Welcome to your latest UniSkills Focus On… blog, we’re glad you can join us again this month as we explore a very useful resource called ScienceDirect.
What does ScienceDirect offer?
ScienceDirect is produced by Elsevier, the largest academic publisher in the world. To give you an idea of how large they are in 2020 they published 16% of all published academic content!
ScienceDirect is an important database for finding academic research, containing thousands of journals and academic books. Despite its name ScienceDirect covers more than the sciences, including:
- Physical Sciences and Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Chemistry
- Computer Science
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Energy
- Engineering
- Materials Science
- Mathematics
- Physics and Astronomy
- Life Sciences
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
- Environmental Science
- Immunology and Microbiology
- Neuroscience
- Health Sciences
- Medicine and Dentistry
- Nursing and Health Professions
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science
- Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine
- Social Sciences and Humanities
- Arts and Humanities
- Business, Management and Accounting
- Decision Sciences
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance
- Psychology
- Social Sciences
What are the benefits of using ScienceDirect?
ScienceDirect‘s wide subject coverage means that it is an excellent source of academic journal articles for lots of different courses. If you’re studying Nursing, Medicine. Biology, Geography and Geology, Computer Science, Psychology, Business and Economics, Social Sciences, Education, Linguistics, Engineering and more, then ScienceDirect will have lots of useful academic research for you.
This is backed up by Elsevier’s reputation for high publishing standards, meaning that the academic research you find in ScienceDirect is of a high quality that you can trust.
How to access Science Direct
There are several ways you can access ScienceDirect:
- Click on any ScienceDirect link throughout this blog
- Search Discover More for ScienceDirect
- Visit your Subject Resources pages and access the Additional Resources tab (in any subject) to find a link to ScienceDirect
Further Help and Support
Remember, if you need any further help or support finding, accessing, or getting the most out of your resources head over to the UniSkills web pages. From here you can access lots more information, toolkits and video tutorials, book on a UniSkills Workshop and even book a one-to-one appointment.
Don’t forget to join us next month, when we will be taking a exploring Gale Power Search.
