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'''ScienceDirect''' is a website which provides access to a large [[bibliographic database]] of scientific and medical publications of the British publisher [[Elsevier]]. It hosts over 18 million pieces of content from more than 4,000 [[academic journal]]s and 30,000 [[e-books]] of this publisher.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.sciencedirect.com/| title= ScienceDirect |access-date=17 February 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.relxgroup.com/investorcentre/reports%202007/Documents/2014/relxgroup_ar_2014.pdf|title=2014 RELX Annual Reports and Financial Statements|last=Reller|first=Tom|website=RELX Group|publisher=[[RELX Group]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150319005511/http://www.relxgroup.com:80/investorcentre/reports%202007/Documents/2014/relxgroup_ar_2014.pdf|archive-date=March 19, 2015|access-date=17 February 2016}}</ref> The access to the full-text requires subscription, while the bibliographic metadata is free to read.
ScienceDirect is operated by the British-Dutch publisher [[Elsevier]]. It was launched in March 1997.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://partners.nytimes.com/library/cyber/euro/030497euro.html |title=Building the World's Largest Scientific Database |work=[[New York Times]] |date=4 March 1997 |access-date=14 March 2014 |author=Giussani, Bruno}}</ref>
 
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ScienceDirect also competes for audience with other large aggregators and hosts of [[scholarly communication]] content such as academic social network [[ResearchGate]] and [[open access repository]] [[arXiv]], as well as with fully [[open access]] publishing venues and [[megajournal]]s like [[PLOS]].
 
== Background ==
ScienceDirect is operated by the British-Dutch publisher [[Elsevier]]. It was launched in March 1997.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://partners.nytimes.com/library/cyber/euro/030497euro.html |title=Building the World's Largest Scientific Database |work=[[New York Times]] |date=4 March 1997 |access-date=14 March 2014 |author=Giussani, Bruno}}</ref>
 
== See also ==