SciVerse Releases

Scopus and ScienceDirect Document Download Manager Enhancements

The SciVerse Team — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:56:00 +0000

Release Date:

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Responding to Your Feedback

SciVerse Team — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:55:25 +0000

Release Date:

Saturday, March 17, 2012

With our latest release, changes focus specifically on responding to customer feedback, especially those addressing article rendering issues and performance. In addition, several enhancements are released resolving access and entitlement issues.

In order to optimize your PDF downloading experience, your network may require a configuration change, please click here to learn more.

Take A Look at What We Are Planning…

The SciVerse Team — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:50:07 +0000

Release Date:

Monday, March 12, 2012

The SciVerse team is planning some upgrades and fixes in the coming weeks. Take a quick scan through some of the plans below for SciVerse ScienceDirect, Scopus, Applications & Hub to learn more.

SciVerse ScienceDirect

Responding to Your Feedback

Our upcoming changes will focus specifically on responding to customer feedback, especially those addressing article rendering issues and performance. In addition, several enhancements are planned for resolving access and entitlement issues.

Important: Update Your Institutional Network Configuration

The SciVerse Team — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:46:45 +0000

Release Date:

Saturday, March 17, 2012

During the SciVerse releases in January and March, we are making improvements to tackle network latency issues in geographically dispersed locations. With these enhancements we aim to improve the experience of accessing SciVerse ScienceDirect static content (such as PDFs, logos, buttons and supplementary content).

For your institution to get the most out of these SciVerse ScienceDirect enhancements, your network administrator may need to allow traffic from the content delivery network domains in your institution's network configuration.

SciVerse Release information

The SciVerse Team — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:13:53 +0000

Release Date:

Friday, January 6, 2012

SciVerse presents exciting new features on January 7th, 2012. Read through our blog entries below to learn more about each product!

SciVerse ScienceDirect Releases

The SciVerse Team — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:28:58 +0000

Release Date:

Friday, January 6, 2012

On January 7, 2011 Elsevier launched several highly anticipated enhancements to its SciVerse platform.

What does this mean for users of SciVerse ScienceDirect?

Benefit from improved navigation and readability
In order to increase the value of the HTML version of the articles on SciVerse ScienceDirect for our users, we are working towards a complete redesign of the article page which will be rolled out in several phases.

Article of the Future

SciVerse Team — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:51:53 +0000

Release Date:

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Elsevier has created an intuitive new online article format in SciVerse ScienceDirect that marks the next generation in research publishing in regards to presentation, content and context. It will provide easy navigation, new and valuable types of content, and topical and relevant context in a 3 pane format optimized for online reading.

Postponed: SciVerse scheduled outage now early 2012

The SciVerse Team — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:50:02 +0000

Release Date:

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Important notice emailed to SciVerse customers on 8 December 2011

Some of you have expressed concerns to us about the timing of our upcoming outage (originally scheduled for this Saturday, 10 December 2011) and its impact on end-of-year research, exams, and other activities. As a result, the Elsevier team has decided to postpone our scheduled maintenance until early 2012; we will notify you ahead of this with further details regarding timing and duration.

Elsevier Urban & Fischer Journal Archives

SciVerse Team — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:14:31 +0000

Release Date:

Friday, October 28, 2011

Published under the renowned Urban and Fischer imprint three new backfile offerings in the life and health sciences are digitized and available for the first time in electronic format. From the first volumes published in English (1970s) to 2000 these offerings link seamlessly with Urban & Fischer journals currently on SciVerse ScienceDirect beginning from 2001. For more information visit the infosite.

SciVerse Release Summary

The SciVerse Team — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:01:47 +0000

Release Date:

Friday, September 9, 2011

Your search, your way

Through September 2011, Elsevier launched several important enhancements to its SciVerse platform that expand your search options, speed up your research and boost efficiency.

More to discover

• In SciVerse ScienceDirect, users may see up to three related PDF articles based on topic relevance to the PDF article they download.
• In SciVerse Scopus, searching the references will now find web site addresses (URLs).