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SCOPUS for Science
and Medicine
Gabriella Netting ([email protected])
Nicola Mawer ([email protected])
January 2007
Wiser Science this term:
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Web of Science: Citation searching
Scopus
Medline for Medicine
Inspec for Physics/Engineering
CAB abstracts for Environmental Research
Compendex for Engineering
 Biological Abstracts for Life sciences Research
 SciFinder Scholar for Chemistry and Material
Science
Mondays, 12:30 pm OUCS
What will these sessions cover?
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Database content
Available platforms
Searching
Locating full text
Setting up alerts
Saving references
Organising references through RefWorks
Scopus: types of publications
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Open access journals
Trade publications
Journals
Conferences
Patents - 12.7 million records
from 4 Patent Offices
Book series
Web resources
Many links to full text
Subject Coverage
Life Sciences
3,400 titles
Health Sciences
5,300 titles
Physical Sciences 5,500 titles
Social Sciences
2,800 titles
Content
 Publisher-submitted
records 1996  Medline records 1966  Content from other Elsevier databases*:
Embase 1970- Compendex 1970Geobase 1980
Content coverage etc. at
http://info.scopus.com/
Functionality
 Searching
 Limits
 Sorting
results
 Citation searching
 Search History
 Alerts
 Output
Strengths
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User friendly, intuitive
Good for free-text, keyword searching
Good for any science topic
Simultaneous web and patent searches
Citation searching (back to 1996)
Alerts, to keep you up to date with research
Many links to full text
Regular updates/improvements
Good help pages and online support
Weaknesses
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controlled vocabulary/ subject
heading searching
 Citation searching more
comprehensive in Web of Knowledge
 Clinical queries - use Medline /
PubMed
Other features
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searches
the web via
SCIRUS,
Elsevier’s
science search
engine
 www.scirus.com
Why use Scopus?
 Scholarly
, interdisciplinary content
 Weekly or daily updates
 Complex searching and refining results
 Searches databases and the web
simultaneously
 Search history can be viewed
 Current awareness alerts can be set up
 Easy to set up bibliography of results
Sample search:
Climate change and fisheries
Features for demonstration
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Searching
Limits
Web results
Database results
Sorting
Link to article (TOUR)
Save search as Alert
Citations
Output
Topics you can try…
 What
are the ethical implications of face
transplants?
 How does solar power help with the
problem of global warming?
 How is airplane safety affected by metal
fatigue?
Next week’s session
Medline for Medicine