ScienceDirect (AI-Powered)

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Other users:  Online Access

Online Access  (direct search for ebooks and journal titles)
Online Access  (search by ScienceDirect Topics, which provides excerpts from related books and reference works)
Off-campus Access Rights : P - PolyU Staff/Students only

Resources by vendor Elsevier
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ScienceDirect is an AI-powered scholarly database offering natural language search, smart summaries, and insights across millions of peer-reviewed publications to streamline exploration and accelerate discovery across diverse scientific disciplines.
 
AI-Powered ScienceDirect AI
  • Provides researchers with answers from a vast collection of full-text articles, book chapters from ScienceDirect, and open-access content
  • Provides AI-driven recommendations tailored to specific inquiries
  • Compares experiments and synthesize literature
  • Consults a Reading Assistant directly when opening any article or book chapter

Notes: ScienceDirect AI will be upgraded to LeapSpace (ScienceDirect AI + Scopus AI) at the end of January 2026 tentatively. Access LeapSpace beta version at https://www.sciencedirect.com/researcher-ai.

ScienceDirect is a collection of scientific articles accessible through the Internet. It contains the full-text of a rich collection of Elsevier journals and books in a wide range of fields, including:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Business, Management and Accounting
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Chemistry
  • Computer Science
  • Decision Sciences
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Energy
  • Engineering
  • Environmental Science
  • Health Sciences
  • Immunology and Microbiology
  • Materials Science
  • Mathematics
  • Neuroscience
  • Nursing and Health Professions
  • Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science
  • Physics and Astronomy
  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine

 

In addition, PolyU can access the following 10 Backfile Collections for ScienceDirect online journals:

  1. Business, Management and Accounting Supplement
  2. Chemical Engineering Supplement
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance Supplement
  4. Inorganic Chemistry Supplement
  5. Mathematics Supplement
  6. Organic Chemistry Supplement
  7. Physical and Analytical Chemistry Supplement
  8. Physics General Supplement
  9. Psychology Supplement
  10. Social Science Supplement


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