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Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature.
University libraries and institutions offer ScienceDirect access to their communities of researchers.
Researchers, teachers, students, healthcare and information professionals use ScienceDirect to improve the way they search, discover, read, understand and share scholarly research.
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Find articles from over 2,500 journals and more than 40,000 book titles on ScienceDirect.
ScienceDirect combines authoritative, full-text scientific, technical and health publications with smart, intuitive functionality so that users can stay informed in their fields and can work more effectively and efficiently.
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Whether a journey for answers is short or long no one should travel alone. ScienceDirect provides the high-quality answers that improve research performance.
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Millions of publications from full-text journal articles to authoritative books. Elsevier’s stringent publishing standards guarantee quality publications. Journals are guided by eminent editorial boards and articles are rigorously peer-reviewed. Books on ScienceDirect cover 24 subject collections across disciplines such as biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, chemistry, clinical medicine, engineering and veterinary medicine.
Thousands of Elsevier journals, articles and book chapters are available on ScienceDirect as open access.
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ScienceDirect features sophisticated search and retrieval tools that make it easy to discover more relevant journal articles and book chapters.
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If one of the following situations applies to you, you can download one or multiple books, book chapters, journal issues or journal articles in PDF format:
- Your organization is subscribed to the content and you are logged in through your organization.
- You purchased chapters or articles with your credit card.
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If you are redirected to the access page after clicking the link to access your article or chapter, please try again after half an hour. If you still can’t access your article on the second try, contact our customer support through one of the contact options at the bottom of this page. They will be happy to provide you with a PDF version of your article or chapter.
- Access your article or chapter through the link you received in your email. This will take you to the online version of the article.
- Click ' Download PDF ' at the top of the article or chapter to open it in your default PDF reader.
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- If you are on a results page, article list, or a book table of contents - select the PDF icon underneath the title of the publication you want to download.
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As part of the continuous effort to protect ScienceDirect’s extensive content from bot activity and abuse, limits have been established when using the multiple document download functionality:
- On the search results page: 100 documents per day.
- On the journal issue page: 250 documents per day.
These limits relate only to the total number of PDF documents downloaded per day, not the number of multiple downloads performed per day. If the multiple document download limit has been met, PDF documents can be downloaded individually. The multiple download functionality is only available for organizational accounts that are subscribed to the content you want to download.
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- Select the checkboxes next to the articles you want to download.
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Introduction. A good paper has several key elements which are clearly communicated to the reader: the introduction presents a robust and well defined research question, the Methods Section describes a well-designed and well-executed study, the results are clearly presented and there is an intelligent and succinct discussion of the implications of the study.
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