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 What is ScienceDirect?
 Why ScienceDirect?
 Content
 Where to begin?
 Making ScienceDirect
your own
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Agenda
 What is ScienceDirect?
 Why ScienceDirect?
 Content
 Where to begin?
 Making ScienceDirect
your own
 More Training Options

What is ScienceDirect?
• The world's most advanced web delivery systems for
scientific, technical and medical information.
•The essential information resource available to over 11
million researchers and scientists around the world.
E-books
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Why ScienceDirect?
• Write quality papers with access to peer-reviewed
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• Use innovative tools to stay up-to-date
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• Find articles listed on a course syllabus
• Email articles to a project team
• Collect references for a term paper
• Offer a broader perspective on new subject areas
with an unparralleled breadth and depth of content
• Track research of thought-leaders in a particular
subject
• Link to the full text of references
• Build and maintain a personalized library of articles
• Use user-friendly search functionalities to refine
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Content
 9 million full-text articles from 2,500+ Elsevier
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 23 Subject Collections
 Backfiles dating back to 1823
 Early access to preprints via Articles in Press
 70+ Reference Works
 141 Book Series in 6 packages (63 titles)
 6 series Handbooks (164 volumes)
 5,000 eBooks
 Free linking to other STM publishers via
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Agenda
 What is ScienceDirect?
 Why ScienceDirect?
 Content
 Where to begin?
 Making ScienceDirect
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 What is ScienceDirect?
 Why ScienceDirect?
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 What is ScienceDirect?
 Why ScienceDirect?
 Content
 Where to begin?
 Browsing
 Searching
 Reviewing Search
Results and Material
 Making ScienceDirect
your own
 More Training Options

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