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{{Short description|Website for accessing scientific and medical publications}}
{{Infobox bibliographic database
| title = ScienceDirect
| image = ScienceDirect logo 2020.svg
| caption =
| producer = [[Elsevier]]
| country =
| history = {{start date and age|1997|3|12}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://whois.domaintools.com/sciencedirect.com|title=ScienceDirect.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info – DomainTools|work=[[WHOIS]]|access-date=2016-07-23}}</ref>
| languages =
| providers =
| cost = [[Subscription business model|Subscription]] and open access
| disciplines = Science
| depth = Index, abstract & full-text
| formats = Books, journals
| temporal =
| geospatial = Worldwide
| number =
| updates =
| p_title =
| p_dates =
| ISSN =
| titles =
| website = {{Official URL}}
}}

'''ScienceDirect''' is a searchable web-based [[bibliographic database]], which provides access to full texts of [[Scientific literature|scientific]] and [[Medical literature|medical publications]] of the Dutch publisher [[Elsevier]] as well of several small [[academic publishing|academic publishers]]. It hosts over 18 million [[publications]] from more than 4,000 [[academic journal]]s and 30,000 [[e-books]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.sciencedirect.com/| title= ScienceDirect |access-date=17 February 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.relxgroup.com/investorcentre/reports%202007/Documents/2014/relxgroup_ar_2014.pdf|title=2014 RELX Annual Reports and Financial Statements|last=Reller|first=Tom|website=RELX Group|publisher=[[RELX Group]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150319005511/http://www.relxgroup.com:80/investorcentre/reports%202007/Documents/2014/relxgroup_ar_2014.pdf|archive-date=March 19, 2015|access-date=17 February 2016}}</ref> The access to the full-text requires subscription, while the bibliographic [[metadata]] are free to read. ScienceDirect was launched by Elsevier in March 1997.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://partners.nytimes.com/library/cyber/euro/030497euro.html |title=Building the World's Largest Scientific Database |work=[[New York Times]] |date=4 March 1997 |access-date=14 March 2014 |author=Giussani, Bruno}}</ref>

== Usage ==
The journals are grouped into four main sections:
*''[[Physical Sciences]] and [[Engineering]]''
*''[[Life Sciences]]''
*''[[Health Sciences]]''
*''[[Social science|Social Sciences]] and [[Humanities]]''.

[[Abstract (summary)|Article abstracts]] are freely available, and access to their full texts (in [[PDF]] and, for newer publications, also [[HTML]]) generally requires a subscription or [[pay-per-view]] purchase unless the content is freely available in open access.

Papers published under several [[open access]] licenses are available on ScienceDirect without cost. Access to the full-text pdfs of non-open access publications require either a subscription (to the specific journal rather than to the whole database) or per-article/book payment. Subscriptions to the overall content hosted on ScienceDirect, rather than to specific titles, are usually acquired through what is called a [[Big deal (subscription model)|big deal]]. The other [[Big Five (publishers)|big five publishers]] have similar offers.

ScienceDirect also competes for audience with other large [[Search aggregator|aggregators]] and hosts of [[scholarly communication]] content such as academic social network [[ResearchGate]] and [[open access repository]] [[arXiv]], as well as with fully [[open access]] publishing venues and [[mega journal]]s like [[PLOS]].

ScienceDirect also carries ''[[Cell (journal)|Cell]]''.

The search and bibliographic export options of ScienceDirect are very limited. For better search capabilities Elsevier provides via internet a [[Paywall|paid-access]] database [[Scopus]].

== See also ==
* [[List of academic databases and search engines]]
* [[Scopus]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== Further reading ==
* {{cite journal|doi=10.1007/s11192-015-1779-z|title=Relationships between consumption, publication and impact in French universities in a value perspective: A bibliometric analysis|year=2016|last1=Boukacem-Zeghmouri|first1=Chérifa|last2=Bador|first2=Pascal|last3=Lafouge|first3=Thierry|last4=Prost|first4=Hélène|journal=Scientometrics|volume=106|pages=263–280|s2cid=8897085|url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01272124/file/Article-ROI_Boukacem_Scientometrics2015%20corrected%20complet-1.pdf}}
* {{cite web|hdl=10760/19670|hdl-access=free|url=http://eprints.rclis.org/19670/|title=Usage data, e-journal selection and negotiations: Iranian consortium experience|date=2013|first1=Ebrahim|last1=Emrani|first2=A.|last2=Moradi-Salari|first3=Hamid R.|last3=Jamali}}
* {{cite journal|doi=10.1002/leap.1142|title=The Science ''Direct'' accessibility journey: A case study|year=2018|last1=Gies|first1=Ted|journal=Learned Publishing|volume=31|pages=69–76|doi-access=free}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website}}

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