1. Scopus: What’s new? Brie Betz Account Development Manager, Elsevier
08 July 2008 – University of Waterloo

2. Scopus Facilitates Major Research Tasks
1. Literature Research
2. Research Evaluation
Here are some of the most common user tasks that we have identified through our user testing. And we have found that users use data to fulfil two goals…
In the first place “Literature Research”
And secondly “Research Evaluation”

3. Scopus Facilitates Major Research Tasks
1. Literature Research
2. Research Evaluation
Research Subject Overview
Find Relevant Articles
Currency
Expansion
Trends
Find author-related information
Gather
all of an
author’s
work
Affiliation,
co-authors,
publication
sources
Evaluate scholarly productivity
Here are some of the most common user tasks that we have identified through our user testing. And we have found that users use data to fulfil two goals…
In the first place “Literature Research”
And secondly “Research Evaluation”

4. Agenda Easier to use, search and find information in Scopus
Searching and browsing of cited references
More and flexible clustering categories
Document Download Manager
Content becomes even more current and more precise, while expanded indexing retrieves more results
Articles-in-Press
Expanded implementation of controlled index terms
Evaluating Research
Affiliation Identifier
Journal Analyzer
TopCited

5. Searching and browsing of cited references
Can I find all references of an article, an author or group of authors in one overview?
Who is citing my work and where am I cited?
Which sources are actually used in the library?
Every search will now feature an additional results tab – marked “More” – which displays the references that match a given query. These are results derived from the references section(s) in Scopus’ documents and not covered by Scopus as such (e.g. books, thesis and older articles). As a consequence it will be easier to locate relevant results within approximately 50 million additional references and, wherever possible, link through to the relevant full-text sources.

6. More and flexible clustering categories
Already extremely popular with users, the Refine Results feature will be further enhanced with the addition of the following categories: language of the full-text article, source type and article-level keywords. This allows users to manage their search results more effectively, easily pinpointing the information they are looking for. As an additional benefit, users will be able to customize which dimensions they wish to have displayed with the intuitive drag and drop functionality. Settings can be stored in My Profile.
How will I be able to select only peer-reviewed material in Scopus?
How can I select articles only in my own language?

7. Document Download Manager
Enables its users to download and rename multiple full-text articles simultaneously, reducing the procedure from minutes to seconds
Researchers can initiate the download of up to 50 full-text articles simultaneously from the Scopus results list
Amsterdam – February 19, 2008 – Scopus®, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality Web sources, today announced that it has partnered with QUOSA to introduce the Document Download Manager, a new tool that enables its users to download and rename multiple full-text articles simultaneously, reducing the procedure from minutes to seconds. With Document Download Manager researchers can initiate the download of up to 50 full-text articles simultaneously from the Scopus results list. In some cases this can be done with as few as three clicks in total versus the approximately 150 clicks needed to do so without the Document Download Manager. The tool, freely available in Scopus, will further save researchers time by automatically renaming the downloaded full-text articles according to a user-chosen naming convention. Traditionally, full-text articles have default names which can vary from a random set of letters and numbers to complicated and lengthy URLs. The Document Download Manager will provide the user with the option to choose a meaningful naming convention that will then be accredited to all the articles downloaded via Scopus, enabling the user to organize their files quickly and easily. "The procedure of being able to directly download articles simply and with my own naming options is a great idea. It helps me to easily and quickly organize my retrieved results on my own computer and thus saves time and effort. It makes it easy to deal with results that I select for further analysis and review", says Tefko Saracevic, Ph.D, Professor II, School of Communication, Information and Library Studies at Rutgers University. The Document Download Manager will significantly save time on repetitive and laborious tasks. “As we are committed to helping researchers increase their productivity, it is a great pleasure to offer a functionality that significantly reduces the time spent on gathering and organizing information. In the end, it is the analysis that adds value.” says Niels Weertman, Director Scopus. This service is the outcome of a partnership with QUOSA, the supplier of full-text article retrieval, organization and searching solutions. “We are very excited about our partnership with Scopus”, says Malcolm MacKenzie, President of QUOSA. “It is a powerful way of extending some of our key functionality to an important user base. Scopus’ QUOSA-powered Document Download Manager will be a major boon to researchers as it frees them from some of the tedious aspects of acquiring and managing PDFs. And, of course, it is seamlessly integrated with QUOSA Information Manager’s full-article organization function.”

