Elsevier Offers Electronic-Only Option for Journal Subscriptions

By SCOTT CARLSON

Elsevier Science will begin offering electronic-only subscriptions for its ScienceDirect package, a collection of more than 1,200 journals. Institutions previously had to subscribe to paper editions of the journals to get access to their electronic versions.

ScienceDirect's new subscription option, dubbed E-Choice, will also extend to 175 journals that are part of the Academic Press collection, once owned by the publishing company Harcourt General and distributed on its IDEAL