Introduction about Scopus

Scopus, launched in November 2004, is the largest abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. With over 18,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, SciVerse Scopus offers researchers a quick, easy and comprehensive resource to support their research needs in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and, more recently, also in the arts and humanities.
 
SciVerse Scopus at a glance July 2010:
 
More than 18,000 titles:

• 17,000 peer-reviewed journals (including 1,200 Open Access journals).
• 600 trade publications.
• 350 book series.
• 3.7 million conference papers from proceedings and journals.

42.5 million records:

• 22 million records with references back to 1996 (of which 78% include references).
• 20.5 million records pre-1996 which go back as far as 1823.

359 million scientific web pages indexed via Scirus.
24 million patent records from five patent offices .
 
“Articles-in-Press” from over 3,500 journals .
 
Features and functionality designed to support and improve researchers’ workflow, including:

• A simple and intuitive interface.
• Linking to full-text articles and other library resources.
• Author Identifier to automatically match an author’s published research including the h-index.
• Citation Tracker to simply find, check and track citations in real-time.
• Affiliation Identifier to automatically identify and match an organization with all its research output.
• Journal Analyzer provides a quick insight into journal performance.
• Alerts, RSS and HTML feeds to stay up-to-date.
• Document Download Manager to easily download and organize multiple full-text articles simultaneously.
• Interoperability with SciVerse ScienceDirect, Reaxis and ProQuest’s CSA Illumina.
• Data export via bibiliographic managers such as RefWorks, EndNote and BibTeX.