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'''ScienceDirect''' is a website which provides subscription-based access to a large database of scientific and medical research. It hosts over 1218 million pieces of content from 3more than 4,500000 [[academic journal]]s and 3430,000 [[e-books]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.sciencedirect.com/| title= ScienceDirect |accessdate=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|date=|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|accessdate=17 February 2016}}</ref>

The journals are grouped into four main sections: ''Physical Sciences and Engineering'', ''Life Sciences'', ''Health Sciences'', and ''Social Sciences and Humanities''. Article abstracts are freely available, butand access to their full texts (in [[PDF]] and, for newer publications, also [[HTML]]) generally requires a subscription or [[pay-per-view]] purchase unless the content is freely available in open access.