–from the publisher–
ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance by the publisher, Elsevier, for approximately 9 hours on Saturday, 28 August from 7:30AM to 4:30PM.
During this time, upgrades will be implemented to these systems as part of the launch of the new SciVerse platform.
What is SciVerse?
Elsevier is launching SciVerse to bring together all of it’s e-publications, like ScienceDirect, the web content from Scirus, and SciTopics into one point of access, enabling more efficient search and discovery for users. Beginning in 2008, Elsevier interviewed over 3,000 researchers, research librarians and application developers to discern the obstacles the scientific community is encountering most. Elsevier found that researchers need a better way to search, discover, store, share and reuse the data that works with their individual research. Developers need access to research data to be able to develop the applications that will best assist them. Librarians want to expose the content they have in their collections. The launch of the SciVerse platform aims to fulfill all these needs by providing a new single-point of access that will enable collaboration across these three groups
For more information about SciVerse, please visit www.acceleratescience.com.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
