Research Platforms
Elsevier’s cross-discipline platforms support your research journey, enable research and career management, and empower you to make an even greater impact in your field.
Researchers seek a digital environment where ideas can be exchanged, examined, and applied with tools that empower scientific, medical and technical knowledge. Elsevier’s platforms allow you to find and analyze data from over 5000 publishers via Scopus; access the leading ebooks and journal articles published by Elsevier on ScienceDirect; and manage your research and showcase your profile via free services on Mendeley. These platforms make data and content easier to search, access, analyze, and share.
What we offer
Elsevier’s cross-discipline platforms support your research journey, enable research and career management, and empower you to make an even greater impact in your field.
Scopus
The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, Scopus delivers an overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Content from over 5,000 publishers is easily tracked, analyzed and visualized.
ScienceDirect
Elsevier’s leading information solution that empowers over 15 million researchers, teachers, students, healthcare professionals and information professionals around the world to be more impactful in their work. ScienceDirect combines authoritative, full-text scientific, technical and health publications with smart, intuitive functionality so users can stay more informed, and can work more effectively and efficiently. With over 13 million publications from nearly 2,500 journals and over 33,000 books from Elsevier, our imprints and our society partners, ScienceDirect empowers smarter research.
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Mendeley
A free reference manager and academic social network where you can organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research. To make Mendeley available to your institution, learn about the Mendeley Institutional Edition.
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What we support
Elsevier’s research platforms support the research journey, from idea incubation, through conducting research, to impact analysis.
Enabling Research
- Review literature from over 5,000 publishers on Scopus
- Track authors with the Scopus Author Evaluator
- Explore more through ScienceDirect Recommended Articles
- Discover research papers and public groups on Mendeley
- Find collaborators with the Scopus Author Identifier
- Analyze an author with the Scopus Author Evaluator
- View an author's h-index on Scopus
- Identify partners with the Scopus Affiliation Identifier
- Create private or public groups on Mendeley
- Jump-start your career with resources for Early Career Researchers
Doing Research
- Discover journals and books on ScienceDirect including open access content
- Try the ScienceDirect mobile article
- Learn what other researchers read with ScienceDirect Recommended Articles
- Gain a deeper understanding of an article by viewing images, interactive graphs, tables and figures on ScienceDirect
- Use Scopus to discover full-text content from over 5,000 publishers
- Export ScienceDirect and Scopus data to reference managers like Mendeley
- Share annotations and collaborate on Mendeley across any device
- Stay up-to-date with ScienceDirect and Scopus alerts
Sharing Research
- Publish your book or paper with Elsevier
- Share your Elsevier article with colleagues and peers
- Choose where to publish with the Scopus journal analyzer
- Use Scopus metrics to track journal and article impact
- Enrich your article with artwork and multimedia enhancements
- Consider open access publishing with Elsevier
- Build an online presence and show the world your professional research profile on Mendeley
- Check your Scopus author profile through our integration with ORCID
- Promote your work to colleagues and peers
- See your article downloads with our Article Usage Alert
- Track your performance with the Scopus citation tracker
Whom we serve
Elsevier supports researchers, teachers, students and information professionals working in academia, government and Research & Development organizations of all sizes.
Researchers & Authors
We support you with access to authoritative full text and tools to help you manage, share and collaborate.
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Teachers and Students
Use Scopus, ScienceDirect and Mendeley to prepare lecture notes and share course materials based on trusted peer-reviewed content. Our platforms enable you to create an interactive learning experience so students can discover and read material, work together on papers and projects, and get prepared for a successful research career.
- Use Scopus to drive information literacy and help students understand the scientific publication landscape
- Access reliable information on ScienceDirect, from books to journals, including open access and complimentary access content
- Organize course materials, work together on papers and share information across any device with Mendeley
- Jump-start your research career with Elsevier’s resources for Early Career Researchers
Librarians & Information Professionals
Elsevier provides librarians and information professionals with world-class research platforms for you and your user communities. We offer specific resources that help you manage your solutions portfolio, provide users optimal access to the platforms, and educate your user community to help them make the most of what you offer.
- Join the Library Connect community and explore our dedicated resources for librarians
- Use resources on Elsevier’s Publishing Campus to create your own research guide
- Use the Elsevier Admin Tool to manage your Scopus and ScienceDirect settings
- Learn about the Mendeley Institutional Edition
- Manage your Elsevier account on myElsevier.com
- Learn about Elsevier open access and text & data mining options
- Explore Elsevier’s Developers Website to learn more about our APIs