ScienceDirect Through SciVerse: A New Way To Approach Elsevier

Abstract

SciVerse is the new combined portal from Elsevier that services their ScienceDirect collection, SciTopics, and their Scopus database. Using SciVerse to access ScienceDirect is the specific focus of this review. Along with advanced keyword searching and citation searching options, SciVerse also incorporates a very useful image search feature. The aim seems to be not only to create an interface that provides broad functionality on par with other database search tools that many searchers use regularly but also to create an open platform that could be changed to respond effectively to the needs of customers.

KEYWORDS:

• Citation searching
• database searching
• Elsevier
• product evaluation
• ScienceDirect
• SciVerse

Notes

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