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What is ScienceDirect?
ScienceDirect is the web database of approximately 1,800 Elsevier journals covering mostly scientific, technical and medical (STM) literature, but also business, law and other social sciences. The UO's access combines paid subscriptions to nearly 200 electronic only titles and pay per view access (PPV) to the remaining Elsevier titles.
To access articles in the pay per view journals, you must create a ScienceDirect account when using a computer on the campus network.
Why are the Libraries providing the PPV access?
For a combination of reasons, the Libraries are exploring PPV access in the coming months:
- Our users have expressed a strong desire for desktop delivery of journal articles.
- We believe PPV access provides more cost-effective access to journal articles than paying for a subscription. The Libraries moved nearly 200 journal subscriptions to PPV access for 2005. The Libraries monitors the usage of these titles to compare the cost of PPV to the cost of a subscription.
- Budget reductions in the last decade have forced the Libraries to cancel approximately 3,500 titles. With PPV, the Libraries can restore access to some of this content.
- PPV access via ScienceDirect greatly increases our users' access to full-text content--from just several hundred journals to about 1,800.
How long will the PPV access last?
PPV access to some journal titles is probably permanent, but it depends on our use of particular titles. As stated above, the Libraries analyzes the usage of subscribed titles and PPV titles. We will determine what titles are the most cost-effective to subscribe to and what titles are most cost-effective to deliver as PPV. We expect to have to re-subscribe to some titles and move current subscriptions to PPV. Any savings we gain from offering PPV will be used to offset future reductions. If PPV works with journals published by Elsevier, we hope to offer the PPV option for other publishers' titles. Overall, the Libraries' goal is to make the access as seamless as possible for the user whether a title is available on PPV or on subscription.
Who is paying for the PPV?
The UO Libraries are subsidizing the PPV access for the UO community. The Libraries will pay $30 for each article our users view or download. While the campus community explores this access to journal articles, we ask users to be judicious in their use of the service.
I selected an article on Science Direct that I want to download or view the full-text. Below is an example of the screen I saw. Does this mean that I will have to pay if I click the Continue button?
No. The Libraries are subsidizing the PPV access. We just remind users that each article costs $30 and to use library resources wisely. If you have not registered or logged, ScienceDirect will likely prompt you a for a credit card number. When you are logged into your ScienceDirect account, click on the Continue button to retrieve your article. You only need to click the Continue button once.
How can I tell the difference between subscribed titles and PPV titles?
Subscribed titles are indicated by a green box on ScienceDirect's website. Pay per view titles, are listed as unsubscribed and indicated by a white box. ScienceDirect also offers free access to a selected number of titles and journal issues, indicated by a yellow box.
How do I find journals or articles in ScienceDirect?
Users may identify journal articles while using one of the library's licensed databases or by searching for a specific journal title in the library catalog. Journal titles for which the library has a subscription are also listed in FindText. Pay per view journal titles are not listed in FindText.
How do I get access to the journal content in ScienceDirect? Must I register for access?
- To view articles from subscribed titles, simply click through the necessary links to find your article.
- To get a PPV article (view or download), you must register. Registration is easy. It also allows users to personalize access to journal information by signing up for an alert service or defining a specific subject area of interest. Access to ScienceDirect pay per view journal titles is restricted to current UO faculty, students, and staff.
For more information about remote or off-campus access, consult: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/dbs/proxy/.
I located an article in ScienceDirect that I would like to read. When I try to link to the full-text, I get the message shown below. Why am I getting this message if the Libraries are providing this access for the UO campus?
If you receive the page below, it means you need to register for an account, then enter your username and password in the form to login.
What are the permitted uses of this content?
Current UO faculty, students, and staff (the UO's authorized users) may:
- Access, search, browse, view ScienceDirect content from subscribed and unsubscribed journals
- Print and download a limited number of articles, abstracts, records for personal, educational, or scholarly use
- Transmit excerpts to other UO authorized users or to non-UO colleagues for their personal, educational, or scholarly use
- Use excerpts to fulfill interlibrary loan requests for other academic or non-commerical institutions within the U.S.
- Use articles, abstracts, or record for password-protected electronic course reserves or course information systems (i.e., Blackboard) so long as the content is taken down after each academic term. If you want to use ScienceDirect articles on course reserves, contact Laura Willey, lwilley@uoregon.edu, 6-1915. For use on Blackboard, consult JQ Johnson, jqj@uoregon.edu, 6-1746.
What are the restrictions on use of this content?
- Use articles from pay per view journals is restricted to current UO faculty, students, and staff
- Transmittal of articles or excerpts must include appropriate acknowledge of the source (author, title, publisher and any copyright notices).
- Commercial use is not permitted.
- Use of robots, spiders, crawlers, or other automatic downloading programs/devices is not permitted.
For more information about ScienceDirect access, please contact Dave Fowler, head of Acquisitions at dcfowler@uoregon.edu, 6-1839.
Maintained by: Diane Haas, dkhaas@uoregon.eduLast Modified: 03/27/2008