Transcript Presentation

SCOPUS for Science and
Medicine
Gabriella Netting
[email protected]
Penny Roberts
[email protected]
16 January, 2008
Science WISER for Hilary Term:
http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/services/t
raining/wiser/science
If you get stuck…
Subject specialists:
• Bio- and Environmental Science
[email protected]
• Physical Sciences:
[email protected]
• Medical Sciences
[email protected]
What is your subject?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
A
B
C
D
E
F
Medicine
Bio- Environmental Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences
Other
Are you...
A.
B.
C.
D.
A
B
C
D
E
F
An undergraduate
Post-graduate / Research Student
Academic/Research staff
Other
What is Scopus?
 Scopus
is a large abstract and citation
database of research literature and quality
web sources.
 Works
with SCIRUS search engine
What does it have?

15,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000
publishers (patents, open access journals, conference
proceedings, book series, etc)

33 million abstracts

Results from 386 million scientific web pages

21 million patent records from 5 patent offices
Added value:

Intuitive searching
 Tools to sort, refine and quickly identify results
 Alerts to keep you up-to-date on new articles
matching your search query, or by favourite
author
 Many full text links
Scopus: “the broadest source of STM and
Social Sciences information”
4,000 publishers
5,900
4,500
2,500
2,700
14,200
.
Life & Health
(100% Medline)
Chemistry
Physics
Engineering
Biological
Agricultural
Environmental
Social Sciences
Psychology
Economics
STM &
Social Sciences
Content
 Medline
records 1966 –
 Content
from other Elsevier databases*:
Embase 1970Compendex 1970Geobase 1980-
Functionality
 Searching
 Limits
 Sorting
results
 Citation searching
 Search History
 Alerts
 Output
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
Strengths










User friendly, intuitive
Inter-disciplinary academic content
Good for any science topic
Good for free-text, keyword searching
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
 No
controlled vocabulary/ subject
heading searching
 Citation searching more
comprehensive in Web of Knowledge
 Clinical queries - use Medline /
PubMed
Other features
 Also
searches
the web via
SCIRUS,
Elsevier’s
science search
engine
 www.scirus.com
Why Scirus?

To pinpoint scientific, scholarly, technical and
medical data on the Web

To find the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles,
patents, pre prints, theses and journals that other
search engines miss.
Why Scirus cont.
 Filters
out non-scientific sites (e.g. REM )
 Searches
a combination of web
information, preprint servers, digital
archives, repositories and patent and
journal databases
Scopus tutorial
This is available from:
Oxlip/Title/Scopus/Online
Tutorial from Informs
Presentation is available:
http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/rsl/
training
Sample search:
What are the effects of climate change
and global warming on fisheries
Search as:
(climate change OR global warming)
AND fisheries
Would you now feel confident to use
Scopus?
A.
B.
C.
A
B
C
D
E
F
Yes.
Need more practice.
No.
Would you consider using Scopus for
your own work?
A.
B.
C.
A
B
C
D
E
F
Yes.
No.
Maybe
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
Resources for
Mathematics and
Computing