Elsevier Science, one of the major publishers in the world today, publishes journals in the areas of science (biology, chemistry, computer science, earth sciences, engineering, environmental sciences, mathematics, medicine, and physics), economics, business and management, and social and behavioral sciences. Adding online access to the full-text of over 750 Elsevier journals via ScienceDirect, therefore, represents a significant addition to UB's digital resources. Online coverage spans 1997 to the present.

A consortial licensing arrangement through SUNYConnect means that we now can access online all of the Elsevier journals that we currently receive in the UB libraries, plus the online versions of any Elsevier journal subscribed to at the other 64 SUNY campuses, including the University Centers at Albany, Binghamton, and Stony Brook.

Major features of ScienceDirect include unlimited access for any number of simultaneous users across SUNY; access to more than 1.3 million full-text research articles; e-mail delivery of tables of contents for new issues as they are published; e-mail delivery of the results of stored searches run against the database; ability to browse issues alphabetically by journal title or search articles by author, title, or keyword in abstracts; and the capability to export search results to citation management programs such as ProCite, EndNote and Reference Manager.

You can access ScienceDirect through the University Libraries' "Databases By Title" page at http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/cgi-test/title.cgi or connect directly from http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/ScienceDirect.html.

Click on the "Group-wide Login" icon to begin, then select either the "Browse" or "Search" tab. The legend at the top of the page will help you to determine which journals are available to us in full text. Note that we now have access to most, but not all, Elsevier titles. If you wish to search just those we have full-text access to, you can change the "Display" default setting to "Subscribed Journals."

To take advantage of ScienceDirect's special features, click on "Personal Login" and set up a profile that will allow you to customize your Elsevier journal list and request e-mail alerts based on your specifications.

ScienceDirect is funded by the University Libraries, with collaborative support from the SUNYConnect initiative. The current contract, which runs for three years, was negotiated by SUNYConnect.