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About the ScienceDirect Database

The following quick-start guide has been created for CSUN students and researchers. For more information on using ScienceDirect, consult Science Direct Online Help.

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Description

Scope

ScienceDirect® (Elsevier) has over 1700 science and social science journals published by Elsevier, Academic Press, and several other publishers; full text from 1998- as well as abstracts of hundreds of journal articles from partner publishers.

Journals

The Journals selection gives the opportunity to browse the journal titles either alphabetically or by category.

Restrictions and Software Requirements

CSUN users (student, faculty and staff) only

Search tips

Search

Offers a keyword search.

Search tips and Help

Gives extensive tips on refining searches.

Source

Selections are

• All journals and abstracts database
• Subscribed Journals

Subscribed journals

Choosing Subscribed journals will retrieve records that have full text articles.

The truncation symbols are

• ! unlimited characters at end of word
• * single character

Special Features

• When viewing an individual article, click the Cited By link on the right to find other articles in the database that cite the article you are viewing.
• When viewing an individual article, you can find articles that cite that article's references by clicking the Cited by in Scopus link at the end of each reference citation.