User Guide to ScienceDirect: Home

1. Go to https://ite-sg.libguides.com/databases

2. Click on ScienceDirect.

3. Login with your email address and password.

ScienceDirect is an online research database encompassing multi-disciplinessuch as Physical Sciences & Engineering, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences & Humanities journals and books that track the historical foundations of science, helps shed light on new research and insights and inspires innovative thinking with intelligent features that support smarter teaching, learning and research.

ScienceDirect is of authoritative, reliable, peer reviewed and trusted information from the world’s most pressing research and discovery questions that:

• explore fields of research, methods and materials 
• develop foundational knowledge
• expand subject matter expertise
• inform new ideas 
• stay up-to-date 
• gain in-depth insights into unfamiliar, trending or emerging topics

Before searching...

Currently, about 250,000 articles are open access, and these can be accessed free of charge. These articles are indicated with “Open Archive or Open Access” labels.

The remaining articles are available on a pay-per-download basis. For value-added service, Library has subscribed to a fixed number of such articles for staff to download. Please contact Library staff, Siti Fauziah Sani or Loh Hui Hong, for details on account creation.

Searching for articles

1. Type in keywords for your search:

2. You will get a list of search results.

3. You can filter the results so that you can get a refined set of articles that suit your needs: