history is visible to help you refine and decide which strategy is best.
- Registration with ScienceDirect is also valid for Scopus and Geobase. Search histories and alerts however are stored separately.
From the results page of your literature search, several options are available:
- ScienceDirect shows the results sorted by Date, you can of course change the sorting order.
- The refine filters in the left window pane can help narrow your results.
- In the middle pane, you can read the abstract with each article for a fast selection of materials, click the title to read online, and access full-resolution images from the article.
- Open Access (orange), subscription access (green), en non-access papers (grey) are indicated on the right-hand side of the results list.
- The Export button allows you to export selected papers to your reference manager, Mendeley, Endnote, etc.
tutorials
More ScienceDirect tutorials can be found here: http://help.sciencedirect.com/flare/Content/tutorials/sd_menu.html