ScienceDirect:荷蘭全文本科技數據庫平臺ScienceDirect數據庫是全球最著名的全文數據庫之一，由世界著名的Elsevier出版公司研製，該數據庫提供了2000餘種電子期刊、4000餘種電子書、參考工具書、手冊以及圖書系列的電子全文服務，涵蓋了24個學科領域900多萬篇文獻。

Elsevier是荷蘭一家全球著名的學術期刊出版商，每年出版大量的學術圖書和期刊，大部分期刊被SCI、SSCI、EI收錄，是世界上公認的高品位學術期刊。近幾年該公司將其出版的2,500多種期刊和11,000圖書全部數字化，即ScienceDirect全文數據庫，並通過網絡提供服務。該數據庫涉及衆多學科:計算機科學、工程技術、能源科學、環境科學、材料科學、數學、物理、化學、天文學、醫學、生命科學、商業、及經濟管理、社會科學等。國內11所學術圖書館於2000年首批聯合訂購SDOS數據庫中1998年以來的全文期刊。

Elsevier, the modern publishing company, was founded in 1880. It has evolved from a small Dutch publishing house devoted to classical scholarship into an international multimedia publishing company with over 20,000 products for educational and professional science and healthcare communities worldwide. Elsevier takes its name from the original House of Elzevir, a Dutch family publishing house founded in 1580.

Elsevier’s history reflects a series of collaborations in the effort to advance science and health. These publishing collaborations with a group of scientific visionaries — ranging from Jules Verne to Stephen W. Hawking — created the foundation of scientific and medical publishing.

The efforts of the men and women dedicated to disseminating and using scientific and medical knowledge have been equally critical-- the editors, printers, librarians, nurses, doctors, engineers, information specialists and business people at the center of scientific and health publishing.

Relationships with other great science publishers such as North Holland, Pergamon, Mosby, W.B. Saunders, Churchill Livingstone and Academic Press have also been Integral to our success. These are just a few of the companies that are now part of the Elsevier family, bringing with them rich histories of their own. As the company moves forward, our founding motto remains apt: Non Solus-- Not Alone.