Why does everything on Google Scholar cost money?

Who owns Elsevier

RELX GroupElsevier / Parent organization

Elsevier is a Dutch publishing and analytics company specialized in scientific, medical and technical contents. It belongs to RELX Group.

Is ScienceDirect a database

ScienceDirect is a full-text database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and 11,000 books.

What is Elsevier database

ScienceDirect is Elsevier's platform for online electronic access to its journals and over 40,000 e-books, reference works, book series, and handbooks. The articles are grouped in four main sections: Physical Sciences and Engineering, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, and Social Sciences and Humanities.

Is Scopus owned by Elsevier

Scopus – is an international, globally recognized multidisciplinary bibliographic database (DB), which was launched in 2004, and is owned by Elsevier company, also known as one of the major publisher of scientific literature.

How much is Elsevier worth

The biggest contender in the journal publishing market is Elsevier. With 3,000 journals and publishing nearly half a million articles per year, RELX, the parent company of Elsevier, had revenues of US $9.8 billion in 2019.

How much does ScienceDirect cost

Full ScienceDirect functionality, including full-text searching, CrossRef linking and personalization. Pay-Per-View can be used as a supplement to your regular subscriptions. US$31.50 per article or chapter for most Elsevier content. Select titles are priced between US$19.95 and US$39.95 (subject to change).

Is ScienceDirect free

Committed to Open Science

All articles published open access are peer-reviewed and made freely available for everyone to read, download and reuse in line with the user license displayed on the article.

Is Elsevier free access

Elsevier publishes open access articles which are free for readers to access.

Is Scopus free database

Scopus indexes content from more than 25,000 active titles and 7,000 publishers—all rigorously vetted and selected by an independent review board. 2021 CiteScore metrics are available on our free layer of Scopus.com.

Can I search Scopus for free

Yes, Scopus offers a preview mode that enables you to view which articles are available; however, you will not have full-text access. This is typically used by authors who want to check that their publications appear on Scopus.

Which is better Elsevier or Scopus

Elsevier is a publisher, and Scopus is article database provided by Elsevier. Not all journal from Elsevier is indexed in Scopus, and not all articles in Scopus come from Elsevier's journals. Scopus is more general, could from journal from other publishing companies.

Who is the world’s top 2% scientist Elsevier

Top 2% Scientist by Elsevier

Name Faculty Department
Prof. Pun, Ngai Faculty of Social Sciences Department of Sociology
Prof. Yeh, Anthony Gar On Faculty of Architecture Department of Urban Planning and Design
Prof. Zhao, Guochun Faculty of Science Department of Earth Sciences

Is Elsevier free or paid

Open access – Elsevier has a growing number of open access publishing options for authors to choose from. Articles which are published open access are immediately and permanently free to access by both subscribers and the reading public.

Do you have to pay for ScienceDirect

ScienceDirect offers a growing amount of open access and complimentary material for anyone to access and read. Individuals can order articles to be delivered in electronic or print format via Pay per View, a credit card-based article purchasing option.

Does it cost money to publish a scientific paper

For an entirely open access article in the most prestigious of scientific journals, author publishing charges or article processing fees can be as high as $5000US, but some legitimate open access journals charge minimal amounts of $10 to $20US, and journals in certain scientific fields and subject areas tend to be more …

Is Sci hub illegal

“Students should be aware that accessing such websites is illegal, as it hosts stolen intellectual property,” a spokesperson said.

How do I get free PDF on ScienceDirect

Go to the ScienceDirect Download portal. Copy the article URL or paper address and paste it into the Science direct download column. Click on the “Key” logo to route for the article and generate a download link. Click on the “Downloader” button to download and save a copy to your device storage.

What journals are free to publish

Free Paper PublicationJournal of Modern Materials (Materials Science Journal)Journal of Modeling and Simulation of Materials (Modeling & Simulation Journal)Advanced Journal of Graduate Research (Bachelor / Master Degree Student's Research Paper)Advanced Nano Research (Nano Research Journal)

How can I access academic journals for free

The Top 21 Free Online Journal and Research DatabasesCORE. CORE is a multidisciplinary aggregator of OA research.ScienceOpen.Directory of Open Access Journals.Education Resources Information Center.arXiv e-Print Archive.Social Science Research Network.Public Library of Science.OpenDOAR.

Is Google Scholar a free database

Google Scholar is free to use as a search tool. However, since it pulls information from many other databases, it's possible that some of the results you pull up will require a login (or even payment) to access the full information.

Is Scopus free or paid

Free Or Paid Scopus Indexed Journals

Open Access Journals are free Scopus indexed journals, there will be no charge for processing or submitting the research article in Scopus journal.

Is Scopus better than Google Scholar

Web of Science and Scopus both have “some” proceedings and books but they are mainly covering journal articles. Book coverage – Google Scholar excels at this way more than the others as it covers Google Books content along with other freely-accessible online publications.

Is Google Scholar better than Scopus

For the Computer Scientist Google Scholar provides five times as many citations as ISI, again reflecting the very significant number of book citations. So overall, although Google Scholar still has a slightly lower coverage of older publications than ISI, it is doing much better than Scopus in this respect.

Is PubMed better than Scopus

One major advantage of PubMed, not reproduced by Scopus or Web of Science, is that it is readily updated not only with printed literature but also with literature that has been presented online in an early version before print publication by various journals.

Who are the world’s 2% top scientists

World's Top 2% Scientists List

Scientist Subject Field
Dr Basura Fernando Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
Dr Li Xiaoli Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
Dr Lim Joo Hwee Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
Dr Chen Zhenghua Electrical & Electronic Engineering