8. Agenda Easier to use, search and find information in Scopus
Searching and browsing of cited references
More and flexible clustering categories
Document Download Manager
Content becomes even more current and more precise, while expanded indexing retrieves more results
Articles-in-Press
Expanded implementation of controlled index terms
Evaluating Research
Affiliation Identifier
Journal Analyzer
TopCited

9. 90% have abstracts and these will be available on Scopus 1-4 months earlier than the official publication date
As soon as the article is final, the references will be added to Scopus.
Articles-in-Press
Researchers need to be up-to-date on latest developments in their research area. What’s more up-to-date than an article in early publication stage? Scopus will be the first Abstract & Citation database to offer articles in pre-publication stage across all subject areas. Users will be able to find journal articles on Scopus prior to its official publication (e.g. prior to assigning a page number). 90% of these so-called Articles-in-Press have abstracts and these will be available on Scopus 1-4 months earlier than the official publication date (depending on the individual title). An Article-in-Press is not yet the final publication version of an article. It represents an early version which is still subject to insertion of changes and/or corrections by the author or publisher. References of this article might also be impacted by changes and/or corrections. As a result of this, to include the references from Articles-in-Press in Scopus might cause incorrect citation counts for an article. As soon as the article is final, the references will be added to Scopus. Although initially applied to journals published by Elsevier and Springer/Kluwer Academic, other publishers will start participating in this partnership from 2008.

10. Expanded implementation of controlled index terms
Part of the value add researchers receive from Scopus is the addition of index terms, which improve the recall of a keyword search. With this release, Scopus will further enhance keyword searching by making more index term levels searchable. This will allow for finding even more articles. For example, the MeSH minor headings from MEDLINE and EMTREE mentioned index terms from EMBASE will be searched in a keyword search and displayed on the expanded record page view.

11. Agenda Easier to use, search and find information in Scopus
Searching and browsing of cited references
More and flexible clustering categories
Document Download Manager
Content becomes even more current and more precise, while expanded indexing retrieves more results
Articles-in-Press
Expanded implementation of controlled index terms
Evaluating Research
Affiliation Identifier
Journal Analyzer
TopCited

12. Identifies and matches an institution's name variants
• Groups an institution's research output
• Turns a daunting task into a simple research process
Today a user would spend at least 2 hours to find all the publications of one institution due to checking all the name variants. With the upcoming Scopus Affiliation Identifier a user will find all publications from a single institution in just a few minutes. Finding all the publications from a single institution is notoriously difficult, just as it is to find all the work belonging to one author. There may be many alternate versions of a name, they are often spelt or recorded differently by individual sources, an institute may change its name on a number of occasions and names of institutes can also be similar to one another. MIT, for example, has more than 1700 name variants in Scopus. Following the launch of the Scopus Author Identifier early 2006, Scopus will now be the first database to offer its users the ability to identify all the research output belonging to an institution or organization with 99% accuracy and 95% recall. The Scopus Affiliation Identifier increases the accuracy and completeness of search results by automatically matching and de-duplicating institute and organization names. A unique identifier number is assigned to all the affiliations found in Scopus. Documents have been successfully matched to an affiliation through the use of a sophisticated algorithm. Additionally an extensive two tier process of list mapping was required to attain the high levels of data accuracy required by the product. This new feature will benefit a number of our user communities. Deans, provosts, faculty heads, senior researchers and bibliometricians will be interested in using this feature to make resource allocation decisions. It will help them identify centers of excellence and evaluate collaboration behavior by looking at: who is well cited by subject field in their institute, who they have been cited by, in which fields they have been cited most, and who they have cited most. They can then go on to evaluate and benchmark themselves against other institutes. These types of analyses are growing in importance with the introduction of the RAE (Research Assessment Excise) in the UK and the RQF (Research Quality Framework) in Australia. Finally, researchers can use this feature to review their own research strengths by evaluating the impact their articles have within the broader perspective of the institute’s complete body of research output. It is important to note that citation behavior varies across subject disciplines which means that when citations are used for evaluation purposes these differences in behavior need to be taken into account. The Scopus Affiliation Identifier may not perform the analysis for our users but it will save them valuable time in identifying and matching all the work that they need for their evaluation purposes. The Beta version of the Scopus Affiliation Identifier will be launched by the end of 2007, allowing users to find all the publications. The Beta version will allow users to search from the ‘Search Tab’ and list the results in a simple interface design. The quality of the data in the Beta version and the final version are the same, only the interface functionalities will improve the user’s experience. In the first half of 2008, the fully fledged version of the Scopus Affiliation Identifier will be launched. It will offer functionalities similar to the Scopus Author Identifier e.g. group unmatched affiliation profiles, affiliation details pages and option to provide feedback. Scopus is the first major database to systematically attempt the disambiguation of institutions, companies or sponsor organizations; in doing so it will offer its users a unique opportunity to take the guesswork out of affiliation searching.

13. Select up to 10 journals in a specific field
Quick, easy access to a transparent and objective overview of the journal landscape going back to 1996
Select up to 10 journals in a specific field
Results are uploaded into graphs to see how journals are performing relative to each other

14. Scopus TopCited (www.topcited.com)

15. More Information and Documentation
Website for product descriptions – link from Scopus home page. Requires a separate username and password than the one used to access Scopus. This is available from Scopus personnel.
- User tips and user guides (available in four languages) are accessible from Scopus home page

16. Thank you. Brie Betz Account Development Manager Elsevier
360 Park Avenue South
New York, NY
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