Getting to Know Scopus: Virtual Training for New Users
Getting to Know Scopus: Virtual Training for New Users
Getting to know Scopus
Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with bibliometric tools to track, analyze and visualize research. It contains over 22,000 titles from more than 5,000 publishers around the world, covering the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities. Scopus has over 55 million records dating back to 1823, 84 percent of which contain references dating from 1996.
Who Should Attend?
The primary audience for this course is:
- Beginning researchers doing analysis in their field, discovering collaborators, managing their scholarly presence
- Research officers assessing institutional productivity, evaluating publications by way of metrics, analyzing authors, collaborations and impact
- Librarians responsible for training researchers and students in using abstracting and indexing (A&I) databases, including scholarly communications librarians and subject librarians
What Will Be Covered?
In this session, we will cover the training fundamentals of:
- Basic search tactics—Documents, Authors, and Affiliations
- Exploring the author profile
- Leveraging search filters
- Exporting to a reference manager
- Q&A session
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Related LibGuide: Research Intelligence tools from Elsevier by Connie Stovall
- Date:
- Monday, November 8, 2021
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Faculty/Staff Graduate Students Postdoc Undergraduates
- Categories:
- Workshop