Dibner Library is pleased to announce that we now offer Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research and quality web sources. What does that mean for you? You can search over 18,000 journals, trade publications, and conference papers in the scientific, technical, medical, social sciences and humanities fields all from one simple interface. Plus, it contains over 350 million scientific web pages and 24 million patent records.

In addition to linking to a wide range of full text articles, Scopus offers plenty of tools for researchers to help make their workflow easier:

• 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.
• Alerts, RSS and HTML feeds to stay up-to-date.
• Document Download Manager to easily download and organize multiple full-text articles simultaneously.
• Data Export via bibiliographic managers such as RefWorks, EndNote and BibTeX.

Of particular interest to faculty, you can use Scopus to:

• find out who is citing you, and how many citations an article or an author has received.
• Analyze citations for a particular journal issue, volume or year.
• Use this information to complete grant or other applications quickly and easily.
• Use the refine results overview to quickly see the main journals, disciplines and authors that publish in your area of interest.
• Check out the work and citations of other authors.
• Click on the cited by and reference links to track research trends and make connections.

Scopus is part of the SciVerse Hub, which enables you to perform integrated searching of ScienceDirect,  an index of the scientific web, and Scopus. Get started with searching on Scopus by viewing this Search Tutorial. Visit the Tutorials Menu to learn more about special features available on Scopus.