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2 November 2016
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1. Comprehensive / International
2. Multidisciplinary
3. Diverse publication types
4. Relevancy
5. Scholarly (peer-reviewed?)
6. Full-text availability
7. Powerful search options but easy-to-use
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Comprehensive
Scopus includes content from more than
5,000 publishers
62M records from 22K serials
Updated daily
Records back to 1823
Articles in Press from > 3,750 titles
3,715 active Gold Open Access journals
indexed
Multidisciplinary
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21,568 peer-reviewed journals 90K conference 531 book series 27M patents
361 trade journals events 30K Volumes / 1.2M
7.3M conference items From 5 major patent
Full metadata, abstracts and papers offices
cited references (refs post- 119,882 stand-alone - WIPO
1995 only) books - EPO
Funding data from Mainly Engineering 974K items - USPTO
acknowledgements and Computer - JPO
Citations back to 1970 Sciences Focus on Social - UK IPO
Sciences and A&H
Relevancy
40 different languages covered
105 different countries
Citations for all articles 1970-present
Abstracts
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TITLE OF PRESENTATION
Full-text
Click this link to view the full text of the article. The link appears
only if you are entitled to the full text of this article. If not entitled,
your librarian may arrange to use this link to display an alternate
page.
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TITLE OF PRESENTATION
Use operators
Boolean operators
- and, or, and not
Proximity operators
- pain W/15 morphine finds articles in which "pain" and "morphine" are no
more than 15 terms apart.
- behavioural PRE/3 disturbances finds articles in which "behavioural"
precedes "disturbances" by three or fewer words.
To find exact phrase use braces
- {oyster toadfish}
To find loose phrase, use double quotation marks
- heart attack
Use * to replace any number of characters
- he* will match any word starting with he, such as he, her, help, hello,
helicopter
Use ? to replace one character
- he? Will match hem, hen, etc.
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o Year
o Author Name
o Subject Area
o Document Type
o Source Title
o Keyword
o Affiliation
o Country
o Source Type
o Language
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TITLE OF PRESENTATION
3. Analyze results
Bradfords law = Within any subject field, a small number of journals produce the
majority of the essential literature. Important to determine the core journals of a
given subject area.
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Lotkas law = In any given subject field there are a small number of highly
productive scientists and a large number of scientists with low productivity.
Important to find the core authors by looking at their volume of publications in the
field.
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Sort by . Cited by
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TITLE OF PRESENTATION
Scholarly Activity
(E.g Mendeley
readers)
Scholarly
Commentary
- Altmetric.com
- Blogs, Wikipedia
Mass Media
- Twitter
- Facebook
- Google+
- Reddit
- Pinterest
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Demonstration
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TITLE OF PRESENTATION
Conclusion
Blog.Scopus.com
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Thank you
l.schoombee@elsevier.com