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SCOPUS for Science and Medicine

Learn how to harness the power of Scopus, a comprehensive database covering peer-reviewed journals, patent records, and more. Explore its features, benefits, and limitations for effective research.

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SCOPUS for Science and Medicine

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  1. SCOPUSfor Science and Medicine Isabel McMann isabel.mcmann@ouls.ox.ac.uk Penny Roberts penny.roberts@ouls.ox.ac.uk 18th February, 2009

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

  3. What does it include? • Peer-reviewed journals • Results from scientific web pages • Patent records • Medline records 1966 – • Content from other databases: Embase 1970- Compendex 1970- Geobase 1980-

  4. Why use Scopus? • Scholarly, interdisciplinary content • Weekly or daily updates • Complex searching and refining results • Links to full text and OLIS • 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

  5. Functionality • Searching • Limits • Sorting results • Citation searching • Search History • Alerts • Output

  6. Web searching Also searches the web via SCIRUS Elsevier’s science search engine www.scirus.com

  7. Why Scirus? • Pinpoints relevant data on the Web • Finds the latest articles etc. • Filters out non-scientific sites • Searches a combination of web sources

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

  9. 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

  10. Next week’s session Resources for Geography and Environment Monday 23rd February at OUCS – book online

  11. Your subject specialists: • Bio- and Environmental Science: • roger.mills@ouls.ox.ac.uk • Physical Sciences: • ljilja.ristic@ouls.ox.ac.uk • Medical Sciences: • juliet.ralph@ouls.ox.ac.uk

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

  13. 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?

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