ScienceDirect is the world’s leading full text peer reviewed information solution for scientific, technical and medicall research journal articles and book chapters. It hosts over 14 million publication from over 3,800 journals and more than 35,000 books, more than 1800 journals partially in open access and more than 590 journals fully in open access and contains backfiles (digital archives) dating back to 1823.
BUAN Library subscribes to the following packages (ebooks and journals);
In addition to these packages, the library subscribes to the Journal of Rangeland Ecology & Management
Registering and signing on Science Direct is optional but it enables users to receive recommended articles based on your activity , manage their account and alert, purchase articles, change password and track their search history
To register, follow steps below
Search "alert" notifies users whenever there is newly published information in their area of interest.
To create Alert follow the steps below;
Name of the search alert e.g meat science
Email frequency (weekly, monthly, quarterly etc)
Watch the video below to introduce you to Science Direct, and how to perform a basic search, refine the search, download PDF, images and export journal articles on science direct
Performing Advanced Search
Watch the video below and learn how to perform advanced search
The library also subscribes to ScienceDirect Ebooks
To search for ScienceDirect ebooks, follow the steps below
1.Go to "Search" in the library website
2. Click on eresources then scienceDirect ebooks
3. Under Ebooks, click on ScienceDirect ebooks
3. Type the book title on the search tab
4.Refine publication by selecting "books"
5. Click on your desired chapter
6. Click on download all chapter or download PDF to download
7. click on "share the book /chapter"" to share via email, facebook, twitter
8.Click add to mendeley to add chapters to your mendeley library