Handbooks

Now the high quality reference material found in Elsevier’s handbooks is available, anytime, anywhere presented online as part of different subject collections. With content solicited from the world's leading authorities, these highly-cited volumes offer an invaluable resource for your researchers. With the handbooks available from volume one up to the most current volume, users gain online access to valuable research spanning many years and many important developments in scholarly research.

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

Handbooks in summary

• Comprise authoritative, quality repositories within a mature research field
• Include chapters serving as self-contained surveys, often defining a field
• Authored by the most highly regarded experts in their fields
• Are highly cited
• Provide important entry points to the key literature
• Are updated regularly with new volumes
• Are fully searchable and linkable

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