Searching Mechanism of ScienceDirect
Overview
For researchers, educators, students, medical professionals, and information professionals, ScienceDirect is Elsevier's top information resource. It blends intelligent, user-friendly features with reputable, full-text scientific, technical, and health periodicals to help you stay updated in your industry and perform more productively.Become more knowledgeable, competent, and efficient to enhance research, teaching, or studies and have a bigger influence on work. With the help of ScienceDirect's services, can accomplish more than previously believed.One can browse through a wide range of excellent journal articles, book chapters, and supplemental information using ScienceDirect to help learn and explore, keeping informed about changes that affect the area.
SEARCH MECHANISM OF ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect is,in essence, a vast electronic repository offering access via subscription to a very large base of science and medical research.It currently holds the world's largest electronic collection of full-text and bibliographic information about science,technology, and medicine.ScienceDirect contains substantial profits of Elsevier, the world's largest scientific publisher, an Anglo-Dutch publishing company,which operates it.The launch of ScienceDirect took place in March 1997.It includes more than 15 million scientific articles.There are over 900,000 articles in ScienceDirect that are open access.Articles published open access are peer-reviewed and freely available to everyone for reading,downloading,and reusing.Abstracts of articles are freely accessible,but complete texts(in PDF and,for more recent publications,HTML)are typically only available with a membership or pay-per-view purchase.there are many articles and journals on the humanities and social sciences,even though ScienceDirect's primary focus is on the basic,technical, and medical science.
In the sections that follow, the specifics of ScienceDirect's search procedures will be discussed, along with an analysis of how these components work together to create an exceptional research experience.We'll examine the unique characteristics of the search engine and how ScienceDirect varies from other research resources.
How do we search in ScienceDirect?
Searching in ScienceDirect is simple and efficient, thanks to its user-friendly search tools and advanced filters. Here’s how user can perform a search:
Fig:User interface for ScienceDirect
Search Interface
- Basic Search: In the search bar at the top, type search terms (e.g., keywords, topic, or author name).After clicking search button Results will be displayed, showing articles, journals, books, and other content that match the search terms.
Advance Search:Advance search gives the flexibility of defining search normally across multi-dimentional fields such as:
- Keywords-Finding documents with these words in the title,abstract, or full text.
- Authors:Searching for particular authors or reasearchers.
- Affiliations:Defining results to particular journals.
- Publication date:Limiting the findings by the year or range.
- Document type:Filtering type of the document's articles,category such as research article,review,book chapter,etc.
- After setting the parameters,user can click on the search tab for resuls in the refined language.
- Filter:Locating search filter options located on the left hand side of the page can be done by:-
-Table of content::Articles,reviews,book chapters,and so on are available.
-Publication Year:Time periods can narrow results.
-Subject Area:Fields of health,engineering,physical sciences,etc.
_Open Access:Only view articles open access.
- Sorting Result: User can sort search results by relevance or newest to find the most relevant or latest publications.
- Using Boolean Operators: For more precise searches, user can use Boolean operators such as:
- AND: Combine multiple terms (e.g., "machine learning AND data analysis").
- OR: Find either of the terms (e.g., "cancer OR oncology").
- NOT: Exclude a term (e.g., "climate change NOT global warming").
- Quotation marks (""): Search for exact phrases (e.g., "artificial intelligence").
- Explore Journal and Articles: User can browse content directly by clicking on the Journals or Books tabs. Choose a specific subject area to see related journals and articles
After clicking on the tab list of journals and books will show in alphabetic order.
- Viewing Results: Click on any search result to access the article’s abstract. If user have access (through subscription or open access), user can read the full text or download the article. User can also find citation information and related articles on the article page.
- Personalise Tool: Create an account on ScienceDirect to save the searches, set alerts for new articles, and create a personal library for future reference.
References
https://www.sciencedirect.com/
https://www.elsevier.com/en-in/products/sciencedirect