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.

cd.james@elsevier.com