Scopus Trial

We are trialling Scopus, a relatively new product from Elsevier, and would like some faculty feedback. If they have any comments or questions, contact me, jennifer.lee@ucalgary.ca or Andrew Waller, waller@ucalgary.ca. We last looked at Scopus about a year-and-a-half ago. At that point, it was a smaller search product with much-less-developed citation analysis features. Since that time, the abstracting and indexing coverage has been broadened and the citation features have been further developed. Of the two aspects of Scopus (abstracting & indexing vs. citation features), we're especially interested in what you think about the citation side.

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Scopus Overview: What is it? (From the web site)

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. It's designed to find the information scientists need. Quick, easy and comprehensive, Scopus provides superior support of the literature research process. Updated daily, Scopus offers:

Over 15,000 titles from 4,000 different publishers
Over 12,850 academic journals including coverage of 535 Open Access journals
750 conference proceedings
600 trade publications
28 million abstracts
245 million references, added to all abstracts
Results from 200 million scientific web pages
12.7 million patent records from 4 patent offices
Seamless links to full-text articles and other library resources
Innovative tools that give an at-a-glance overview of search results and refine them to the most relevant hits
Alerts to keep you up-to-date on new articles matching your search query, or by favorite author

Scopus is the easiest way to get to relevant content fast. Tools to sort, refine and quickly identify results help you focus on the outcome of your work. You can spend less time mastering databases and more time on research.