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WISER: What’s new in Science SCOPUS, SCIRUS and Google Scholar

Discover the latest advancements in Science databases: SCOPUS by Elsevier, SCIRUS, and Google Scholar. Learn about their features, strengths, weaknesses, and why bibliographic databases like SCOPUS are valuable resources for researchers. Stay updated with scholarly content and enhance your research capabilities.

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WISER: What’s new in Science SCOPUS, SCIRUS and Google Scholar

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  1. WISER: What’s new in ScienceSCOPUS, SCIRUS and Google Scholar Kate Williams and Juliet Ralph May 2006

  2. SCOPUS – New from Elsevier • Science & Social Science subjects • Award-winning: “Best STM Information Product 2005” • “the largest abstract and citation database”: • 15,000 journal titles • 27.7 million abstracts • Updated daily

  3. SCOPUS • www.scopus.com • From 4,000 publishers – not just Elsevier • Conferences • Patents - 12.7 million records from 4 Patent Offices • Many links to full text via TOUR button

  4. Content • Publisher-submitted records 1996 - • Medline records 1966 - • Content from other Elsevier databases*: • Embase 1970- - Fluidex 1974- • Compendex 1970- - Geobase 1980- • World Textile Index 1970- • Biobase 1994- (*Source: Deis and Goodman, 2005) • Content coverage etc at http://info.scopus.com/

  5. 14,200 2,700 2,500 4,500 5,900 Scopus: “the broadest source of STM and Social Sciences information” 4,000 publishers Life & Health (100% Medline) Chemistry Physics Engineering Biological Agricultural Environmental Social Sciences Psychology Economics STM & Social Sciences

  6. Strengths • User friendly: • “Scopus has been designed and user-tested so you can spend less time mastering databases and more time on research” http://www.info.scopus.com/detail/how/

  7. Strengths • Good for free-text, keyword searching • Good starting point for any science topic • Simultaneous web and patent searches • Citation searching (back to 1996) • Alerts, to keep you up to date with research • Many links to full text via TOUR button • Constantly being improved/updated!

  8. Weaknesses • Less strong on controlled vocabulary/ subject headings • author keywords plus some indexing terms from other Elsevier databases and Medline • Citation searching more comprehensive in Web of Knowledge • Limits are less sophisticated than some other databases • Clinical queries - use Medline / PubMed

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

  10. Scirus & Google Scholar • New internet search engines • Available to anyone, anywhere, anytime • Focus on academic material • Abstracts of journal articles, plus links to full-text if Oxford has a subscription • Also theses, books, reports, preprints etc • Advanced Search screen is offered, eg restrict by date, author, journal title

  11. Scirus • Focus on science and medicine • Sources and content explained and listed in “About us” • Searches Journals, Preferred Web, Other Web • Wildcards for truncation • Displays most recent first • Results can be sorted by date or relevance • Results can be marked, emailed, saved

  12. Google Scholar : Pros • All subjects covered • No advertising • Results ranked by relevance (but formula not always clear!) • “Cited by” links • “Library search” links to library catalogues • http://scholar.google.com

  13. Google Scholar : Cons • Less clear about sources and content searched • Questions over frequency of updates • Limited search capabilities compared with bibliographic databases • Not possible to re-sort results, or mark them for emailing or saving

  14. So why use bibliographic databases like Scopus? • Clearly listed, scholarly content • Updated weekly or daily • Indexing and subject headings • Complex searching possible • Eg using Wildcard symbols • Refine, sort, filter, limit your results • Search history can be viewed • Searches can be combined • Current awareness alerts can be set up

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