Since its commercial launch in 1999, ScienceDirect has evolved from a web database of Elsevier journals to become one of the world’s largest sources of scientific, technical and medical (STM) literature, serving libraries and scientists around the world.
Key facts
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ScienceDirect has now been redesigned to make full-text content even quicker and easier to access.
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Today, over a quarter of the world’s full-text STM articles is available on the platform.
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ScienceDirect’s extensive full-text collection covers authoritative titles from the core scientific literature including high impact titles such as The Lancet, Cell and Tetrahedron.
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Almost nine million articles are available online, including Articles in Press which offer rapid access to recently accepted manuscripts.
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Coverage includes over 2,500 journals and more than 10,000 books including reference works, handbooks, book series and e-books.
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ScienceDirect enables dynamic linking to journals from over 2,500 leading STM publishers through CrossRef.