In its continuing efforts to provide Library users with full-text access to journal articles, the Library recently subscribed to the electronic resource service ScienceDirectlink removed. This online service, which is accessible from any computer in the LSUHSC campus domain, gives users access to full-text of approximately 150 journals published by Elsevier to which the Library subscribes. Additionally, users can also view the tables of contents and abstracts of over 1,200 Elsevier titles. A class on how to use ScienceDirect will be offered later this Fall.

Some of the features users will find in using the ScienceDirect service:
Full-text articles in HTML and PDF formats
Ability to search full-text of articles available in HTML
Ability to search across ScienceDirect's entire abstract database
Browsing of Tables of Contents and Abstracts for over 1,200 Elsevier titles
Ability to save and re-execute searches
Alert service notifying users when new articles matching search criteria are added to the database
Links from Reference lists in articles to the full-text of cited articles
SummaryPlus feature offers timesaving article outlines including an abstract, hyperlinks to references, and thumbnail images and tables

To access ScienceDirect, go directly to www.sciencedirect.com, or follow the links from the Library's homepage (click on Additional Search Systems link, then find ScienceDirect in left-hand frame). Once at the ScienceDirect site, click the green "group-wide login" button (), at the next screen click on Browse () and then use the pull-down menus to sort by Title and by Subscribed Journals. This allows access to the list of titles for which the Library has full-text coverage; the subscription includeds a rolling four years plus the current year. The full database of abstracts may be searched at any time.

In addition to ScienceDirect, the Library also subscribes to other full-text services such as the IDEAL Librarylink removed, which provides full-text for Academic Press, Mosby, Saunders, and other publishers; and Synergylink removed, which provides full-text of Blackwell Science & Munskgaard journal titles. Numerous other individual publisher websites also provide online full-text. To see a full list of print and electronic titles available through the Library, check the Library's catalog, Innopaclink removed. To see a list of only those titles that are available electronically, check the Electronic Access to Journalslink removed page.

-- Beth Oliver
eolive@lsuhsc.edulink removed