# ScienceDirect
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{{Short description|Website for accessing scientific and medical publications}}
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| producer = [Elsevier](/source/Elsevier)
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| cost = [Subscription](/source/Subscription_business_model) and open access
| disciplines = Science
| depth = Index, abstract & full-text
| formats = Books, journals
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| geospatial = Worldwide
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'''ScienceDirect''' is a searchable web-based [bibliographic database](/source/bibliographic_database), which provides access to full texts of [scientific](/source/Scientific_literature) and [medical publications](/source/Medical_literature) of the Dutch publisher [Elsevier](/source/Elsevier) as well of several small [academic publishers](/source/academic_publishing). It hosts over 18 million [publications](/source/publications) from more than 4,000 [academic journal](/source/academic_journal)s and 30,000 [e-books](/source/e-books).[{{cite web |url= http://www.sciencedirect.com/| title= ScienceDirect |access-date=17 February 2016 }}][{{Cite web|url=http://www.relxgroup.com/investorcentre/reports%202007/Documents/2014/relxgroup_ar_2014.pdf|title=2014 RELX Annual Reports and Financial Statements|last=Reller|first=Tom|website=RELX Group|publisher=[RELX Group](/source/RELX_Group)|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150319005511/http://www.relxgroup.com/investorcentre/reports%202007/Documents/2014/relxgroup_ar_2014.pdf|archive-date=19 March 2015|access-date=17 February 2016}}] Access to full-texts requires a subscription, while the bibliographic [metadata](/source/metadata) is publicly available. ScienceDirect was launched by Elsevier in March 1997.[{{cite web |url=http://partners.nytimes.com/library/cyber/euro/030497euro.html |title=Building the World's Largest Scientific Database |work=[New York Times](/source/New_York_Times) |date=4 March 1997 |access-date=14 March 2014 |author=Giussani, Bruno}}]
== Usage ==
The journals are grouped into four main sections:
*''[Physical Sciences](/source/Physical_Sciences) and [Engineering](/source/Engineering)''
*''[Life Sciences](/source/Life_Sciences)''
*''[Health Sciences](/source/Health_Sciences)''
*''[Social Sciences](/source/Social_science) and [Humanities](/source/Humanities)''.
[Article abstracts](/source/Abstract_(summary)) are publicly available, and access to their full texts (in [PDF](/source/PDF) and, for newer publications, also [HTML](/source/HTML)) generally requires a subscription or [pay-per-view](/source/pay-per-view) purchase unless the article is publicly available in open access.
Papers published under several [open access](/source/open_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 texts hosted on ScienceDirect, rather than to specific titles, are usually acquired through what is called a [big deal](/source/Big_deal_(subscription_model)). The other [big five publishers](/source/Big_Five_(publishers)) have similar offers.
ScienceDirect also competes for audience with other large [aggregators](/source/Search_aggregator) and hosts of [scholarly communication](/source/scholarly_communication) content such as academic social network [ResearchGate](/source/ResearchGate) and [open access repository](/source/open_access_repository) [arXiv](/source/arXiv), as well as with fully [open access](/source/open_access) publishing venues and [mega journal](/source/mega_journal)s like [PLOS](/source/PLOS).
ScienceDirect also carries ''[Cell](/source/Cell_(journal))''.
The search and bibliographic export options of ScienceDirect are very limited. For better search capabilities Elsevier provides via internet a [paid-access](/source/Paywall) database [Scopus](/source/Scopus).
== See also ==
* [List of academic databases and search engines](/source/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines)
* [Scopus](/source/Scopus)
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
== Further reading ==
* {{cite journal|doi=10.1007/s11192-015-1779-z|title=Relationships between consumption, publication and impact in French universities in a value perspective: A bibliometric analysis|year=2016|last1=Boukacem-Zeghmouri|first1=Chérifa|last2=Bador|first2=Pascal|last3=Lafouge|first3=Thierry|last4=Prost|first4=Hélène|journal=Scientometrics|volume=106|pages=263–280|s2cid=8897085|url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01272124/file/Article-ROI_Boukacem_Scientometrics2015%20corrected%20complet-1.pdf}}
* {{cite web|hdl=10760/19670|hdl-access=free|url=http://eprints.rclis.org/19670/|title=Usage data, e-journal selection and negotiations: Iranian consortium experience|date=2013|first1=Ebrahim|last1=Emrani|first2=A.|last2=Moradi-Salari|first3=Hamid R.|last3=Jamali}}
* {{cite journal|doi=10.1002/leap.1142|title=The Science ''Direct'' accessibility journey: A case study|year=2018|last1=Gies|first1=Ted|journal=Learned Publishing|volume=31|pages=69–76|doi-access=free}}
== External links ==
* {{Official website}}
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