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.

What is the difference between Elsevier and ScienceDirect?

ScienceDirect and Scopus use two different databases. ScienceDirect contains full text articles from journals and books, primarily published by Elsevier, but including some hosted societies. Scopus indexes metadata from abstracts and references of thousands of publishers, including Elsevier.

Is Elsevier part of ScienceDirect?

ScienceDirect is one of the subsidiaries of Elsevier, the world's largest scientific publisher. ... Over 900,000 articles on ScienceDirect are open access. Articles published open access are peer-reviewed and made freely available for everyone to read, download and reuse.