SCOPUS for Science and Medicine

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SCOPUS for Science and Medicine

• Gabriella Netting (gpn_at_bodley.ox.ac.uk)
• Nicola Mawer (ncm_at_bodley.ox.ac.uk)
• January 2007

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Wiser Science this term

• 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, 1230 pm OUCS

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What will these sessions cover?

• Database content
• Available platforms
• Searching
• Locating full text
• Setting up alerts
• Saving references
• Organising references through RefWorks

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Scopus types of publications

• 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

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Subject Coverage

• Life Sciences 3,400 titles
• Health Sciences 5,300 titles
• Physical Sciences 5,500 titles
• Social Sciences 2,800 titles

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Content

• Publisher-submitted records 1996 -
• Medline records 1966 -
• Content from other Elsevier databases
• Embase 1970- Compendex 1970- Geobase 1980-
• Content coverage etc. at
• http//info.scopus.com/

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Functionality

• Searching
• Limits
• Sorting results
• Citation searching
• Search History
• Alerts
• Output

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Strengths

• 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

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Weaknesses

• No controlled vocabulary/ subject heading
  searching
• Citation searching more comprehensive in Web of
  Knowledge
• Clinical queries - use Medline / PubMed

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Other features

• Also searches the web via SCIRUS, Elseviers
  science search engine
• www.scirus.com

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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

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Sample search

• Climate change and fisheries

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Features for demonstration

• Searching
• Limits
• Web results
• Database results
• Sorting
• Link to article (TOUR)
• Save search as Alert
• Citations
• Output

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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?

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Next weeks session

• Medline for Medicine