ScienceDirect An Overview

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ScienceDirectAn Overview

• Nazim Mohammedi
• Senior Account Manager
• African Middle East - Turkey

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Topics

• Solution of Choice
• Subject Field Coverage
• Full-text Content
• Supplementary Files
• Journals Early Access
• Elsevier Reference Works on ScienceDirect
• Elsevier Book Series on ScienceDirect
• Backfiles

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Solution of Choice

• Content
• Critical mass of worlds leading peer-reviewed,
  full-text scientific, technical and medical
  information
• Over 1,800 journals on one platform
• AI databases, Book Series and Reference Works
  also available
• Usability
• Integrated searching covers journals, abstract
  databases, Book Series and
  Reference Works
• Links via CrossRef connect to full text of over
  300 other vendors platforms
• Reliability
• Elseviers significant investments over years
  ensure ScienceDirect is a stable
  platform
• At ScienceDirect, users can access information
  they need when they need it

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Subject Field Coverage

• Agricultural and Biological Sciences
• Arts and Humanities
• Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
• Business, Management and Accounting
• Chemical Engineering
• Chemistry
• Computer Science
• Decision Sciences
• Earth and Planetary Sciences
• Economics, Econometrics and Finance
• Energy and Power

• Engineering
• Environmental Science
• Immunology and Microbiology
• Materials Science
• Mathematics
• Medical and Dentistry
• Neuroscience
• Nursing and Health Professions
• Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
• Physics and Astronomy
• Psychology
• Social Sciences
• Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine

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Full-Text Content

• Includes over 6.5M full-text articles
• Offers growing program of back issues
  to volume 1, issue 1
• Offers HTML and PDF
• Includes journals, AI databases,
  Elsevier Reference Works on
  ScienceDirect, and Book Series

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Supplementary Files

• Rich functionality unavailable in print
• Color images
• Building from January 2003, as submitted by
  authors
• Supplementary and multimedia components
• Video (mpeg files)
• Audio (au files)
• Spreadsheets (xls files)
• Supplementary data (doc files)
• Widely accepted, standard formats only

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Supplementary Files, continued
Use links following Article Outline in Summary
Plus or HTML full-text articles
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Supplementary Files, continued

• Links appear at
• End of SummaryPlus and HTML full-text articles
• Within HTML full-text content

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Journals Early Access
Early visibility Peer-reviewed and accepted for
publication, but not yet published in print
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Elsevier Reference Works on ScienceDirect
Where to find ScienceDirects growing program of
Reference Works
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Reference Works on ScienceDirect, continued

• Features
• Browsing by subject classification
• Browsing the subject index
• Searching the subject index
• Reference linking
• Currently Available
• Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry II
• Comprehensive Clinical Psychology
• Comprehensive Composite Materials
• Comprehensive Structural Integrity
• Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences
• Encyclopedia of Cancer, 2nd Edition
• Encyclopedia of Endocrine Diseases

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Reference Works on ScienceDirect, continued

• Currently Available
• Encyclopedia of Energy
• Encyclopedia of Food Sciences and Nutrition
• Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences
• Encyclopedia of Forest Sciences
• Encyclopedia of Gastroenterology
• Encyclopedia of Genetics
• Encyclopedia of Hormones
• Encyclopedia of the Human Brain
• Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition
• Encyclopedia of Materials Science Technology
• Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences
• Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences
• Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology
• Encyclopedia of Psychotherapy

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Reference Works on ScienceDirect. continued

• Currently Available
• Encyclopedia of Separation Science
• International Encyclopedia of the Social and
  Behavioral Sciences
• Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy and Spectrometry
• Encyclopedia of Vibration
• Encyclopedia of Virology
• Treatise on Geochemistry
• Next Titles Available (end-2004)
• Encyclopedia of Applied Plant Science
• Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology
• Encyclopedia of Biodiversity
• Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry
• Encyclopedia of Dairy Sciences

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Reference Works on ScienceDirect. continued

