Galvin Library Adds over 1,200 Full-text E-journals

We are pleased to announce that the Galvin Library has just entered into a three year  agreement with Elsevier making available the entire collection of over 1,100 Elsevier journals plus about 100 journals from 25 prestigious societies and other publishers through the database ScienceDirect.  Coverage goes as far back as 1995 depending on the title and includes over 1.2 million articles.  This brings to approximately 5,000 the number of refereed full-text electronic journals available through the Galvin Library. 

The Galvin Library currently subscribes to 50+ of the Elsevier titles in print.  There are no limitations on viewing and/or downloading from these titles and they are accessible from your desktops. 

However, the remaining 1,100+ e-journals to which we do not subscribe in print, are available in full-text only in the Galvin Library or the Biegler Library.  You can access a list of the full text titles available from Galvin Library computers here: Science Direct Journal List. 

To access these journals, you must be using one of the Galvin Library's, or Biegler Library's computers go to the Galvin web page at www.gl.iit.edu.  You may go to the database page and click on ScienceDirect or access them directly from a Compendex search.  In either case, if you click on “Article” and not “PDF Format” you will have links to abstracts and full-text articles from the bibliography at the end of the article.  On the other hand, the graphics are superior with the PDF format.  If you look at both “Article” and “PDF Format” on the same day, we will be charged for only one access.

In a Compendex search the publisher is identified in the citation.  When the publisher is  Elsevier, click on the “abstract” (or “tagged format”), go to “full text options” at the bottom of the abstract, and click on ScienceDirect.

Should you have any questions please contact the Galvin Reference Desk at 7-3616.