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Inside Scopus - news for librarians

Letter from the Editor | Scopus Director Jaco Zijlstra looks back at 2006 and ahead to 2007 | As a matter of fact | Scopus RSS feeds lead to increased usage
Content - our most important aspect | Confessions of a user | This just in | Conference connection

As a matter of fact

  • As a matter of fact

    Scopus 2006 Milestones
    Looking back at 2006, we can point to significant, industry-leading product enhancements that continue to set Scopus apart. Included among these are:

    • Over 2,200 titles have been added to Scopus in the last two years. The continuous addition
    of new titles and book series is approved by an independent Content Selection and Advisory Board.
    • Scopus Citation Tracker is a user-friendly way to more easily and efficiently check and track citation data to gain intelligence about articles, authors and their own published work and evaluate research trends over time.
    • Scopus Author Identifier enables author disambiguation. It does the hard work for users by automatically matching variations of an author’s name and distinguishing between authors with the same name.
    • Capability to disclose results from your own local institutional repositories and digital archives such as theses, lecture notes, presentations, manuscripts and prepress papers via our new Selected Sources feature.
    • PatentCites allows users to track how primary research is practically applied in patents incorporating citations into a single set of Scopus search results.
    • WebCites is the first step towards enabling Scopus users to track the influence of peer-reviewed research on Web literature.
    • HTML feeds automatically “harvest” new articles written by your institution’s authors or any other “hot topics” of interest to your users that can be fed to your library’s website. It is an excellent way to publicize your institution’s research accomplishments both internally and externally.
    • Source Browse was developed in response to customer requests to increase the transparency
    of Scopus’ content coverage. Major improvements have been made to Source Browse by displaying more information about each source’s coverage in Scopus.
    • Over 500,000 abstracts are now linked to chemical structures, compounds and reactions in MDL's DiscoveryGate.