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December 7th 2009 Chris James from Elsevier gave a demo Scopus in the UMCG, organised by the CMB.
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Scopus
Supporting Excellence in Research and Learning
Chris James
Account Development Manager
Elsevier, Amsterdam
What will we cover?
• Introduction to Scopus – what is it and what does it do?
• Useful sites
• How are customers using it (live demo)
• Using lists, RSS feeds and alerting options
Research has changed
Why do you need Scopus?
Because libraries are exploration
spaces, not collection spaces
It’s an information
ocean, not a highway
What is Scopus?
• Scopus is the world‟s biggest abstract and citation database of
research literature and quality web sources.
• In development since 2002, Scopus was launched in November 2004
• Built in collaboration with 21 institutes world-wide
Partnering with organizations to improve design and
functionality•
“User centered,
librarian approved.”– Librarian, University of Pittsburgh
Efficient User Experience
What is Scopus?
• Scopus is the world‟s biggest abstract and citation database of
research literature and quality web sources.
• In development since 2002, Scopus was launched in November 2004
• Built in collaboration with 21 institutes world-wide
• Tested by 300+ researchers
• Content policy informed by independent Content Selection and
Advisory Board (CSAB)
Committed to selecting quality
Most Comprehensive Content
Content Selection and Advisory Board: 20 scientists and 10 subject
librarians from all scientific disciplines and geographic areas
2008 selection round:
65% of suggested titles were rejected
due to rigorous quality check.
Independent Content Selection and Advisory Board
But not this guy!
Focused web
information
Academic library
sources
18,000 titles
5,000 publishers
STM &Social
sciencesWorld’s
Largest
Abstract &
Citation
Database
What is Scopus?
15% Elsevier sources
85% other publishers
435 million scholarly
Web items, E-prints,
theses, dissertations,
including 23
million patents
Fastest route to FullText
Including 1,200 Open
Access titles
3.6 million conference
papers
600 Trade Publications
350 Book Series
Refine and Analyse Your Results
Scopus:
the broadest source of STM and Social Sciences information
3,400
Life Science Chemistry
Physics
Engineering
Health Science
(100% Medline)
Social Sciences
Psychology
Economics
> 5,000 publishers
18,0005,500 5,300 3,850
What is Scopus meant to do?
1. Searching for relevant scientific information
2. Linking to full-text of articles in one click
3. Citation analysis to evaluate authors and to monitor fields of
scientific enquiry
4. Find unique authors, their affiliations, and scientific track records
5. Find unique institutions, their output and trends
• Scopus is targeted at anyone looking for scientific information, i.e
students, researchers, librarians, people measuring scientific
performance
SELECTED COVERAGE FROM 1966
CITATIONS 2009-1996
18,000 current journal sources
1823
2009
1996
Items
38 million records
+1.1 million per
year
Cited References
13 years
+ 25 million each
year
Currency
Updated daily
Scopus - valuable backfiles included
19 million pre-1996
Scopus finds more!
80% have abstracts 2009- 1823
18,000 current journal sources
1966
2006
»Average search is 2 or 3
terms
»High % of abstracts
increases RELEVANCE of
results
5812
357
8127
189
806
1450
251
International distribution of titles
Equals more LOCAL content
Scopus Highlights
• More Content!!!
• Added Backfiles from volume 1, issue 1
• 7 million records added in 2007 (incl: Elsevier, Springer and
“Nature”)
• 800 new titles approved by CSAB added in 2007.
• 600 new titles to be added in 2008 (inc 200 in Social Sciences) from
1,700 suggested
• Search & Link with CSA‟s Illumina
• Articles in Press added
• THES – Switch from Thompson to Scopus data
• 1,450 new A&H titles added in June 2009
(http://info.scopus.com/ah/ )
Don’t become blinkered in your searching!
Peripheral Searching in Scopus
• More tab added
• Searching and browsing of cited references (find information that may
have been missed otherwise)
How to help speed up your research process
• Document Download Manager
Interoperability with other products
Currently, Scopus is interoperable with 3 products:
RefWorks
CrossFire Commander and DiscoveryGate
RefWorks: Scopus edition is available free of charge
to all mutual customers
In Scopus:• Save unlimited records directly to Refworks• Immediately see the records in Scopus that have been previously • exported to RefWorks. • Create Bibliographies in different format and publishing styles • directly in Scopus using QuikBib
Unique to joint customers in RefWorks:• View Scopus cited by‟s (always up to date)• See „newly‟ cited items (since previous RefWorks session)• Conduct a search in Scopus on authors by just clicking “Go”• Directly link to articles in Scopus• Perform a related references search in Scopus
Already saved to RefWorks
• Alert of NEW citations
• Link to citations in Scopus
View record in Scopus
View related documents in Scopus
Direct author search into Scopus
Useful Sites
• info.scopus.com
• info.scopus.com/detail/what
(Suggest a title, list of titles, list of publishers etc)
• info.scopus.com/topcited
• www.scimagojr.com
(The SCImago Journal & Country Rank )
Online Demo
Thank you.