We have a new tutorial on how to find articles using Scopus Database.

Scopus is a very large multidisciplinary abstract and citation database, covering most subject areas very well. It is a powerful research tool, with useful features for sifting through search results, making it suitable for literature reviews or citiation searching.
View the tutorial and try using Scopus. If you have any queries about it, please contact us.

This is a reminder, if you haven't already done so, to check out this new-ish database. First introduced to Massey in 2008, it has been growing in popularity. Many people have told us that they are finding more quality articles on their topics using Scopus than on other databases we hold.

Scopus is a very large multidisciplinary database, covering most subject areas very well. One exception unfortunately is the humanities which are still best served by other databases.

Scopus is a very powerful tool for examining the relationships between articles. Like Web of Science, you can see an article's references, who has cited it, and similar articles (based on references in common). However, in Scopus, the layout of references in particular is very straightforward, with links to those articles (if available) and the number of times they have been cited. Great for exploring the literature!

If you are already familiar with Scopus, you will be pleased to know that they have improved their search interface. Instead of being limited to two search boxes, you can now add as many as are necessary for your topic. Results lists in Scopus are often large, but are easy to refine using source journals, authors, and broad subject areas. To get to Scopus, either go to your Subject Guide or find it using the Article Databases page.

As a researcher your most important asset is your name. Names form the primary link between published works and their creators and are the key aspect of almost all referencing systems. The presence of your name on an article or book allows you to claim credit for the work and to any subsequent citations of it. But how good a job does your name really do in identifying you among the thousands of scholars out there? Do you have the same name as other researchers? Have you worked at a number of different institutions or used more than one form of your name?

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The introduction of the Scopus database was one of Massey Library's big stories of 2008. Read the LOL article on Scopus here. Recently (and probably in order to keep up with Web of Science, its competitor product) Scopus has been ringing the changes on some of its search functions. If you are not already a searcher of Scopus you should probably give it a try; if you are you need to know about the following changes.

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Scopus, the Library’s newest database, will also be one of its most important. For many years Web of Science stood alone as the largest and most comprehensive multi-disciplinary database, but in recent years this new product from the Elsevier publishing empire has put up an impressive challenge. Not only does it cover a much wider range of titles – over 16,000 peer-reviewed journals – but it includes trade publications, conferences and books as well as linking to patents and high-quality web content through Elsevier’s Scirus search engine. Full coverage of the Medline (PubMed) database is also claimed.

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