ScienceDirect is not strange to us. If you want to find more about it, you can click here(ScienceDirect Info site). When your university buy the database of ScienceDirect, you can download many valuable papers and books. There are more than 2500 Journals and 6000 books. What you can download is determinated by the right of your university. According to the author's knowledge, most of the university in China can download the paper from 1995 to present, and have no right to book.
Besides the above, there are much free information. Now I list some of the useful imformation as follows:
I think the Top25 is one of the most useful tool, by which You can know what is top 25 attentional papers in big class, such as Engineering and Physics, also top 25 papers of a certain journal, such as Microelectronics and JMPS. Now you can keep track of the latest trends and developments in your speciality with ScienceDirect's TOP25. The TOP25 is a free service which provides top 25 lists of most read articles http://top25.sciencedirect.com/index.php
The "Alert me about new Journal Issues" is another useful for you, especially when you are very busy and have no time to browse ScienceDirect. When you have used this tool, you will receive aperiodically the new information about the journal you care about.
You can export the paper's basic information to your reference manager, such as Endnote which a very convenient for you in paper writing. It can save your much time and decrease the input mistake greatly.
"Citation Alerts" is very useful when you want to know who citate your paper.
"Topic Alerts" give you the latest paper of your research field. And it will send the information to Email.
Want to know more? The ScienceDirect Info site has all the information you need to help you make the most of ScienceDirect. Online tutorials in multiple languages are also available. Guide in Simpe Chinese can be down directly by clicking here.
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