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SciVerse ScienceDirect is Elsevier’s peer-reviewed, full text database
containing more than 14,000 electronic book titles and more than 2,500
electronic journal titles covering the fields of science, technology and
medicine. In addition to key word searches, the image search and value
added content associated with the publication can be found in the form
of audio, video and datasets.
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1. Search for an Article
Easily search full-text documents and/or images with Quick Search. In addition, by using SciVerse Hub it is now possible to search across
all SciVerse products and web content.
Searching by Keyword
1 Quick Search
Enter a search term and click Search ScienceDirect.
See the box on p.7 for search term entry rules.
- All fields 	 - Author
- Journal / Book title	 - Volume / Issue / Page
2 Advanced Search
Go to the Search page and use the Advanced search window to
carry out a search with restricted search items (article title, affiliation
name, etc) or source types (journals, books, etc.), or when using the
search history.
3 Search with SciVerse Hub
SciVerse Hub allows searches across all SciVerse products
and web content.
Checking Search Results
1 Search Results
Displays the number of search results and the search conditions.
2 Search Alert
Set to alert you via e-mail (Save as search alert) or
RSS (RSS feed) when a new article that matches your search
conditions is listed. (Requires login).
3 Refine
Refine your search results by entering additional search terms in the
Search within results field. In the Refine results field you can either
limit (Limit to) or exclude (Exclude) by specific source type, title, topic,
or publication year.
4 Sorting Option
By default, search results are listed by relevance. You can change this
to listing by date.
5 Access Rights
means available for your institution in full text and means
abstracts only (non-subscribed content).
6 Display Article Pages
Clicking the article title will display the article pages (HTML full text
or abstract).
7 Export Citations Information
From Export citations, export the selected article to a document
management program. See the middle box on p.5.
8 Batch Download of PDFs
From Download multiple PDFs, download full-text PDFs of the
selected articles all at once, and automatically name them. See the box
on the top of p.5.
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Searching for Images
1 Image Search
Selecting Images in Quick Search allows you to limit your search
targets to images (illustrations, tables, video).
2 Refine
Limit the search to a specific image type in the Refine Image results field.
3 Enlarge View
Holding the mouse over the image will enlarge the image view.
Holding the mouse over the caption will display the bibliographic
information and the caption.
4 Display Full Text
Please click View within article.
Methods Search Application
Use the Methods Search application in SciVerse Hub and search the
Methods section of the full text available on SciVerse ScienceDirect.
Efficiently search for related documents when planning your experiments
or at any other stage in the research process.
Matching Sentences Application
The Matching Sentences application is displayed on the top right of the
SciVerse Hub search results. It displays sentences that the search terms
have found and allows you to quickly access the appropriate content.
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Searching with SciVerse Hub
SciVerse Hub enables combined searches of SciVerse ScienceDirect and SciVerse Scopus (subscribers only), and quality web sources.
In addition, by SciVerse Hub you can carry out special searches that meet your particular needs as a researcher and scientist.
1 Article Display Format
Display the article as Article (HTML full text), Abstract, Figures /
Tables, References, or PDF (as a bound volume).
2 Author Information
Check the corresponding author and the author’s e-mail address.
3 Supplementary Content
Audio, video or any other file provided by the author – in addition to the
article itself can be viewed in the Supplementary content for this Article
field.
4 Related Articles
Articles in ScienceDirect that are closely related to this article are shown
in the Related Articles field.
5 Citations in Other Documents
The latest three documents to cite this article are displayed in the
Cited by field. It is also possible to display all the articles on SciVerse
Scopus. If you are not a SciVerse Scopus subscriber then you can
display the most recent twenty.
SciVerse Scopus, provided by Elsevier, is the world’s largest
bibliographic and citation database. It stores over 18,500 journals from
more than 5,000 publishers around the world.
6 Related Reference Works
Encyclopedia articles in ScienceDirect closely related to this article are
displayed in the Related reference work articles field.
7 Added value from other datasets
Keywords extracted with the Life Science Database from NextBio are
displayed in the Relevant terms from this article field. Providing you the
context around the content ScienceDirect provides relevant information
directly in connection to the article.
NextBio (www.nextbio.com) provides various integrated public resources
(PubMed, clinical trial results, experimental data, news, researcher
information, etc.) in the life sciences fields.
8 Highlight Keywords menu
Full texts in the life sciences fields will have the NextBio keywords
highlighted by default. Selecting Reflect from the Highlight keywords
dropdown menu allows you to switch between highlighting of the
keywords using the Reflect dictionary.
Reflect is an application developed by the European Molecular Biology
Laboratory and highlights words within a web page that are related
to proteins, genes, and so on. Clicking the highlighted words displays
additional related information.
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2.	Check Article Pages
HTML full texts provide a number of additional functions not found in PDF full texts. It is possible, for example, to check for video or audio playback,
display of related articles, use SciVerse Scopus to check for other documents citing this article.
Selecting from the Journal / Book Title List
1 Browse Titles
Selecting the Browse menu displays the journal / book title list.
2 Access Rights
means available for your institution in full text (includes free
publications) and means abstracts only (non-subscribed content).
3 Change Browse Method
Change the way the title list is displayed from alphabetic to by
field or to by favorites.
