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2. 1 Scopus: designed for and by the end-user ICOLC meeting, Poznan, Poland, September 2005 Amanda Hart, Scopus Sales Manager, EMEA Eefke Smit, Managing Director, ScienceDirect and Bibliographic Databases

3. 2 Agenda  Introduction & review of Scopus today  Scopus is open and interoperable  Scopus sales model  Review of Scopus introductory offer  Scopus for consortia  A Glimpse into the future  Q&A

4. 3 Starting from users’ needs  Understand the researcher workflow so we can design better products  We significantly invest in user-based design

5. 4 The Researcher  Over last 3 years, Elsevier conducted hundreds of focus groups and onsite observation with scientists and researchers  To document the way scientists  Search for  Find and  Evaluate scientific literature and information

6. 5 What our partners say… We really liked the idea of going to the faculty, staff and students of the university to find out what they thought  The University of Toronto Library ( presently, the 3rd ranked ARL) was a development partner with Scopus for the last - give or take - 3 years. This initiative was new to us but we were very interested in their User Centred Design approach. We really liked the idea of going to the faculty, staff and students of the university to find out what they thought, after all, that is why we are here. Warren Holder, Univ of Toronto My own views of Scopus are extremely positive. Even past sceptics here at NJIT are encouraged by the results of their research  The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is also a Scopus development partner and we have had a great partnership with the database staff. (…) My own views of Scopus are extremely positive. Even past sceptics here at NJIT are encouraged by the results of their research. I have seen smiles on faces that I thought would never happen. The product is very easy to use. (…) All in all it does not only provide results after a search but it provides you with decision-making elements. Haymwantee P. Singh, NJIT

7. 6 What is Scopus?  The largest abstract & citation database of research information  Designed with users for optimal usability and findability and to be the easiest way to find relevant results fast  Citation Browsing: enables citation linking between different fields of study revealing new connections across disciplines  Specialized Author search  Personalization & customization features  Designed to be interoperable with other resources  Bibliographic management made easy via RefWorks  Bridging the gap between graphic and text searching with MDL

8. 7 Tasks Scopus Facilitates 1.Finding (new) articles in a familiar subject field  Assistance with grant applications  Seeing what the competition are doing 2.Finding author-related information  Articles by a specific author  Information to help evaluate a specific author 3.Staying up-to-date 4.Getting an overview or understanding of a new subject field 5.Finding connections between different areas of research

9. 8 Results page Combined Results Refine Results Entitled Full Text Checked at Library Sort by highest cited article

10. 9 Coverage Today  14,200+ journals from 4,000+ different publishers  Over 12,650 academic journals including:  100% Medline Journals  535 Open Access Journals  28 million records from the last 40 years  230 Million references added to all abstracts from 1996 onwards  200 million scientific web pages via Scirus  16 million patent records from 4 patent offices  750 conference proceedings  600 trade publications  Strong International Coverage  Content is updated daily

11. 10 Content - where are we going? 1.Completeness, both current and historical  Aim to be 100% cover-to-cover for the last 10 years  More back files from publishers 2.Continue to add value to the current content  Journal coverage – content selection committee  Web citations  Patent citations 3.New Content Types: Book Series; NDLTD 4.Currency: Articles-in-Press

12. 11 Scopus is interoperable 1.Scopus and the Web 2.Scopus and other library resources 3.Bibliographic management (with RefWorks) 4.Chemical Structure Summaries (with Beilstein)

13. 12 Scopus and the web  Fully integrated Web search via Scirus.com:  A unique science specific algorithm  Specific coverage of 200 million scientific sites/pages including author websites, university, government and corporate websites, institutional repositories, patents, dissertations  Tools to refine search and manage results  Transparent sources  User tests show Scirus performs better

14. 13  Full-text links to cited documents on the Web  links are full text links  They appear in cited references for  Dissertations  Patents  Standards  Any type of document with more than 10 citations  No dead links, all links have been manually inspected  Link database update in September, October & December  Estimation: links to + 400 000 documents by end 2005 Web Integration

15. 14 Ref: dissertation

16. 15 Scopus and Other Library Resources Now unlimited customizable library-defined links

