In the last issue of The Kiosk, we announced that ScienceDirect, Reed Elsevier's on-line platform, which provides access to a significant body of the world's scientific, technical, and medical (STM) literature, would be implemented in the near future.
Well, we're happy to report that ScienceDirect is now here!
The premier electronic information service for the interdisciplinary research needs of academic, corporate, and educational institutions, which offers comprehensive coverage of literature across all fields of science, was designed to serve needs of the researcher, and is the unsurpassed single source for scientific, technical, and medical information on the Internet. Researchers can access a critical mass of the world's STM journal titles and full-text articles (today over 1.2 million articles), search the leading STM abstract and indexing databases (providing coverage of over 30 million records), and link to articles from an array of STM publishers, all through a variety of platforms.
ScienceDirect offers access to 397 Elsevier Science journals, along with journals from a host of prestigious societies and STM publishers. The full text collection of over 1 million articles, from 1995 to the present, covers a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines, including:
If you would like to try Elsevier ScienceDirect, go to the URL http://www.sciencedirect.com/ and click on the group-wide log-in button at the top of the page.
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