LibGuides: Science: ScienceDirect

What is ScienceDirect?

ScienceDirect is a database of high-quality, peer-reviewed scientific and social sciences journal articles. St. Louis Community College Libraries subscribe to one section of ScienceDirect, the Health and Life Sciences journal collection. It includes the full text of articles from 1200+ journals such as The Lancet, Nursing Outlook, and Journal of the American Dietetic Association. Many open access journal articles are also included, along with citations and abstracts for thousands of other journals.

Why Use ScienceDirect?

Use ScienceDirect to

search a large database of scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles.
find original research. Original research articles are labeled.
find research articles in biology and related subjects (such as medicine, zoology, botany, microbiology, biomedicine, biophysics and agricultural sciences)
find research articles in other fields including psychology (especially animal behavior), chemistry, and physical sciences. A few social science journals are also included.

Link to ScienceDirect

ScienceDirect
High-quality, peer-reviewed journal articles in physical science and engineering, health sciences, life sciences, and social sciences and humanities.

ScienceDirect includes more than 2000 journal titles in the collections Health Sciences, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Engineering, and Social Sciences and Humanities. These journals are exclusive to ScienceDirect and not available anywhere else online.

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Faculty: Use this URL within Blackboard: http://ezproxy.stlcc.edu/login?auth=ezpr0xy&url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/college/search

Searching

Since this is such a large database, it's easy to be overwhelmed by the sheer number of articles returned by a search. Here are a few tips to make sure you get the best results.

1) Be specific! Use scientific names and terminology.

2) Limit your search to "Subscribed publications" and "Open Access articles" (under Refine your search)

3) You can also limit your search to a subset of journals that focus on a discipline or subject. Scroll through the list under "All Sciences" to see the choices.

4) Limit by publication date.