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CSU Libraries Expands Electronic Access to Elsevier’s ScienceDirect Journals

Imagine having the ability to search a historical archive of over eight million articles directly from your desktop. This is exactly what CSU Libraries, through its partnerships with the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, has recently made available to the faculty, students, and staff of CSU through the cooperative purchasing of the ScienceDirect Backfiles. Now you can electronically access the complete collection back to volume 1, issue 1 of journals in ScienceDirect packages in research areas such as Environmental Sciences, The Lancet, and many more. (See the complete list of added collections below.)

The Lancet has been illuminating and advancing medical thought and practice since 1823, having published such renowned scientists such as Joseph Lister. It chronicles more than 180 years of medical intelligence, with one click from your desktop. The Environmental Science package includes core journals in the field and now top articles are available online for the first time to CSU in this key research area.

Search the titles and abstracts in the backfiles collections with full text electronic access. References are linked to the full text articles with full citation linking to and from recently published articles. “An excellent support tool for teaching and research with sophisticated search options and personalization features.”

The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, known as “the Alliance,” consists of ten institu­tions representing twelve major libraries located in Colorado and Wyoming. The consortium has enabled CSU to purchase a wide array of electronic resources that CSU would not have otherwise been able to afford. This most recent purchase involved leveraging the monies each library had already spent on portions of backfile collections combined with a new monies provided by the University of Wyoming. Prior to this year, CSU had already purchased 22 of Elsevier’s ScienceDirect journal backfile packages on its own. Now without CSU spending any additional funds, the deal helped expand access to backfile collections by 9 packages and includes 385 unique journal titles.

Visit the ScienceDirect Database from the Libraries’ Web site to begin your research.

(Off campus users may be prompted to the Libraries authentication login screen prior to viewing articles. You will be asked to enter your name, CSU ID, and PIN. Help with off-campus access is available at http://lib.colostate.edu/users/distance/faq.html.)

The newly added collections include:

  • Energy and Power
  • Environmental Sciences
  • High Energy/Nuclear Physics and Astronomy
  • The Lancet
  • Materials Science
  • Medicine and Dentistry
  • Nursing and Health Professions
  • Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
  • Physics General