ScienceDirect® is the essential information resource for millions of researchers and scientists.

Available to 10 million researchers around the world

What is ScienceDirect?What is ScienceDirect?

ScienceDirect covers about 24.4% of the world’s full-text scientific, technical and

medical (STM) information across 24 fields of science

ScienceDirect covers about 24.4% of the world’s full-text scientific, technical and

medical (STM) information across 24 fields of science

• Over 9 million full-text articles from 2,000+

Elsevier journals

• 24 Subject Collections

• Backfiles dating back to 1823

• Early access to pre-prints via ‘Articles in Press’

• 40+ Reference Works

• 141 Book Series in 6 packages

• 7 series Handbooks (164 volumes)

• 4000 eBooks

What Content is Available?

Finding the right resources for your research

Browsing the Full Title List All the titles in SD are in a

customizable browse list Journals are listed

Alphabetically By Subject Area By Selected Favorite List

Change view to see Subscribed or non-subscribed titles only Journals, books, reference works

What’s Newon

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Article page designWhat’s changing• Cleaner all-round page design – more white space, remove

clutter

• Clear frame around the content to facilitate easier onscreen reading

• Brings journal/citation information into the frame, closer to the article

• Make room for high value content and functionality: – Multimedia, related articles – Domain specific applications for specific content, e.g., Reaxys

application for chemistry content – launching Spring 2010– More applications coming in July

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Before and After

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After

Article page design

Click on the focus button to switch visual emphasis to article only. The rest is blurred out

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Ease of useVolume title of book series

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• book series on ScienceDirect“Developments in Earth and Environmental Sciences” irregular publications under ISSN 1571-9197

volume 9 volume 8 volume 7 …

• Customer purchases

Problem Customers and users cannot browse or search for the volume title of a book series – only the book series main title

Volume title

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•search book volumes from Quick Search:

•browse book volumes (activate with one click)

• VOLTITL – link directly to any volume: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780444528476

Ease of useRefine results by topic

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•Topics created from most frequent keywords in the entire full text article.

•Discover topic areas that they may not have previously considered or thought relevant

“Remember Me” on the Choose Organization Page

The Problem:

• Users equally associated to multiple depts/accounts are presented with the “Choose Organization” page when they try to enter SD. This creates irritation for the user, raising the barrier to enter the platform

What’s Changing:

• Addition of a “Remember this Organization”

• Researchers will be able to change their organization choice from within SD

Graphical abstracts in Alerts and RSS

Updated Alerts

Updated RSS

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Article Based Publishing

Allows completed articles to be put into an issue with pagination and easily

citable

Issues will remain “open” until all articles for that issue are finalised

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Article Based Publishing – “open” issues

Open issues will contain final articles, but articles will continue to be added until the issue itself becomes final. The issue is “In Progress” until final version will display page range.Designed to speed up publication of citable articles

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Article Based Publishing – “open” issues

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Pangaea Implementation As of February 2010, Research data sets

deposited at PANGAEA are now automatically linked to the corresponding articles in

ScienceDirect.

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Searching ScienceDirect

Effectively

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Advanced Search Example

Subject: The economic downturn and its

effect on children

TITLE-ABSTR-KEY(("financ* crisis" OR "financ* downturn" OR "econom* crisis" ))

and TITLE-ABSTR-KEY(child* OR kid* or youth* or infant*) [All Sources(- All Sciences -)]

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Example II

Subject: Inherit diseases

TAK(diarrhoea OR pneumonia OR HIV OR AIDS) AND TAK((child mortality) OR (mother to child))

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