Scopus
You can also find the link to Scopus on the Library’s Electronic Databases page.
What is it?
Scopus, from Elsevier, is the largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. It's designed to find the information scientists need. Quick, easy and comprehensive, Scopus provides superior support of the literature research process. Updated daily, Scopus offers:
- Over 15,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 publishers
across the sciences (More than 60% of titles are from countries other
than the US.)
- Life Sciences: 3,400 titles
- Health Sciences: 5,300 titles (including 100% coverage of Medline titles)
- Physical Sciences: 5,500 titles
- Social Sciences: 2,850 titles
- Over 12,850 academic journals including coverage of 500 Open Access journals
- 700 conference proceedings
- 600 trade publications
- 29 million abstracts (Abstracts go back to 1966.)
- 265 million references, added to all abstracts (References go back to 1996.)
- Results from 250 million scientific web pages
- 18 million patent records from 4 patent offices
- 100% coverage of Medline, including unique Medline journals
- 125 Book Series
- 80% of content is indexed with controlled vocabularies (including MeSH & EMTREE).
Why use it?
- You can quickly get to relevant content!
And, as a researcher:
- You can find out who is citing you, and how many citations an article or an author has received. You can also analyze citations for a particular journal issue, volume or year.
- You can use this information to complete grant or other applications quickly and easily.
- You can use the refine results overview to quickly see the main journals, disciplines and authors that publish in your area of interest.
- You may uncover important and relevant articles that you may otherwise miss.
- You can check out the work and citations of other authors.
- You can click on the cited by and reference links to track research trends and make connections.
- You can do this within or across disciplines you are interested in.
Where will I find it?
The link to Scopus is on the library’s Electronic Databases page.