1. ScienceDirect @
Rachel McCullough
Account Development Manager
Elsevier

2. Agenda
• Introducing the SciVerse Platform
• SciVerse ScienceDirect Updates
• SciVerse Hub & Applications
• Q&A

3. What is SciVerse?

4. What is SciVerse?
SciVerse empowers the research community to accelerate science by
opening ScienceDirect & Scopus content APIs for third-party application
development, enabling intelligent search and discovery across integrated
content from ScienceDirect, Scopus, and the scientific web

5. What is SciVerse?
•Integrated Content & Discovery Tools
•Productivity-Enhancing Applications

6. SciVerse
Scopus
SciVerse
ScienceDirect
SciVerse
PlatformAugust 28, 2010:
ScienceDirect and Scopus integrated on the SciVerse platform
• Single log-in provides access to all licensed
and free SciVerse products – Hub,
ScienceDirect, and Scopus.
• Increased interoperability and easier
navigation between solutions
• Image Search for full-text articles and
books (e.g. photos, tables, videos)
• Integration of REFLECT, the 2009 Grand
Challenge winner, offers contextual
information on proteins, genes and small
molecules within articles.
• Reference Work Helper links to relevant
reference works on ScienceDirect directly
connected to a selected article
• Author Evaluation tool visualizes author
data to aid collaboration or individual
assessment decisions
• Citation Tracker: it is now possible to
download citations from 20,000 records at
one time, and increase from 5,000.

7. PreviewofSciVerse
Applications
SciVerse
HubBetaOn August 28, 2010, SciVerse Hub was launched with three free
Applications for all customers
• One search across a single index of
ScienceDirect, Scopus, and web content
• Three embedded applications for all users
that include:
• Methodology section search application
for full text articles
• Sentence matching application efficiently
assesses search results and displays query
words in the full sentences where they
appear
• Prolific author search application finds the
most “prolific authors” publishing articles
about search terms, linking into articles by
that author within Scopus.
7

8. Libraries can become focal point for applications

9. Openness and Interoperability
Access to APIs and creating an ecosystem
that brings together core base of users
and tools to build applications

12. SciVerse Launched in Multiple Phases, 2010-11
Launch of SciVerse Platform and Hub Beta
August 28, 2010
♦ ScienceDirect and Scopus updated to the
SciVerse platform with increased
interoperability
♦ SciVerse Hub Beta and three embedded
Applications launched and available to
customers at no additional cost
Launch of APIs
August 28, 2010
♦ Limited API Beta release to
Development partners
November 2010
♦ APIs available to developers
Launch of SciVerse Applications Beta
November 2010
♦ SciVerse Applications Beta
available to select customers
February 2011
♦ SciVerse Applications Beta
available all customers

13. SciVerse Hub

14. The New SciVerse Hub features
one search...

16. Three embedded applications for
all users that include:
1. Methodology section search
application for full- text articles

19. 2. Sentence matching application
efficiently assesses search results
and displays query words in the full
sentences where they appear

20. 3. Prolific author search application
finds the most “prolific authors”
publishing articles about search
terms, linking into articles by that
author within Scopus.

21. SciVerse ScienceDirect

22. ScienceDirect
• ScienceDirect is Elsevier’s extensive and unique full text database that
covers authoritative titles from the core scientific literature.
• More than nine million full-text articles from 2,500 journals and 11,000
books are available in ScienceDirect, making up 25% of the world’s STM
literature.

23. You can access ScienceDirect by…
1. Through your library’s webpage, under Databases
2. Go to www.sciencedirect.com
3. Linking from the SciVerse Hub

24. ScienceDirect Updates:
• Image Search for full-text articles and books
(e.g. photos, tables, videos)
• Integration of REFLECT, the 2009 Grand
Challenge winner, offers contextual information
on proteins, genes and small molecules within
articles.
• Reference Work Helper links to relevant
reference works on ScienceDirect directly
connected to a selected article

25. The New
SciVerse ScienceDirect

26. Image Search results in
SciVerse ScienceDirect

27. Integration of REFLECT

30. Reference Work Helper

31. Collaboration is Key
• Another update recently made to ScienceDirect (independently of
the SciVerse launch) is the partnership with NextBio.
• This has enhanced ScienceDirect content in the fields of life
sciences, health sciences and chemistry

32. Content with NextBio Functionality
… Enriched ScienceDirect content in
the fields of:
Life Sciences
Health Sciences
Chemistry
… Journals, Book Series,
Handbooks, and eBooks
… 1995 to present

33. Using ScienceDirect with NextBio
While viewing an article or book chapter on
ScienceDirect, the keywords from that
selected article or book chapter are matched
against NextBio’s biomedical ontologies.
Directly on the article page, researchers will
find the NextBio application which presents
key terms found in the selected article or book
chapter.

34. Using ScienceDirect with NextBio
The in-context pop-up allows
the researcher to quickly gain
an overview of the article
from the perspective of their
chosen term, and to quickly
link through to other
information.

35. Using ScienceDirect with NextBio
Clicking within the NextBio
application box allow for further
exploration of the subject based
on the trustworthy and publicly
available sources collected and
compiled by NextBio.

36. Using ScienceDirect with NextBio
On selecting a category
and source, results can be
further sorted and refined

37. Questions?

38. Thank You!
info.sciencedirect.com
Rachel McCullough
r.mccullough@elsevier.com