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ScienceDirect LibGuide: Journals & Books

Journal facts

  • Extensive full-text database of authoritative titles from core scientific literature
  • Highly cited titles such as The Lancet, Cell and Tetrahedron
  • Advanced access to peer-reviewed articles accepted for publication (Articles in Press)
  • Different levels of knowledge from review articles to new cutting edge articles

Book facts

  • eBooks are on ScienceDirect alongside journals to support an uninterrupted research workflow
    • Discoverable through the search functionality or through 350,000+ ScienceDirect topic pages
  • Elsevier eBooks have the highest relative citation impact among major book publishers in Scopus at 2.5 (based on 2020 Elsevier analysis of Scopus data on publishers that contribute >1% of indexed books with publication date 2015-19)