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Introducing ScienceDirect

In 1580, the Elsevier Company was proposed when Lowys Elsevier started selling books to university students. This company is one of the first publishers of scientific journals and a description of academic events. Authors working with Elsevier have been among the distinguished figures of their time, including Scaliger, Galileo, Erasmus, and Descartes. The main branch of Elsevier Science is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

In addition, Elsevier is a leading multimedia publisher that publishes scientific, technical, and medical products and services all over the world. Elsevier provides more than 20,000 products and services, including journals, books, electronic products and services, and databases. Every year, it publishes more than 1600 journals and 1200 books. The main brands of Elsevier Science include Academic Press, Butterworth-Heinemann, Cell Press, Churchill-Livingstone, MDL, Engineering  Information, Excerpta Medica, The Lancet, MD consult, Mosby, North-Holland, Pergamon, ScienceDirect, and WB Saunders.

ScienceDirect is a leading electronic information service, which provides access to the full text of more than 1700 scientific, technical and medical journals. This database provides access to more than 59 million abstracts of scientific journals and articles of more than 120 publishers. However, according to the subscription of Tehran University, only articles published after 1999 can be accessed. Academic Press has been provided the information required by scientists, researchers, engineering and experts in industry and university in the past 60 years and contains more than 167,000 articles from about 250 journals.

Thematic areas of the database includes agriculture and biological sciences, arts and humanities, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, business, management and accounting, chemical engineering, chemistry, decision sciences, earth and planetary science, economics, econometrics and finance, energy, engineering, environment, immunology and microbiology, materials science, mathematics, medicine and dentistry, neuroscience, nursing, pharmacology, toxicology and pharmaceutical sciences, physics and astronomy, psychology, social sciences, veterinary and animal sciences

Membership in ScienceDirect

Given the fact that access to ScienceDirect is adjusted based in IP addresses, and there is no need for entering username and password, you can have access to facilities such as saving searches, creating a list of favorite journals (my favorite journals and book series), search alerts, journal issue alerts, and citation alerts, forming a search history, and combining the searches with each other by registering on ScienceDirect and creating a personal profile (My Profile). If you are a member, you can enter your username and password in the Register or Login box, and if you are not a member, you can click Register and complete the registration form by filling in the boxes of name, family name, email address, and password and selecting your favorite topics and clicking “done”. After that, the system provides you with a username, and you can click “login now” to use the facilities of the website.

  To use your profile, select “My Profile” from the top of the home page, where use can change your password and personal information, add/remove alerts, as explained in the alert section and create a list of favorite publications. By selecting the link of Remove Favorite Journals and Book Series, you can see the list of publications and your list of favorite publications and you can add or remove publications. However, there is another way to add a publication to your favorite list, which is explained in the Browse section.

Quick Search:

In quick search, you can enter a word or phrase in the search box, which leads to searching of all fields of Title, Abstract, Keywords, and Authors.

Basic Search:

Click “Search”

Select the header of All Sources to select your search source

Select the header of Basic from the right side of the page

Enter the word in all search boxes. Note that if you enter two words in each search box, it will be searched as a phrase. In basic search, you can select your desired field from the drop-down menu of “within”, which includes:

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In the initial search method, you can use AND, OR, AND NOT, as explained in the Operators section.

You can limit your search resources to journals, books, and abstracts.

You can determine your search subject; for example, you can select “dentistry and medicine” and select the topic with ctrl+click if it is desired to search for several subjects.

You can limit your search in term of time (e.g., since 2003).

Then, click “search.”