Scopus Visit

Faculty and students are invited to an event hosted by Elsevier/Scopus. It is a come-and-go event where one can ask our Elsevier reps questions about Scopus. Lunch will be provided.

The coordinates:

Tuesday, April 7
MacKimmie Library Tower, Room 909 ("MLT909")
12:30-2:30 pm

Topics may include:
- General Scopus overview
- Focus on A&H content (but feel free to ask about Sci/Tech content too!)
- Marketing ideas & usage

PSA - Scopus, ScienceDirect Scheduled Outage Saturday, April 4

...Enjoy your Saturday afternoon/evening instead!
Local times for the outage are 3 p.m. - midnight

Email from Elsevier:

On Saturday, 4 April, Scopus, ScienceDirect, and 2collab will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately nine hours starting at 10:00 p.m. UTC/GMT (6:00 p.m. EDT).

We apologize for the inconvenience,
Regards,
The Elsevier Team.

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.

Access Scopus through the UofC via our Research Databases list, or:
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=
http://www.scopus.com

New Product: Scopus (Elsevier)

Scopus is Elsevier's uber-indexing tool, covering science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and a smattering of other general topics.

It also has citation tracking, much like Web of Science and Google Scholar

It will soon be on our Research Databases list, but in the meantime, access it via:http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://www.scopus.com