You can now use Scopus to find articles and other sources for your research and coursework. Scopus is described as “the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources” (http://www.info.sciverse.com/scopus/). Scopus can search across or within 4 main subject areas: Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Health Sciences and Social Sciences and Humanities.
Access Scopus from the University Portal‘s A-Z list of on-line resources.
Scopus includes lots of different tools and applications:
- search for authors and their citations
- use the Journal Analyzer to compare journals when considering submitting your work
- search across 45.5 million records!
Here is a list of tutorials to get you started:Â http://help.scopus.com/flare/Content/tutorials/sc_menu.html
For more information see the about Scopus page:Â http://www.info.sciverse.com/scopus/about/
Click here to download the PDF user guide.
For help with using Scopus, please contact the Information Centre.
Elizabeth Andrews
Subject Librarian