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We’re here to help you make the most of your access
to ScienceDirect.
ScienceDirect offers researchers the latest in discovery ScienceDirect
technology to ensure that you can quickly and easily find the
information you need, as well as stay up to date on the latest Elsevier’s leading platform
developments in, and related, to your field. of peer-reviewed scholarly
literature.
Create a User Account
Search ScienceDirect combines
Get Recommendations authoritative, full-text scientific,
technical and health publications
Set Up Alerts
with smart, intuitive functionality so
Topic pages that users can stay informed in
Reading history their fields and can work more
Remote access effectively and efficiently.
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Create a User Account
Your account unlocks a range of customization and
research alert features that have been designed to support
your research goals (and its easy and free!)

With a few personal details, an account provides you with the ability to:

Set up alerts for Receive Manage your Access

search queries, recommendations reading history to ScienceDirect
journals and that are personal to ensure you can find remotely outside
book-series your search history useful articles again of your institutions
and signed-in activity when needed IP range Create an account now

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Search
Search ScienceDirect with precision and ease

ScienceDirect offers 1. Search broadly 2. Use Advanced Search

researchers 2 different or
and then filter to launch a narrow,
search techniques: pre-selective query

Use our search bar or “Quick Search” to search broadly

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Search
And subsequently filter
down the results

By Year

By Article Type

By Publication Type

By Access Type
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Our Advanced Search helps you narrow your focus from the start

Our Advanced Search supports

Boolean operators including:
AND, OR, AND NOT, NOT (-),

Nested clauses using parenthesis,

for example:
(((“heart attack” OR “myocardial
infarction” OR cardiac) AND
diabetes) OR ischemia)

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Get Recommendations

ScienceDirect Recommendations is a service that

sends registered, signed in visitors a weekly list of
recommended research content based on their
research interests.

All you need is a registered account and to

remember to stay signed in when you search on
ScienceDirect. Our recommender algorithms sift
through our database and suggest tailored content that
might otherwise be missed.

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Set Up Alerts Managing your alerts
Set up alerts for the latest research —
by journal, book series or search queries

Alerts differ from personal recommendations in that you

are only alerted when NEW research that meets YOUR
criteria becomes available.

Recommendations, by contrast, include all research –

regardless of publication date, that met the relevancy
criteria determined by our recommender engine.

For more info on how to set up and manage

alerts, visit our tutorial here.

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Discover contextual information 1 2
ScienceDirect Topics helps researchers uncover critical
and contextual information within their workflow

• Each topic page provides authoritative introductory

3
overviews to help researchers, academics and
students understand and interpret scientific literature

• ScienceDirect Topics enables quick onboarding to novel

subject areas during interdisciplinary research and
offers an easy, interactive tool for students learning a
new concept or understanding a journal article

1 Short definition

2 Related Terms

3 Excerpts from relevant

book content

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Topics pages
ScienceDirect Topics uniquely applies cutting-edge technologies to content within the
research workflow
Topic pages link narrow, specialized knowledge of journal content, which can be difficult to
understand for researchers new to the specialized field, with both the quick overview of the journal
content’s topic and with the more general Book content.

Data Science Technologies

Topic Pages
• Data-mining
• Taxonomy building
• Algorithmic information extraction
• Relevancy ranking
• Quality confirmation
Book Content

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Manage your
reading history
Keep track of what you have been reading, so
you can find useful articles again when needed.

When signed in, the Reading History feature saves the 100
most recent articles you have viewed. You can then review,
save and delete items or download the full list of entries.
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Integrated with Mendeley
Looking for an easy way to store references and collaborate with others?
Manage, organize and connect around books and journals with Mendeley, seamlessly embedded in ScienceDirect

Mendeley is a reference manager ...and an academic social network …forming a crowdsourced database
allowing you to manage, read, share, with 3 million users to connect like- with a unique layer of social research
annotate and cite your research minded researchers & discover information and an Open API
papers... research trends and statistics…

Quickly export your Book chapters and journal articles into Mendeley from ScienceDirect*

*See OnlineBooksConnect article for more information:

https://onlinebooksconnect.elsevier.com/articles/how-to-export-book-chapters-and-reference-to-mendeley

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Remote access
Access ScienceDirect anytime, anywhere
Whether you're on your laptop, tablet, or phone, at home or on the road, on campus or off,
you can keep your research going by registering today for remote access to ScienceDirect.

Remember, the next time you're off campus you can always (detailed instructions here):

1. Click on "Remote access" in the 2. Follow the instructions to enter your institutional 3. We'll send you an email; click on the "Activate my
footer on any ScienceDirect page. email address (e.g., [email protected]) and remote access now" link and your remote access is
select your organization from the drop-down menu. all set. (If you are not registered in ScienceDirect,
the registration page displays)

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Find a journal or book to submit to
The Browse page and Journal and Books homepages features make browsing through
your favorite content easier, including finding the right publication to publish in:

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ScienceDirect APIs
Support large-scale data mining for government and
academic research institutions

Use ScienceDirect APIs to retrieve and integrate full-text

content from publications on ScienceDirect into your own
website or applications.

Anyone can obtain an API key and use our APIs free of
charge, provided that our policies are honored.

ScienceDirect subscribers are granted full access to

ScienceDirect APIs. If you do not have a ScienceDirect
subscription, you can still use our APIs; however, you will
have limited access to basic metadata and basic search
functionality, yet full access to all open access content.

Learn more about the key settings data available to you

and start developing today.

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Find Help & Support Visit the ScienceDirect Support Center
You can also learn about the latest product updates
While we strive to make ScienceDirect easy and intuitive to
use, you might have questions. Our Customer Support
Center has answers to your frequently asked questions,
information on the latest product updates, video tutorials
and other how-to guides.

You can access the Customer Support Hub, by clicking the

“?” Button in the upper right corner of ScienceDirect pages.

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Find Help & Support
Contact Us
While we strive to make ScienceDirect easy and intuitive to use, sometimes help is required. Our customer support team
is here to help and you can contact us various ways.

Learn about the latest platform updates here

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