New Feature in Scopus (Elsevier Database)
Tired of saving pdfs from Scopus individually to your hard drive?
Well, Scopus has come up with a new "Document Download Manager" that lets you save its pdfs en masse. More info is on their Web page at:
http://www.info.scopus.com/february_08/
There's no mention of bibliographic management software like EndNote, RefWorks, etc., so one probably can't save directly to them, but this is a pretty big improvement nonetheless.
I am trying it out as I type. It's chugging in the background and it seems a bit slow - I selected three articles. An interesting thing is that even though the article is not available full-text in Scopus, the Manager will find a pdf copy anyway, and download it to your hard drive. This must be the relationship with "QUOSA" that the news release mentions. How does this compare with what SFX finds? Well, it doesn't seem to be as complete as SFX. This means that if Scopus' Document Download Manager doesn't download a pdf, that pdf could still be available in another database for download. Darn.
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posted by Jennifer Lee @ 10:24 am
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Direct export to bibliographic management software has been a longstanding feature, available throught the output button....
Hi Jeroen,
To clarify, I was referring to the fact that one can't somehow link the pdfs automatically to their records within EndNote or RefWorks. One still saves the references to bib management software (which is the process you mentioned), then saves the pdfs (this part is now quicker, yippee!), then one has to link the pdfs to their corresponding records within EndNote or RefWorks.
Thanks for your comment!
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