The Department of Science and Technology (DOST), through the Philippine Council for Industry, Energy, and Emerging Technology Research and Development (PCIEERD) has given MMSU free access to Science Direct and Scopus databases, which contain various publications about research.

Science Direct is an extensive multi-disciplinary full-text databases containing more than 14 million publications, 3,800 peer-reviewed journals and serials, and 37,000 e-books including reference works.

This database also includes digital archives that reach way back as far as 1823. It is the largest online platform in the world, and the leading science and health information provider. It contains information resources in the fields of health sciences, life sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences.

Scopus, on the other hand, is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed scientific literature. It also contains 68 million items, less than 70,000 main institutional profiles, 12 million author profiles, 22,748 serial titles, and more than 5,000 publishers. It delivers a comprehensive view of world research.

These databases are owned by Elsevier, a global information analytics business that helps institutions and professionals advance healthcare, open science and improve performance for the benefit of humanity.

MMSU Library System (LS) Director Lucena R. Felipe said these databases would really help the faculty, staff, and students become fully informed on the advanced trends in research through its different fields, and in working on with their research studies more efficiently and effectively.

“With the huge body of knowledge that these databases contain as well as their characteristics and capabilities, the DOST encourages the maximum use of these as references in evaluating research proposals and projects,” Dr. Felipe said.

She said the accounts for accessing Science Direct and Scopus databases were given to her and to the two of LS staff who attended the orientation and author writeshop in Baguio City last month, emphasizing that every account can download about 25 articles or publications from the two databases at a time.

Dr. Felipe said she will be conducting an orientation meeting and workshop to educate the MMSU community about the use these databases in research and development so that anyone could learn how to publish complete researches from these databases.