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MIT Libraries Provide Access to Extensive List of Full Text Journals through ScienceDirect

Ruth K. Seidman
Communications Coordinator, MIT Libraries
rks@mit.edu, 617-253-5686
November 1, 2000

Do not be misled by the name ScienceDirect—beyond science, this resource also encompasses journals in engineering, economics, business, and management.

A recent addition to the growing list of electronic resources made available to the MIT community through the Libraries is ScienceDirect from Elsevier Science. This product provides a way of looking up articles by title, author, or subject, as well as the full text of the articles.

ScienceDirect provides access to more than 1,100 Elsevier journals in chemistry, materials science, engineering disciplines, environmental science, economics, business and management, neurosciences, pharmacology and toxicology, physics, mathematics and computer science, earth sciences, biochemistry, microbiology and immunology, biological sciences, and clinical medicine.

Examples of journal titles in science and engineering are: Biochimica et Biophysical Acta, Topology, Brain Research, Aircraft Design, and Biomaterials. Economics Letters, Energy Policy, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Monetary Economics, Research Policy, and World Development are some titles in other fields.

Beyond the Elsevier journals, the database also facilitates searching the publications of societies such as the American College of Cardiologists, the Federation of European Biochemical Societies, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, CRC Press, ASM International, the Royal Society of Medicine, and the International Brain Research Organization.

ScienceDirect has many powerful features. You can browse through tables of contents and you can search by author, title, keyword, or date in a single journal, or across all journal titles, or across a subset of journals. You can save a search to run it again at a future time and you can save a search as an Alert and be notified by email as new articles on your topic are added to the database.

By following the instructions on the Libraries’ web site, members of the MIT community can gain access to the full text of all of the journals in ScienceDirect, whether or not the MIT Libraries currently subscribes to a particular title.

ScienceDirect also navigates from articles listed in cited references to other articles within the ScienceDirect database. This means that many of the footnotes in an article are hyperlinked so that it is easy to move from the footnote of one article to the actual article that is cited.

For web access, go to Vera, or to the ScienceDirect web site.
Further information is available from Michael Noga at the Science Library, mnoga@mit.edu, x3-1290, and from any of the library subject experts.