1. SCOPUS for Science and Medicine Gabriella Netting Gabriella Netting gabriella.netting@ouls.ox.ac.uk gabriella.netting@ouls.ox.ac.ukgabriella.netting@ouls.ox.ac.uk Penny Roberts Penny Roberts penny.roberts@ouls.ox.ac.uk penny.roberts@ouls.ox.ac.ukpenny.roberts@ouls.ox.ac.uk 16 January, 2008 16 January, 2008

2. Science WISER for Hilary Term: http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/services/ training/wiser/science http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/services/ training/wiser/science

3. If you get stuck… Subject specialists: Bio- and Environmental Science roger.mills@ouls.ox.ac.ukBio- and Environmental Science roger.mills@ouls.ox.ac.uk roger.mills@ouls.ox.ac.uk Physical Sciences:Physical Sciences: ljilja.ristic@ouls.ox.ac.uk ljilja.ristic@ouls.ox.ac.ukljilja.ristic@ouls.ox.ac.uk Medical SciencesMedical Sciences juliet.ralph@ouls.ox.ac.uk juliet.ralph@ouls.ox.ac.ukjuliet.ralph@ouls.ox.ac.uk

4. What is your subject? A. Medicine B. Bio- Environmental Sciences C. Physical Sciences D. Social Sciences E. Other

5. Are you... A. An undergraduate B. Post-graduate / Research Student C. Academic/Research staff D. Other

6. What is Scopus?  Scopus is a large abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources.  Works with SCIRUS search engine

7. What does it have?  15,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000 publishers (patents, open access journals, conference proceedings, book series, etc)  33 million abstracts  Results from 386 million scientific web pages  21 million patent records from 5 patent offices

8. Added value:  Intuitive searching  Tools to sort, refine and quickly identify results  Alerts to keep you up-to-date on new articles matching your search query, or by favourite author  Many full text links

9. Scopus : “the broadest source of STM and Social Sciences information” 14,20014,200 2,7002,7002,5002,5004,5004,5005,9005,900 Life & Health (100% Medline) Chemistry Physics Engineering Biological Agricultural Environmental Social Sciences Psychology Economics 4,000 publishers STM & Social Sciences.

10. Content   Medline records 1966 –   Content from other Elsevier databases*: Embase 1970- Compendex 1970- Geobase 1980-

11. Functionality  Searching  Limits  Sorting results  Citation searching  Search History  Alerts  Output

12. Why use Scopus?  Scholarly, interdisciplinary content  Weekly or daily updates  Complex searching and refining results  Searches databases and the web simultaneously  Search history can be viewed  Current awareness alerts can be set up  Easy to set up bibliography of results

13. Strengths  User friendly, intuitive  Inter-disciplinary academic content  Good for any science topic  Good for free-text, keyword searching  Simultaneous web and patent searches  Citation searching (back to 1996)  Alerts, to keep you up to date with research  Many links to full text  Regular updates/improvements  Good help pages and online support

14. Weaknesses  No controlled vocabulary/ subject heading searching  Citation searching more comprehensive in Web of Knowledge  Clinical queries - use Medline / PubMed

15. Other features  Also searches the web via SCIRUS, Elsevier’s science search engine  www.scirus.com

16. Why Scirus?  To pinpoint scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data on the Web  To find the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles, patents, pre prints, theses and journals that other search engines miss.

17. Why Scirus cont.  Filters out non-scientific sites (e.g. REM )  Searches a combination of web information, preprint servers, digital archives, repositories and patent and journal databases

18. Scopus tutorial This is available from: Oxlip/Title/Scopus/Online Tutorial from Informs

19. Presentation is available: http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/rsl/ training

20. Sample search: What are the effects of climate change and global warming on fisheries Search as: Search as: (climate change OR global warming) AND fisheries

21. Would you now feel confident to use Scopus? A. Yes. B. Need more practice. C. No.

22. Would you consider using Scopus for your own work? A. Yes. B. No. C. Maybe

23. Topics you can try…  What are the ethical implications of face transplants?  How does solar power help with the problem of global warming?  How is airplane safety affected by metal fatigue?

24. Next week’s session Resources for Mathematics and Computing