4 Refine Title List
Limit the title list to full text journals, abstracts, books,
or reference works.
5 Display Journal / Book Homepage
Clicking on the title will display the table of contents page for that title’s
latest issue.
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3.	Reading an Article from the Title List
Read an article by selecting the title of the journal or book. You can also read articles before they are published by selecting
Articles in Press, or set up an alert to let you know when the latest issue is published.
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Reading the Index from the Journal / Book Homepage
1 Volume List
By default, the table of contents for the latest issue is displayed.
You can also look via Articles in Press.
2 Access Rights
means available for your institution in full text (includes free
publications) and means abstracts only (non-subscribed content).
3 Display Article Page
Clicking the article title will display the article page (HTML full text
or abstract).
4 Export Bibliographic Information
From Export citations, you can export the selected article to a
document management program. See p.5.
5 Batch Download of PDFs
Download multiple full-text PDFs of the selected articles all at once, and
automatically name them. See p.5.
6 Volume/Issue Alert
You can be alerted by e-mail (Alert me about new volumes / issues)
or RSS (New Article Feed) when the latest issue of a given title is
listed. (Requires login)
7 Favorites
Register your favorites with Add to Favorites. (Requires login).
8 Journal Information
From About this Journal, you can check different sorts of
information about a given journal, such as scope, editorial committee,
impact factor, and so on.
9 Online Submission
From Submit your Article you can be linked to the online
submission system.
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User Registration and Login
1 Login
If you already have a user name and password then click Login and
enter them in the login box.
If you check Remember me, your login information will be stored in
your computer and you will be permanently logged in.
If you have forgotten your password, click Forgotten your username
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2 User Registration
To register as a new user, click Register. Enter the required information,
such as your name and e-mail address, in the registration window.
To have access to subscribed content outside of your institution, you
can easily set up a self remote access account. Select the remote
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3 Username
Your username will be displayed when registration is complete.
It may have a number added to it in case someone with the same
full name has already registered.
4.	Using Personal Functions
If you register as a user, you will be able to use a number of convenient personal functions such as e-mail alerts. Your username and password
are the same as for SciVerse Scopus, so you only need a single sign-on.
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Online Submission
Submit articles online using the Elsevier Editorial System (EES).
It lists information about each journal, the submission standards,
support information, etc.
E-mail: authorsupport@elsevier.com
Export Citations
Export bibliographic information
Export as RIS format (for document management programs such as
EndNote), RefWorks, ASCII format (text), and BibTeX format.
If you are using RefWorks, you can link seamlessly by embedding your
RefWorks ID/PW in the My settings menu.
Download PDF
Batch Download and Automatic Naming
Download multiple PDF files and assign them names based on specified
rules. The file names can be specified from a combination of author,
publication year, article title, journal, etc.
The maximum number of files you can download at one time is 20.
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History, Changing Passwords, Checking Alerts
1 Logout
When you log in, your name will be displayed at the top right corner of
the window. Click Logout to log out. If you clicked Remember me
when you logged in, then close the browser window without logging out.
2 History
You can easily return to recent results in the Recent Actions
field as past activity is recorded there.
3 Favorites
Titles you have registered as favorites are displayed in the
Favorite Journals / Books field.
4 Change Individual Settings / Password
You can change your e-mail address, e-mail format (HTML / text),
number of results shown per page, RefWorks ID/PW, password,
and so on from the My settings menu.
5 Check Registered Alerts
You can manage the list of registered e-mail alerts from the
My alerts menu.
- Search Alert
- Topic Alert
- Volume/Issue Alert
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Rules for Entering Search Terms
1 General Rules
	 - Not case sensitive
	 - Entering singular nouns will also search for plural nouns and
possessives (with some exceptions)
	 - Entering search terms using either US or UK spellings will
search for both (with some exceptions).
2 Phrase Search
	 - Multiple words set off by spaces will be processed with the
AND operator.
	 - To search as a phrase, enclose it in double quote marks or
curly brackets.
	 - Double quotes will search for fuzzy phrases. It will also
search for both singular and plurals / American and British
English (with some exceptions). Symbols are ignored.
Wildcards can be used.
“heart-attack” will search for heart-attack, heart attack,
heart attacks, and so on.
	 - Curly brackets will search for a specific phrase. It limits the
search to only the specified character string, and symbols can
be used.
{heart-attack} will only search for heart-attack.
3 Wildcards
	 - * replaces any number of characters.
toxi* will search for toxin, toxic, toxicity, toxicology, etc.
	 - ? replaces only one character.
sawt??th will search for sawtooth and sawteeth.
4 Logical operators and proximity operators
	 - AND Searches for articles containing both words.
food AND poison
	 - OR Searches for articles containing either or both words.
weather OR climate
	 - AND NOT Searches for articles that do not contain the
following word. tumor AND NOT malignant
	 - W/n Restricts to n words between the two words.
The word order is not set. Pain W/5 morphine
	 - PRE/n Restricts to n words between the two words.
The word order is as set. newborn PRE/3 screening
	Operator priority order (it is possible to change the priority order
by using parentheses)
	 1. OR 2. W/n or PRE/n 3. AND 4. AND NOT
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