ScienceDirect is a website which provides access to a large bibliographic database of scientific and medical publications of the Dutch publisher Elsevier. It hosts over 18 million pieces of content from more than 4,000 academic journals and 30,000 e-books of this publisher.

Is ScienceDirect the same as Elsevier?

ScienceDirect () is a full-text scientific database which is part of SciVerse and is provided by the medical and scientific publishing company Elsevier. ScienceDirect refers to 2500 peer-reviewed journals and more than 11,000 books.

What type of source is ScienceDirect?

ScienceDirect is a full-text database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and 11,000 books. Older materials (back files) are available as archives for an additional charge.