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ScienceDirect

Logo: Elsevier, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Website for accessing scientific and medical publications

ScienceDirect is a searchable web-based bibliographic database, which provides access to full texts of scientific and medical publications of the Dutch publisher Elsevier as well of several small academic publishers. It hosts over 18 million publications from more than 4,000 academic journals and 30,000 e-books.2 From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 19, 2026.

Overview

Mar 1997Founded1

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ScienceDirect is a searchable web-based bibliographic database, which provides access to full texts of scientific and medical publications of the Dutch publisher Elsevier as well of several small academic publishers. It hosts over 18 million publications from more than 4,000 academic journals and 30,000 e-books. Access to full-texts requires a subscription, while the bibliographic metadata is publicly available. ScienceDirect was launched by Elsevier in March 1997.2

Subsidiaries and ownership

Owners

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Timeline

  1. Mar 1997Founded Founded1

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