STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that its online scientific research platform, ScienceDirect, has surpassed nine million full-text articles. Doubling its content in less than five years, ScienceDirect claims to be the largest and most extensive online STM research platform. Serving the evolving needs of the global scientific community, the platform offers search, reference and discovery tools to help researchers quickly find the most relevant content for their specific objectives.
The nine millionth article added to ScienceDirect was 'On the Origin of a Double Oblique Impact of Mars' by J. E. Chappelow and R. R. Herrick of Arctic Region Supercomputing Center at University of Alaska Fairbanks. The study, which appears in the journal Icarus, explores how Mars' Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the Solar System, was formed.
ScienceDirect serves as host to the scientific research community by creating 'peer connections' between scientists and researchers and fostering interactions that allow them to compare and discuss findings and accelerate research. Recent enhancements to the platform also include 2collab, a new collaboration tool that researchers can use to rate and comment on research articles.
