Talk:ScienceDirect

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Redirect to Elsevier

SD is just the name that Elsevier has given to its online platform to publish journals and ebooks and such. The article here is just a minimal stub and has remained like this in the five years since it wa created, without any editor paying much attention to it. I doubt it can be expanded in any meaningful way (or that any significant independent secondary sources about ScienceDirect exist), so I propose to redirect it to Elsevier. If people think that the minimal info present here is useful and should be salvaged, it can be merged into the Elsevier article. --Guillaume2303 (talk) 08:40, 12 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support merge and redirect. ScienceDirect is little more than a web portal linking to Elsevier's science journal offerings. Gobonobo ^T ^C 20:21, 16 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Even though the article is rather short, the article still serves an important purpose in simply explaining what Sciencedirect is to the reader in a few words. I don't see a problem with this at all. Actually, I think Wikipedia should do this for many of its entries, preferably accompanied with nice wiki-links to guide the reader to articles that expand on the subject. Further, the redirect is anoying - if you want to look up ScienceDirect, you get dumped on the Elsevier page and you have to sift through the messy article to find the information burrowed in a section sloppily labeled 'Science & Technology'. In the case of this article, I think one should take care not to mistake 'minimal' and 'short' with 'stub' and 'too short'. Elianfoo (talk) 17:05, 4 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per my explanations on Talk:Elsevier/Archives/2014#Merge ScienceDirect. --Leyo 17:54, 22 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Are articles published on the Science Direct site generally reliable?

How reliable are the articles published on the Science Direct site? Are they conscientiously peer reviewed? Are they curated by independent or disinterested parties? How well does it meet the Wikipedeia criteria for Reliable Sources. See: Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lbeaumont (talk • contribs) 18:55, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It is not appropriate to jointly judge the reliability of the 3500 academic journals available via ScienceDirect. --Leyo 09:08, 26 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. But the question was also: How are they reviewed? And that is a relevant question in assessing how useful Science Direct is as a publishing brand. RhinoMind (talk) 14:43, 27 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]