17. 16 Federated search capabilities  Scopus is OPEN and allows federated Search in Via an XML gateway  XML is modern and stable technology compared to HTTP searching  ScienceDirect uses the same gateway  Metalib (ExLibris) and ENCompass (Endeavor) are already set up  Your own federated search systems can also be configured to search Scopus

18. 17 Bibliographic Management

19. 18 Results page Already saved to RefWorks

20. 19 Alert of NEW citations Link to citations in Scopus View record in Scopus View related documents in Scopus Direct author search into Scopus

21. 20 Chemical Structure Summaries  Users told us that:  When starting a literature search it is difficult to find factual information on compounds/reactions  When starting a structure search it is difficult to find a distinct set of relevant articles  Therefore we collaborated with sister company MDL to bridge the gap  We have built chemical structure summaries for records common to both Scopus and Beilstein  Just over 500,000 records are a match

22. 21 Finding Related Compounds

23. 22 Finding Other Relevant Documents Or a user can decide to go back to the literature (Scopus) and view all documents in Scopus with this compound.

24. 23 Scopus sales and subscription model

25. 24 Scopus subscription model  Subscription fee based on  Number of FTE’s – Academic institutions  Number of Researchers – Government institutions  Access to the entire database including full back-file  All functionality included  No simultaneous user limits  Web-based COUNTER-compliant usage statistics  Training and Helpdesk support available

26. 25 Scopus pricing  Population based  6 Price bands  From 40,000 FTEs  Banded List pricing:  25,000 Eur – 120,000 Eur  Custom pricing for very large organizations/sites  Discounts available

27. 26 Review of Scopus introductory offer

28. 27 Scopus Launch Offer  Limited offer available Jan – Aug 2005 – now closed  Offered to all Science Direct customers and consortia  Allows long period to evaluate Scopus  Risk free: contracts may include an opt out clause  Roll out to end users  Access period 2005 – 2007  3 years access for payment of 1 year fee (2007 fee)  Flexible payment plans and discounts:  Spread payments  Discounts for early payments  Discount for early commitments (no opt out)  Over 50 consortia in 33 countries are participating

29. 28 Benefits of Introductory Offer  Evaluate Scopus alongside other products over a long period (up to 2 years)  Allow users to familiarize themselves with Scopus gradually without taking existing products away  Make an informed buying decision  Based on usage  Based on users’ feedback  Based on your own and your peers experience  Budget management

30. 29 Feedback on launch programme  “This is exactly how products SHOULD be launched into the academic market” Librarian, Large UK university  “We ended up with a decision in favor of Scopus. It suited our customer profile at NJIT and almost a year later we are ever more happy with the decision.” Haymwantee P. Singh, New Jersey Institute of Technology

31. 30 Scopus for consortia: Sales aspects

32. 31 Selling Scopus to Consortia  Elsevier has 10 years of experience  Varied consortium models:  All for one & one for all model  Tiered Approach  Hybrid models  Key principles:  # of members  Expenditure level  Term – one year vs multiple years  Agreement – one agreement vs multiple agreements  Invoice – one invoice vs multiple invoices  Discounts  Shared benefits  Administrative benefits

33. 32 Consortium discounts  Based on Science Direct expenditure  Tiered discounts based on total group expenditure  Applies to consortium agreements for non SD products – including Scopus  All members benefit from the overall spend level of the group  May not depend upon full participation

34. 33 A glimpse into the future

35. 34 Citation Overview  Gives users a visual indication of citation behaviour patterns… over any chosen set of articles e.g. from individual authors or institutions over any chosen time period within the last 10 years  For evaluation of research groups, authors, institutions  For applications for grants, jobs, tenure

36. 35 Identify the author of interest

37. 36 Citation overview

38. 37 Citation Overview: tester comments  “Useful to see citations over years”  “I would use this for my own articles”  “Paste this into my progress reports for my own papers”  “Quite useful when starting in a new area, to get an overview of a field”  “I could use it for evaluating an applicant”  “Use to propose new research”  “I can limit to someone I know to see what they cite”  “Useful for tracking authors”  “To evaluate the quality of an author”

39. 38 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

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