Alkek Library News

Apps to enhance your ScienceDirect / SciVerse experience

There are over 110 applications available for you to make ScienceDirect suit your needs!

Here are just two examples:

The Altmetric app helps you measure the social media buzz that articles receive.

With the new Science News App, you can check out related articles from New York Times Science News while you are using the Sciverse Hub

Check it out today!

Now offering access to ALL ELSEVIER journals on new SciVerse platform!

Alkek Library is pleased to announce a new subscription to the ScienceDirect Freedom Collection that provides access to all Elsevier journal content published since January 1995.*  And in case you haven't noticed, ScienceDirect is on the new SciVerse platform offering a richer research experience.

Access to Elsevier journals has quadrupled for Texas State University patrons with this latest acquisition.  In 2011 access  grew from almost 600 to more than 2000 titles.  A complete list of titles available can be found here or by accessing our subscription on SciVerse . 

  *Exceptions include Cell Press, Clinics, society and third-party titles sold by ScienceDirect. 

Extended Coverage: Biological Abstracts

Online coverage for Biological Abstracts has now been extended back to Volume 1, 1926.  Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS) database includes some full text articles and is  "An expansive index to the world's life sciences journal literature, with topics ranging from biology to microbiology to pharmacology"

BIOSIS is also part of the ISI Web of Knowledge by Thompson Reuters.

Over 4,200 journals from 100 countries

Over 350,000 records added annually

Available with up to 11.3+ million records to 1926