December 7th 2009 Chris James from Elsevier gave a demo Scopus in the UMCG, organised by the CMB.

1. Scopus
Supporting Excellence in Research and Learning
Chris James
Account Development Manager
Elsevier, Amsterdam

2. 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

4. Research has changed

5. Why do you need Scopus?
Because libraries are exploration
spaces , not collection spaces

6. It’s an information
ocean , not a highway

7. 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

8. Efficient User Experience
Partnering with organizations to improve design and
functionality
•
“User centered,
librarian approved.”
– Librarian, University of Pittsburgh

9. 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)

10. Most Comprehensive Content
Committed to selecting quality But not this guy!
Independent Content Selection and Advisory Board
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.

11. 435 million scholarly
Web items, E-prints,
What is Scopus?
theses, dissertations, Including 1,200 Open
including 23 Access titles
million patents
3.6 million conference
papers
600 Trade Publications
Focused 18,000 titles 350 Book Series
web STM &
information
World’s Social
sciences
Largest
Abstract &
Citation
Academic Database 5,000
library publishers
sources
15% Elsevier sources
85% other publishers
Fastest route to FullText

12. Refine and Analyse Your Results

13. Scopus:
the broadest source of STM and Social Sciences information
> 5,000 publishers
3,400 5,500 5,300 3,850 18,000
Life Science Chemistry Health Science Social Sciences
Physics (100% Medline) Psychology
Engineering Economics

14. 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

15. Scopus - valuable backfiles included
1823 Items
19 million pre-1996
38 million records
+1.1 million per
year
Cited References
13 years
SELECTED
COVERAGE + 25 million each
FROM 1966 year
1996 Currency
Updated daily
CITATIONS 2009-1996
2009
18,000 current journal sources

16. Scopus finds more!
1966
»Average search is 2 or 3
terms
»High % of abstracts
increases RELEVANCE of
results
80% have abstracts
2009- 1823
2006
18,000 current journal sources

17. International distribution of titles
8127 806
5812
1450
189
357
251
Equals more LOCAL content

18. 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/ )

19. Don’t become blinkered in your searching!

20. Peripheral Searching in Scopus
• More tab added
• Searching and browsing of cited references (find information that may
have been missed otherwise)

21. How to help speed up your research process
• Document Download Manager

24. Interoperability with other products
Currently, Scopus is interoperable with 3 products:
 RefWorks
 CrossFire Commander and DiscoveryGate

25. 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

26. Already saved to RefWorks

27. • Alert of NEW
citations
• Link to citations in
Scopus
View record in
Scopus
Direct author search
into Scopus
View related
documents in Scopus

28. 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 )

29. Online Demo

30. Thank you.
cd.james@elsevier.com