Journals
Elsevier Backfiles on ScienceDirect
- Benefits for Researchers
- Collections Now Available
- Missing Issues in Backfiles Collections
- Improving the quality of images and missing pages and missing issues – Progress Reports
- Pricing Information
Imagine having the ability to search a historical archive of over eight million articles directly from your desktop, back to Volume 1, Issue 1.
This is exactly what the Elsevier Backfiles on ScienceDirect program makes possible.
The Backfiles up to 1994 contain 4.3 million articles. As from 1995 to present day there are an additional four million, a figure that is growing at approximately 300,000 journal articles per year.
Benefits for Researchers
All ScienceDirect customers are able to search the titles and abstracts in the backfiles collections as they become available, at no extra charge. Subscribers are entitled to full text access. References are linked to the full text articles, and the collections are fully CrossRef enabled (as are all ScienceDirect titles), giving access to full text content from over 300 leading STM publishers. The backfiles are also available for local loading onto the library systems of ScienceDirect OnSite customers.
- Complete collection from 1994 back to volume 1, issue 1
- Efficient, time-saving access on one platform, immediately available at the desktop
- Full citation linking to and from recently published articles
- Immediate access to path breaking papers
- Excellent support tool for teaching and research
- Sophisticated search options and personalization features
- Direct linking through PubMed (where applicable)
- Can be searched via Compendex on ScienceDirect (where applicable)
Collections Now Available
Missing Issues in Backfiles Collections
An overview of all issues still missing, reported per launched backfiles subject package. Issues that have the status ‘in production' are currently being processed and will appear on-line soon. For volumes and issues having the status indication ‘missing source', the paper copies from which to scan the articles have not yet been located. Elsevier is doing all that is possible to trace these sources at Editorial Offices and University Libraries.
Improving the quality of images and missing pages and missing issues – Progress Report 1
Some customers who have bought Backfile collections over the last seven years have been notifying us of missing pages and, in particular, poor scanned images. In the last year we have received an increasing number of notifications and understandably some dissatisfaction. This has triggered us to look into the problem in a more structural way - rather than on an individual basis as was possible previously - in order to rectify the situation as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Background information and full reports
Pricing Information
Pricing information for all Backfiles is available on this website.