• Next Titles Available (end-2004)
• Encyclopedia of Food Microbiology
• Encyclopedia of Grain Sciences
• Encyclopedia of Immunology
• Encyclopedia of Information Systems
• Encyclopedia of International Media and
  Communication
• Encyclopedia of Meat Sciences
• Encyclopedia of Rose Science
• Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment
• Titles Currently Expected (early-2005)
• Comprehensive Organic Functional Group
  Transformations II
• Encyclopedia of Analytical Science
• Encyclopedia of Geology
• Encyclopedia of Modern Optics
• Encyclopedia of Social Measurement

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Elsevier Book Series on ScienceDirect
Where to find ScienceDirects growing program of
Book Series
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Book Series on ScienceDirect function like
journals
Quick Search
Sign up for new volume/issue alerts
Browse by volume / title of volume
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Book Series on ScienceDirect

• Features
• Publish regularly, usually at least once per year
• Offer content and structure similar to those of
  journals
• Are highly cited and often have high usage per
  article
• Present more lengthy examination of subject areas
  than is possible in journal articles
• Offer articles that can stand alone and do not
  need the context of a volume to be meaningful
• Available Now
• Chemistry (12 titles)
• Business, Management Economics (54 titles)
• Life Sciences (33 titles)
• Methods in Enzymology (1 title)
• Methods in Enzymology Backfiles (1955-1999)

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Backfiles

• Features
• Offer coverage from volume 1, issue 1
• Offer critical mass of content
• Comprise The Minutes of Science
• Available Now
• Agricultural and Biological Sciences
• Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
• Business, Management and Accounting
• Cell Press Titles
• Chemistry (4 packages)
• Computer Sciences
• Decision Sciences
• Earth and Planetary Sciences
• Economics, Econometrics and Finance

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Backfiles, continued
Available Now

• Energy and Power
• Engineering and Technology
• Environmental Sciences
• FEBS Letters
• High Energy/Nuclear Physics and Astronomy
• Immunology and Microbiology
• The Lancet
• Materials Science
• Mathematics

• Medicine and Dentistry
• Neuroscience
• Nursing and Health Professions
• Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
• Physics General
• Psychology
• Social Science
• Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine

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Backfiles Supplements

• Available Now
• Organic Chemistry Supplement 1
• Inorganic Chemistry Supplement 1
• Chemical Engineering Supplement 1
• Physical and Analytical Chemistry Supplement 1
• Mathematics Supplement 1
• Economics, Econometrics and Finance Supplement 1
• Business, Management and Accounting Supplement 1
• Psychology Supplement 1
• Social Science Supplement 1
• Physics General Supplement 1
• High Energy/Nuclear Physics and Astronomy
  Supplement 1
• Pharmacology , Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
  Supplement 1
• Immunology and Microbiology Supplement 1
• Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  Supplement 1
• Neuroscience Supplement 1
• Earth and Planetary Sciences Supplement 1
• Computer Science Supplement 1
• Environmental Science Supplement 1

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Backfiles Supplements

• Backfiles Supplements are
• Newly acquired titles from Harcourt societies
• Approximately 1- 1.5 million additional articles

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Future Plans

• More Elsevier Reference Works on ScienceDirect
• 30 additional titles in 2004/2005
• More Elsevier Book Series on ScienceDirect
• 200 more titles planned for 2004/2005 in social
  sciences, mathematics, and physics
• Cell Press
• Since 2004, all newly-published Cell Press
  journal articles appear on ScienceDirect
• ScienceDirect has also added Cell Press backfiles
• Access to the online archive (not the most recent
  year and back to 1995 only) of Cell and the other
  premier journals of the Cell Press collection
  will be freely available as of January 2005, on
  ScienceDirect

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ScienceDirect and Consortia

• What are the Criterias
• Number of participating members
• Size of members (FTE)
• Existing Elsevier Subscriptions per members
• What content is required for
• Consortium
• Individual Members
• Licensing and Invoicing Single or Individual

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ScienceDirect and Consortia Debate

• Floor is open for Questions!!!!

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Thank you!