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Web of Science and Scopus: A Comparative Review of Content and Searching Capabilities

shirley — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:41:02 +0000

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Reviewed By: Lutishoor Salisbury
Librarian/University Professor
Head, Chemistry and Biochemistry Library
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

The Charleston Advisor / July 2009

Peter Jacso review of Scopus June 2009

shirley — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:22:38 +0000

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Scopus has been continually enhanced since its debut in November 2004, both in terms of content and software. It offers now more than 38 million records, nearly 15 million with cited references. The massive efforts to fill in the gaps of coverage of many journals is to be applauded, but there are still serial publications with significant gaps in coverage even in the most precious 1996-2009 segment of the database, which should have been given top priority. more…..

Scopus Works with European Science Foundation to Expand Arts and Humanities Coverage

shirley — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:18:16 +0000

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First citation database to offer access to Arts and Humanities journals from over a thousand different publishers and content providers

AMSTERDAM, 10 June 2009 – Elsevier announced today that its flagship product Scopus®, the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, has almost doubled its current Arts & Humanities (A&H) titles to 3,500, by adding top global journals using the European Science Foundation’s European Reference Index for Humanities (ERIH). This marks the first time that many of the ERIH titles will be available through a global citation database at no additional cost.

Founded in 2001 by the European Science Foundation, ERIH provides scholars, libraries and other institutions with lists of high quality A&H journals to raise awareness of the titles as a resource for content and an avenue for publishing original research. Journals are included in the ERIH lists and categorized based on audience, distribution and reach, as well as influence and scope by expert scholarly panels from around the world. Scopus users can now search and access top-level A&H journal titles from all three categories included on the initial ERIH lists.

With the addition of the ERIH’s titles, Scopus can provide researchers with better access to national and international A&H journals. Subjects with the most journals include literature and literary theory (30% of new titles), general arts and humanities (22%), history (17%) and visual/performing arts (16%). More than half (60%) are published from the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region, 38% from the Americas and 2% are from Asia-Pacific.

Like the existing titles in Scopus, the new journals contain cited references that make previously unavailable bibliometrics data accessible. This information will now help A&H scholars more efficiently assess and measure research sources and output, as well as illustrate the broader influence of journal articles published. In addition, Scopus allows tracking of citations belonging to scholarly books – via the unique MORE tab.

Several prestigious and highly cited titles are now included in Scopus such as “Mind” (Oxford University Press), “Transactions of the Royal Historical Society” (Cambridge University Press) and “Modern Philology” (University of Chicago Press)

In order to acquire back content of many journals, Scopus partnered with Project MUSE, a not-for-profit platform founded by John Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library (MSEL) at John Hopkins University.

The Australian Research Council Selects Scopus for the evaluation of the Australian research landscape

shirley — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:17:25 +0000

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Scopus Custom Data will be the sole provider

Amsterdam, 20 February 2009 – Elsevier announced today that Scopus®, its flagship product and world’s largest abstract and citation (A&C) database, was chosen by the Australian Research Council (ARC) for its Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative.

The ERA initiative will assess research quality within Australia’s higher education institutions using a combination of indicators and expert review by committees comprised of experienced, internationally-recognized experts.

Scopus Custom Data will be the sole provider used to assess the country’s higher education research output for the ERA’s first group of science disciplines: Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences (PCE).

By leveraging the broad and rich content available in Scopus the ARC’s ERA initiative will evaluate 41 Higher Education Providers (HEPs) using international and national benchmarks.

“The ARC is committed to the development of a world-class research quality and evaluation system” Professor Sheil, CEO of the
ARC said.

“Identifying research excellence in this global environment is incredibly complex, which is why we are proud that the ARC will utilize Scopus to reach its ERA goals,” added Herman Van Campenhout, CEO Science & Technology for Elsevier. “Through this relationship, we hope to open doors for Australian universities by giving them a better understanding of where they stand in the research playing field, and where to invest scarce resources.”

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Scopus evolving…Features and Functionalities (By Elsevier)

shirley — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:07:28 +0000

Scopus Journal Analyzer

The Scopus Journal Analyzer gives editors, publishing teams, researchers and librarians quick, easy access to a transparent and objective overview of the journal landscape going back to 1996.

Performances of Journals can be easily evaluated and compared using the four graphical representations of the journals:

Total Citations displays the total number of citations the selected journals receive over the course of each year.

Articles Published shows the number of articles published by each journal over time.

Trend Line provides the number of citations received in that year, regardless of the publication date of the cited document, divided by the total number of documents published in that year.

% not cited shows the percentage of articles published in that year that have never been cited to date.

Click here for more information, or visit Elsevier Training Helpdesk for your guide to online training options and reference materials.

Scopus Affiliation Identifier

Clear decisions start here: The Scopus Affiliation Identifier automatically identifies and matches an organisation with all of its research output. It turns an expensive, laborious and time-consuming task into a simple search – leaving you with more time to analyse the results and make clear, informed decisions.

Find not only all documents belonging to your organisation but also

who collaborates with you
how many authors are affiliated to your organisation
which subject areas are publishing the most
search within your results for particular information you might be looking for, such as all the work done by a particular author, for instance.

Click here for more information, or visit Elsevier Training Helpdesk for your guide to online training options and reference materials.

Document Download Manager

The Document Download Manager has the capability to select, download and save up to 50 entitled full-text articles simultaneously. One can now manage downloads directly from the Scopus results list in an easy way that fits directly into their daily workflow. This unique tool, available to all Scopus users, improves both productivity and effectiveness significantly.

h index

The h index is a tool to evaluate an author’s body of work or a user-specified collection of selected articles. Complemented by unique graphs, it is available for all authors in Scopus.

An author’s h-index can be viewed by either clicking on the Scopus Citation Tracker on the author search results page or by viewing the author details page.

Click here for more information, or visit Elsevier Training Helpdesk for your guide to online training options and reference materials.

Scopus appeals to a wide range of users. What does it do for you?

As an administrator or policy maker:

Ensure decisions are made on informed, unbiased and credible research.

Analyse the influence of authors from an organisation within the global research community.
Identify leading research to attract grants.
Track and evaluate your researchers’ performance and benchmark the research output against other institutes.
As a Researcher:

Find relevant articles fast without duplicating your research or missing any important information.
Substantiate grant application by finding out who is citing whom – and how many citations an article or an author has.
As a Librarian:

Provide users with quick and immediate access to peer reviewed & indexed content and full text articles.
Provide image-based linking to full text articles which increase the visibility of, and access to, other library resources.
Support your collection management decision making thorough analysis of highly cited articles.
For More Information, contact:

Anne Harvey |a.harvey@elsevier.com

Linda Dunne |l.dunne@elsevier.com

Nigel Ashworth |n.ashworth@elsevier.com

SCOPUS TO EXPAND ARTS & HUMANITIES COVERAGE

shirley — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:17:37 +0000

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Elsevier announced today that its flagship product Scopus, the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, will be nearly doubling its Arts & Humanities (A&H) titles.