Books Series

Online access to Book Series helps make finding vital research connections possible. Users can conduct integrated searches and link quickly and easily to full-text articles, Major Reference Works, other publishers’ content via CrossRef – all from a single, easy-to-use interface.

View the full list of Online Book and Handbook Series with new volumes coming to SciVerse ScienceDirect in 2012.

  

Methods in Enzymology publishes its 500th volume!

Check out our videos showcasing the most cited and highly respected eSeries on ScienceDirect, Methods in Enzymology: www.youtube.com/elsevierbooks. First published in 1955, there are now 500 volumes in the collection, which includes several molecular biology books, genetics books, and many other Life Science books.  In our newest video, series editors John Abelson and Mel Simon talk about the history of MIE, the changes that have occurred over the years, and highlight what’s yet to come for MIE.

Available online via ScienceDirect, the 500^th volume, Methods in Systems Biology, highlights methods in one of the most exciting and promising areas of biological research.

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Benefits of Book Series

• Accessible 24/7—remote access for multiple users simultaneously.
• Less costly than print versions based upon greater discoverability, higher usage per chapter over time, and no shelf space required
• High demand from Patrons—easy to search & browse for specific information
• Authoritative reviews & essays on current field research
• Highly cited, credible information researchers take from the library to the lab
• Updated often to keep research current & useful
• Researchers find exactly what they need—when they need it—and nothing more!
• Lengthy examination of subject areas, with deep insight and methodology
• Articles useful on their own—and highly discoverable
• Regular updates
• Book Series Backfiles available now - at a discount. Learn more about Book Series Backfiles!

Available Book Series packages

• Agricultural and Biological Sciences
• Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
• Chemistry
• Engineering
• Immunology and Microbiology
• Life Sciences - New (2009)
• Life Sciences - Legacy (2000 - 2008 subscribers)
• Methods in Enzymology Backfiles from 1955
• Neuroscience
• Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science
• Physics and Astronomy
• All Subjects

The Up-to-date books title information shows further information about the individual volumes and packages available.

Book Series Backfiles

This solution consists of 63 book series backfiles.  

The Book Series Backfiles on ScienceDirect solution contains volumes from the first volume of the titles up until 1 January 2000.

Book Series Backfiles collections

The Book Series Backfiles are offered in collections and individually as Pick & Choose...

• Complete Collection ( all 63 titles)
• Subject Collections:
  • Chemistry ( 12 titles) This mirrors the Chemistry Book Series collection
  • Life Sciences ( 38 titles) This mirrors the Life Sciences Book Series collection
  • Engineering ( 3 titles)
  • Physics & Astronomy ( 5 titles)
  • Psychology ( 5 titles)
• Sub- Subject Collections (the life Science package is divided in sub-subject collections);
  • Agricultural & Biological Sciences ( 7 titles)
  • Biochemistry, Genetics & Molecular Biology ( 19 titles)
  • Immunology & Microbiology ( 7 titles)
  • Neuroscience ( 2 titles)
  • Pharmacology, Toxicology & Pharmaceutical Science ( 3 titles)
• Methods in Enzymology Backfiles is sold as a seperate package.

Benefits of Book Series Backfiles on ScienceDirect

There are many benefits for librarians and researchers...

For librarians

• Empowers a library to offer comprehensive coverage of a series back to Volume 1, easily discoverable from the world’s leading online STM content platform. ScienceDirect is easier to use, offers more powerful search capabilities and more relevant results that its 4 nearest competitors. (Source: Elsevier ScienceDirect Benchmarking Study, 2006 quoted in Elsevier eBooks Value Story).
• Librarians empower their users to find relevant material quickly and easily. Users may have known that this material was in existence but they could not as easily access it before, or online availability may have revealed “hidden gems” that made a positive contribution to the success of research endeavors.
• Libraries face physical space challenges. This could be driven by the need to house new printed matter, or rare collections, or to make way for work space or other initiatives to promote the use and vibrancy of the physical library. Whether the decision has been made now or is planned for the future, the online availability of large amounts of key literature assists librarians in the migration of printed matter to cheaper, off-site storage locations.
• Increases the value of the entire collection, which is now more complete and comprehensive
• Moves more content to users’ desktops
• Gives older books that still contain relevant information new life
• Empowers users to find relevant material quickly and easily
• Increases usage because of accessibility, findability and linking to journal and other book content
• Meets user expectation levels, particularly for materials published prior to the online revolution
• Promotes remote usage
• Decreases demand for interlibrary loan (ILL), realizing time and cost savings
• Preserves older material without risk of damage, decomposition or theft
• Assists librarians in the migration of printed matter to cheaper, off-site storage locations or enables donation to other institutions
• Provides COUNTER-compliant usage statistics critical for good collection management
• Provides rights in perpetuity
  

For researchers

• Researchers can get quick access to historically groundbreaking content that can be as relevant today as it was when first published.
• Leverage the power of the ScienceDirect platform to gain new research insights make tangible connections and links between Book Series Backfile chapters and Backfile Journal Articles in the same subject area.
• Brings out of print and old titles back to life enabling users to go further back in time to explore the research that has helped shape today’s science
• Discloses content that previously was not as easily available
• Increases findability of often highly cited book content and contributes to better research
• Provides foundational knowledge that benefits researchers moving into a new area of inquiry and students looking for a broad overview of a topic – "consulting" with the pioneers in a specific field
• Helps authors, reviewers and editors who are checking references, verifying the originality of the work or gathering information for articles, particularly review articles
• Supports preparation of class lectures, putting subjects into their historical perspective for students
• Enables users to find classic or seminal research in the form of data, tables, charts and images
• Enables users to better follow the trail of citation
• Enables users to link to journal and other book content, integrating disparate information resources
• Increases "interrogability," enabling users to decide whether they actual need the book or chapter
• Reduces frustration and time waiting for books to arrive via interlibrary loan
• Moves more content to users’ desktops and therefore literature browsing and searching can be more easily integrated into the daily workflow
• Libraries & researchers get comprehensive access to the highest quality Book Series
• Elsevier Book Series are, on average, of a higher quality and have a greater impact on research output. This is demonstrated through independent research conducted by ISI, which shows that Elsevier serials have very high citation levels compared to 3rd party serials published within their subject category. Where a relative impact factor of 1 is seen as average against 3rd party serials in the same subject area, the majority of Elsevier Book Series titles have a greater relevant impact to category and 2 titles in particular in the Life Sciences and Chemistry collections , Advances in Microbial Physiology and Advances in Catalysis have extremely high relative impact factors of 13.181 and 13.154. The table blow shows the relative impact factor for all Elsevier serials measured.

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Elsevier book and handbook series are written and edited by the most prestigious scholars in the field. Online book and handbook series provide:

• Highly cited, highly accessible to all users, all the time.
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