Frequently Asked Questions

How can I receive a user name and password to access articles from ScienceDirect?

ScienceDirect is a subscription service offering access to the Elsevier journal collection (over 2,000 titles), along with journals from a host of prestigious societies and STM publishers. Your librarian should be able to provide you with access to ScienceDirect. If your institute does not subscribe to ScienceDirect, check with your librarian if your institute subscribes to ScienceDirect Web Editions. Designed to provide desktop access to the full text of most Elsevier journals in print subscribed holdings, ScienceDirect Web Editions offers the most basic form of electronic access available on the ScienceDirect platform. Elsevier Academic, Governmental and Corporate institutional print customers are offered a special service. At no extra cost, ScienceDirect® Web Editions is provided as a value-add service to institutional print subscribers.

For further information please visit http://www.info.sciencedirect.com/licensing_options/web_editions/

Is Scirus free?

There is no charge for using Scirus. This means you can search across over 250 million science-related pages from the Web for free. In addition, Scirus shows search results from journal sources and preferred web sources (such as patent offices and institutional repositories). You may need a subscription or online registration to access some of the journal information. For more details please go to the Advanced Search page, where you will find a list of each of the sources indexed in Scirus.

I have just submitted a Web site via Submit Web site. How will I know if my site has been accepted?

While the Scirus index is refreshed frequently, we invite you to wait one month after submitting your Web site to see if your site has been accepted for inclusion in the index. Please be aware that in order to be included, your Web site must contain science-related information and allow access to the Scirus Web crawler.