Release Notes

Journals Dataset

As part of our regular journal selection review, we are pleased to announce the following changes to the ScienceDirect Corporate Edition flat file delivery.

An additional 44 titles have been added to the Corporate Edition collection. These journals and articles have also been incorporated into the relevant subject collections.

Full details of which journals are covered can be found here.

10 titles have also been removed (divested, transferred or removed for rights protection) from the backfile and will no longer appear in updates.

The following titles have been removed.

The changes will be reflected in the October 2025 backfile(s) and in subsequent daily updates (exact date to be confirmed). We suggest that you re-ingest the October backfile once it is available, at your convenience, to fully benefit from the additional content.

If you have any questions, please contact your account manager.

This release focuses on some significant content expansion efforts for Elsevier’s full-text datasets. We are pleased to include this additional content thanks to a combination of refinements of our internal processing and additional content from Open Access journals. 

The content expansion is relevant for both our standard Corporate Edition dataset (and subject collection subsets) as well as our Enriched FAIR Life Science dataset (and Therapy Area subsets).

Standard Corporate Edition Full-text content expansion 

434 titles have been added to the full-text Corporate Edition dataset. 

• These journals/articles have been incorporated into the relevant subject collections (e.g. the journal ‘Physics in Medicine’ is in both the Corporate Edition collection, and the subset subject collections of ‘Medicine and Dentistry’ and ‘Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology’
• 37 titles have also been removed (divested, transferred or for rights protection) from the backfile and will no longer appear in updates.
• These changes overall represent an increase in coverage of 18%.
• The updated journal coverage list can be found here.

Enriched FAIR full-text content 

Of the 434 titles added to the standard dataset, 359 titles of these have been added to the full-text Enriched FAIR dataset. 

• The articles from these journals have been incorporated into the relevant Therapy Area data subsets. These new journals will be included in any subsequent updates.
• 24 titles have also been removed (divested, transferred or for rights protection) from the backfile and will no longer appear in updates.
• These changes overall represent an increase in coverage of 23%.

Document Types

For both the standard full-text and enriched full-text Datasets we are now including the following document subtypes: RTI, REM, RET. These cover retired, retracted and withdrawn articles such as this.   

• These articles may have been withdrawn at the request of authors or editors for various reasons. See more about Elsevier’s article withdrawal policy here.
• The addition of the document subtypes allows you to be aware of any articles you may wish to remove from your analysis.

Additional vocabs added to the Enriched Full-text Datasets

Enrichment updates

All articles will be enriched by the following additional vocabs where applicable. 

All the vocabs used to enrich the content have been refreshed and new terms added where applicable.