Searching ScienceDirect for a Topic

ScienceDirect is a database of science and social science journals published by the Elsevier Publishing Company. Libraries often subscribe to ScienceDirect through consortia. By doing so, members can get full-text electronic access to journals owned by any one of the consortium members. For John Jay, as part of CUNY & SUNY consortia, this gives us access to over 1,500 full-text journals covering the years 1997 to present.

To access ScienceDirect, navigate to the Library’s Home Page & click on Electronic Information Sources. Then click “S” on the alphabetical list at bottom of page.

Review your list of results

The bibliographic citation will be provided as well as links to full-text

Print, Save, Email your results

Result List - Entire list or a selected list can be printed or emailed. To create a selected list, check box preceding desired items. Then click Display Checked Docs link at top of list.

PDF Full-text articles - When you click on the PDF link, you will be prompted to open document or save it. Once open, the article can be printed using the print icon on the Adobe Acrobat Toolbar.

   - [Do not use the web browser print icon!!]

HTML Full-text articles
   - To save, click File/Save As from web browser toolbar.
   - To print, click printer icon or File/Print from web browser toolbar.
          To see how many pages will print, click File/Print Preview.
   - To email, citations along with a direct web link to the full-text of an article, can be emailed by clicking on E-mail Article link from green box on right.

Exporting Citations - Entire result list or a customized result list can be exported from ScienceDirect and imported into your own bibliographic management software for further reference. John Jay is experimenting with such software called Refworks. Ask at the Reference Desk for more information on getting an account.

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