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2. Scopus Update November 2004 American University of Beirut Presented by:Amanda Hart a.hart@elsevier.com Date: 11 November 2004

3. 3 “Only librarians like to search; everyone else likes to find.” - Roy Tennant, California Digital Library

4. 4 How users are searching  Via the general Web  Growing in popularity  No integration with library  Limited access to bulk of relevant scientific information  Users expect:  Searching to be easy  To always find results  To instantly access content

5. 5 Why did we develop Scopus?  Scopus was created to improve on the current way of searching and selecting information, to enable new explorations and serendipity and to interact efficiently with other information sources in order to provide direct access to full text.  The focus of Scopus is on superior support of the literature research process - by finding relevant articles quickly and investigating current research relationships through citation information

6. 6 American University of Beirut: About our Partnership  AUB recruited as Scopus Development Partner in 2003  Access to Beta version from Dec 15 2003  Access to version 1 from Feb 21 2004  Several End User tests at each institution  AUB has been an excellent partner:  Internal promotion of Scopus to end-users  Appointment of Student Ambassadors  Announcements and information  Providing suggestions and feedback from users

7. 7 Scopus today  Facilitates major tasks researchers have:  Find new articles in a familiar subject field  Find author-related information  articles by a specific author  information that would help in evaluating a specific author  Staying up-to-date  Getting an overview or understanding of a new subject field

8. 8 Definitions: records with abstracts (1966 onwards)

9. 9 Records with abstracts & references (from 1996)

10. 10 Find (new) articles in familiar subject field

11. 11 Find (new) articles in familiar subject field

12. 12 Including results from scientific web

13. 13  Author search  Improved full-text links  New library integration features  ‘Refine results’ box will offer overview and management of all results (used to just be the first 1000)  Some bugs in export feature have been cleaned up, can now also export number of citations New functionality just released - as a direct result of user feedback

14. 14 Find author-related information

15. 15 Improved full-text links & library integration  Entire reload of our copy of CrossRef database  Improved quality  Improved links  Additional journals linked through algorithmic linking  Scopus’ knowledgebase of links to journals which are not in CrossRef - includes many OAI journals  Department level functionalities, for example  Library banner  Interlibrary loan  Linking set-up

16. 16  First version of citation tool  Volume/issue browse  My List  Patents Early next year – result of user feedback

17. 17 Major tasks researchers have  Find new articles in a familiar subject field  Find author-related information  articles by a specific author  contact information  information that would help in evaluating a specific author  Stay up-to-date  Getting an overview or understanding of a new subject field

18. 18 Identify the author of interest

19. 19 Citation overview

20. 20 Next step: exclude self citations

21. 21 What didn’t work

22. 22 User responses during user tests  “I like the breakdown over the years, to see pattern, trends”  “Important to rate how well our group is doing”  “The option to remove self-citations improves this features”  “I would have used this to decide where I want to go to grad school by comparing different professors”  “I like it as a tool to review candidates or grant writing”  “I can now see the number of citations per article”  “Nice to decide myself what to analyse”

23. 23 Volume/issue browse

24. 24 My List

25. 25 Patents via Scirus search

26. 26 Scopus coverage - end of 2004  14,000 titles (start year anywhere between ’66-’04)  4,000 publishers  Records with abstracts since 1966  Records with references since 1996

27. 27 Content types covered  14,000 titles, composed of:  12,850 academic journals  including 1,000 Medline Unique titles  including 400 Open Access titles  750 conference proceedings  400 trade publications  27 million records  Adding 1.3 million per year  230 million references

28. 28 Coverage per subject area  4,500 Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Engineering  5,900 Life and Health Sciences  2,700 Social Sciences, Psychology and Economics  2,500 Biological, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences  50 General Sciences

29. 29 Geographical distribution of publications 64% of Scopus titles are non-US based.

30. 30 How did we choose 14,000 titles?  Feedback showed that current all-science products insufficient  Users want to skip, not miss information  As a consequence  we talked to publishers  analysed other databases  discussed with experts and users  And concluded with our list of 14,000 titles

31. 31 How did we decide what references to add?  Designed to offer optimum support based on user behaviour  References from 1996 onwards fulfils 86% of actual usage  Abstract records with links to full-text as far back as 1966

32. 32  Content Selection Committee is made up of the 20 Scopus advisory board members and 10 subject librarians.  The Committee is responsible for:  Suggesting new titles for Scopus;  Evaluating and giving approval to the Scopus title list on a yearly basis;  Contributing to the overall content strategy. Adding new titles

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35. 35 www.scopus.com

36. 36 If there was a tool that could find the information you need - and maybe a few surprises along the way - you’d use it www.scopus.com