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Expanding the scientific desktop
Primary Source full text articlesOver 7 million articlesMore than 1,800 journals
Science focused web search engineMore than 200m science related pages
Navigation of global scientific informationCovers > 14,000 journals of > 4,000 publishers
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Focused Focused web web
informationinformation
AcademicAcademiclibrarylibrary
sourcessources
14,000 titles14,000 titles
4,000 4,000 publisherspublishers
STM &STM &Social Social
sciencessciencesWorldWorld’’ssLargestLargest
AbstractsAbstractsDatabaseDatabase
What is Scopus?
14,000 titles from more than 4,000 publishers80% of peer-reviewed literatureCitation and reference searching/browsingacross >26 million abstracts and 10 years of referencesThe shortest way to full text – 2 clicksFederated searching: web and local sourcesCitation Analysis
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Links via citationCurrent Article
Forward CitationForward Citation(Cited by)Backward CitationBackward Citation
(References)
Related Related DocumentsDocuments
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Product Update
Improvements in Refine Results
New functionality that allows the user to sort the author names and source titles in the refine results box alphabetically.
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WHAT IS ?
• Personal Bibliographic Creator for students and researchers
• Web-based – others require software installation on individual PCs
• You can import and organize references to create your own personal bibliographic database in seconds
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MANAGING YOUR REFERENCES : REFWORKS & SCOPUS
1. Create a quick bibliography with QuikBib• Free for all Scopus users• Available now!
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Create bibliography with QuikBib Step 1
From My list select documents
And click Bibliography…
Free For all Scopus Users
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Create bibliography with QuikBib - step 2
Click Create andView your
bibliography
“Very useful when writing a
paper for a class”(student)
“I could use this to share lists of relevant articles with others”
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MANAGING YOUR REFERENCES : REFWORKS & SCOPUS
1. Create a quick bibliography with QuikBib• Free for all Scopus users• Available now!
2. Direct Export to RefWorks• Free for all users who have both
Scopus and RefWorks
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Direct export
Select documents and click Export
For all users who Subscribe to
Scopus and RefWorks
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MANAGING YOUR REFERENCES : REFWORKS & SCOPUS
1. Create a quick bibliography with QuikBib• Free for all Scopus users• Available now!
2. Direct Export to RefWorks• Free for all users who have both Scopus and
RefWorks
3. Integrated Scopus/RefWorks features• For Scopus and RefWorks users who are
entitled to add-on module• Average price $ 2000 on top of RefWorks
product• Unique and innovative
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In Scopus: RefWorks icon
“I have an extremely good memory, but still think this is quite useful and convenient”.
Refworks iconIndicating if a document is
Already stored in Refworks
Displayed on :• Results page• Record Page
• Reference lists
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In RefWorks: notification
Notification when new ‘cited by’
“The notification that there are new citing documents keeps me up to date on relevant articles for my research”
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Integrated Scopus/RefWorks featuresThis live interaction with a bibliographic tool has never been achieved before.
Collecting, storing, organizing and creating bibliographies is now easier than ever before!
The convenience of this real-time interaction means that researchers:
Don’t have to remember which articles have already been identifiedHave no need to exit/enter different productCan find the new relevant research to build uponAre prompted to find any new relevant stuffCan save even more time!
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Full text links to non journal
cited documents on the web New!
links are full text links
They appear in cited references forDissertationsPatentsStandards Any type of document with more than 10 citations
No dead links, all links have been manually inspected
Link database update in September, October & December
Estimation: links to + 400 000 documents by end 2005
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Upcoming Feature ICitation Analysis Tools
You will be provided with the necessary citation tools to analyse :
The ‘impact factor’ of journalsHow citations are moving over time for
a particular department of an inst.a group of scientistsa group of articles from a scientistsetc, etc
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Good news for chemists…
Product integration: Bridging the gap between text search and structure search
Scopus–Crossfire CommanderScopus–Discovery Gate (available in August)
Users with both products can:Display chemical compounds and reactionswithin ScopusSearch for compounds in Scopus
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Linking from Scopus to Crossfire Commander
Only if user has access rights to Scopus and Beilstein !