Empower your users and strengthen your institute for the Future ___________________________________Scopus – the one solution to enable your community to achieve better results, faster

Date: 2009

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How do you cope with the explosion of information?

Less time to do more research Researchers spend 10.7 hours per week in 2009 finding information compared to 5.5 hours in 200636% of online searches fail to find relevant information 89% college students use Google to search literature only 2% startfrom a library web site

Trends in the information age

“Many young people do not find library-sponsored resources intuitive and therefore prefer to use Google or Yahoo instead: these offer a familiar, if simplistic solution, for their study needs.”

– Study of the British Library and JISC

84% of researchers report an increase in pressure to deliver morequickly than a year ago

Science is getting more competitive, more inter-national andmore inter-disciplinary

What about the quality of information?

Source: Outsell, Inc “STM End-User Survey Part 1 – Scientists and Engineers” - Volume 3, June 11, 2009College Students’ Perceptions of the Libraries and Information Resources: A Report to the OCLC Membership. Dublin,OH: OCLC, 2006.

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“How can I maximize the usage of my library resources…”“How can I maximize my return of invest-ment by making resources more visible…““How can I best support my community to become more efficient…”“How can I reduce spending time ongathering and analyzing information…”“How can I provide my community with easy access to the most relevant, comprehensive and up to date information available……and let them focus more on their actual research”

Do you recognize the same challenges?

This is what we learned from your peers

How about a solution that supportsall that

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Our users faced the same challenges!

“At our “Fachhochschule” we needed to do something about our library resources which were seriously under-utilized.”

“Scopus’ full-text linking capabilities have greatly expanded full text accessibility for our end users. Several of our largest resources have seen increases in retrieving full-text of more than 500%

“Too many student and researcher use Google to do their search outside the library. With Scopus we finally could offer a tool with easy access while assuring the trustworthiness and quality of the content.”

Leverage existing library resourcesTrusted source for research literature Drives information literacy

Georg Schmidt,Web ServicesLibrarian, GermanUniversity ofApplied Sciences

– Librarian, Optical Research Institute, Canada

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Our users faced the same challenges!

Broadest multidisciplinary coverageConsistent and transparent qualityFind key information faster

“A challenge for us is balancing the goals of meeting client needs with various resources and finding budgetary efficiencies.”

“Scopus has helped us do that. One of the best things about Scopus is that it is an affordable multidisciplinary database which is constantly updated not only in its content, but also with enhanced features.Broad disciplines can be integrated within a search and alerts and RSS feeds let us know when new or updated information is available.”

Alison WhiddonCoordinator, NaturalResources CanadaLibrary – Ottawa

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Nearly 18,000 Titles including

16,500 Peer Reviewed Titles

600 Trade Journals

350 Book Series

Extensive Conference Proceedings

40 languages are covered

“It is broader in scope but also richer in different kinds of content. It is much easier to use and therefore has more immediate impact.”

~16,500 600 350

What can Scopus do for you? – Broadest coverage!

A rich and ex-tended coverage including

Abstracts and citations from5000 publishers3,6 Million conference papers(10% of Scopus records)“Articles in Press” from more than3000 titles23 Million Patents

1,200 Open Access journals80% of all Scopus records have an abstractAbstracts going back to 1823Nearly 3,500 Arts & Humanities titles 430 m integrated scientific websites via Scirus.com

– Chief librarian, The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations

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What can Scopus do for you? – Quality, Accuracy and Speed!

Basic Search

Benefit from searching on Scopus as it only includes authoritative information

Peer Reviewed Results

Refine your search results, saving you time

Refine Search

Functionality

Assess abstracts, references and citations to determine the relevancy for your needs

Abstracts and Citation

Tracking

Full Text Articles or Subject Specific Databases

Search only quality materials

Get a fast overview what is available

Become efficient and effective

Be selective about what you read

“Scopus – I use it as it is more relevant, well structured and helps me to easily navigate and filter through the world’s research literature

- Information Specialist, Technical Institute, Germany

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An article in the field of Agriculture* refers to an article in the field of Life Sciences.

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The second article would have been missed withjust an Agriculture database, this article cites the third article

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The third article in the field of Agriculture was not referenced by the first article and may prove vitalfor the research

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What can Scopus do for you? – Connect disciplines and don’t miss anything!

* Cottrell, T.R. and Doering, T.L., Silence of the strands: RNA interference in eukaryotic pathogens, January 2003

Life Science AgricultureAgriculture

”For teaching purposes it isimportant to have the Webincluded as well. Scopus hasthis and this closes the gap forstudent education.”

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– Professor of Chemistry,Nice University

9Source: “The Role of Information in Innovation”, Martin Akel & Associates, January 2005

What can Scopus do for you? – View and Track an author’s workImportance of Access to the Expertiseof Other Researchers

38%

Extremely Vital

48%Vital

2%Not Important

SomewhatImportant 14%

Screenshot: Scopus Author Information

Amy Knapp, Assistant University Librarian for Public Services and Departmental Libraries, USA

“Author identification in Scopus is so easy to use and solves a problem that experienced users have long expressed a frustrationwith. It also builds on an existing strength of Scopus; supporting the collaboration between authors.”

Get an overview of an author at a glance

Navigate forward and backward in timeusing cited references

Alerts for an author’s new publications

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Screenshot Scopus Result Page

Refine resultsand easy

Turn complexity into simplicity for your community!

Direct links to full text

– Professor Peter Stambrook, University of Cincinnati, U.S.A.

Reduce training

Speed up research by enabling to assimilatea large volume ofdata quickly

“Plug and play”

Clean, Clear & Intuitive

”Advantages of Scopus are speed, speed, speed! I use Scopus for identifying proper citations, staying current in rapidly moving fields, and knowing whom to cite for grants..”

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Provide directions and easy access to trust-worthy global and regional quality contentSupport the quality of research while increasing the use of integrated library resourcesAppreciate quality, currency and comprehensiveness of contentBuild scientific knowledge and drive research through better toolsOptimize the use of library resources through direct linkingAid reporting and alerting needs to stayup to dateEducate students in the principles of scientific research

See how Scopus could work for you!

Customers confirmed that Scopus effectively helped to

“Considering this was my first use of Scopus it was extremely easy to use and allowed me to do multiple things at the same time.”

– Researcher, global defense techno-logy and security Institute