The document provides information about online reference sources Web of Knowledge and Scopus. It outlines their objectives, prerequisites, duration and delivery style. It then provides details about the specific features of Scopus, Science Direct, Web of Knowledge and Web of Science, including their coverage areas, ability to export citations and PDFs, personalization options, and capabilities like alerts and citation analysis tools. The document aims to help users learn how to utilize and get started with these online reference databases.

1. Web Skills:
Web of Knowledge
and Scopus
Date
Rosemary Rodd
service-desk@ucs.cam.ac.uk

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4. General Information
 Objectives: Learn how to get started using online reference sources
 Pre-requisites: None, but familiarity with web browsing will help
 Duration & Break: 1 hour
 Course Material: handout for practical exercises
 Delivery Style: Demonstration followed by a practical

5. Follow-on courses:
EndNote Web
Courses run by University Library
Referencing Without Tears,
How To Do A Literature Search,
How To Find Things on Your Reading List
Newspaper Research

6. Scopus and Science Direct
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Some humanities/social sciences journals included, but
strongest in the sciences.
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Includes some recent academic books.
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Direct export of PDFs (provided you have access rights)
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Science Direct allows you to export PDFs by drag and drop.
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SCOPUS allows you to select multiple PDFs and download to
a folder
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Personalise using your Raven ID and password; no need to
set up another account.
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Records go back to 1960.

7. Web of Knowledge/Web of Science
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Not just for scientists: search over Arts and Humanities,
Social Sciences or Science databases for relevant items.
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Selected: journals go into the indexes after a degree of
quality control so only genuine academic work will be
included.
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Direct link to EndNote Web and methods to export to other
reference management software.
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Requires registration to use all the features: can't simply use
your Raven authentication to personalise.
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Records go back to 1899.

8. Alerts
Set up saved search routines to send an email to
notify you when a relevant article becomes
available.
Available on all three services

9. Login with your Raven account to personalise Scopus settings
This doesn't currently give access to the Sciverse hub, which still requires you to
register with your personal details.

10. Do a search

11. Adjust the settings and click the
create button to save your alert

15. Set up an RSS feed...

18. Analyse
Click an
author's name

29. Analyse co-publication trends

32. Explore references with the hub

35. Use apps to probe further

38. Go to the Science Direct platform to browse or access
materials direct

40. Browse relevant book titles

41. Most not free access, but you can purchase individual chapters

42. Web of Knowledge / Web of Science
Owned by Thomson Reuters who also own the reference
management programs EndNote and EndNote Web.

44. Web of Science: create a topic alert

45. x

47. Get alerts when a paper is cited

49. Analyse by creating a citation map

54. 2-generation citation map showing how a paper is cited in
papers which are then themselves referenced.