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Byline: Bobby Pickering
Elsevier to unveil new look ScienceDirect in mid-August
Bobby Pickering
Elsevier is preparing to unveil a major redesign of its ScienceDirect website in August, the beginning of a rolling programme of changes over the next two years.
The new look will be unveiled at the ALA conference in New Orleans this month. ScienceDirect is the world's largest online STM full-text and bibliographic database.
The site overhaul, which will see superficial changes alongside significant usability enhancements, including a Recent Actions facility and Quick Links functionality, will give the service an entirely new look and feel.
But the main driver behind the upgrade is to bring key tasks into the homepage and reduce the number of clicks a user needs to make to access information. In an exclusive preview, Joep Verheggen, director of ScienceDirect, told IWR: "Our usability studies show ...