15th October 2008
SCOPUS Demo for Academicians
Information Resource Centre recently conducted a demo and training session on SCOPUS database at IRC Auditorium. The session was facilitated by Ms. Jo-an from Elsevier, the company which publishes SCOPUS. It is the largest abstract and citation database of research literatures and quality web resources including 15,000 peer reviewed journals published by 4,000 international publishers covering scientific and technical as well as medical and social sciences subject areas.
The SCOPUS database offers worldwide coverage, and more than half of its content originates from Europe, Latin America and the Asia Pacific region. SCOPUS also covers 386 million web resources, including 21 million patents. In order to gain comprehensive input regarding SCOPUS database, IRC sent invitation to lecturers and post graduate students to attend the demo. Fortunately, the scheduled demo received good feedback from the participants.
Basically the demo did covered on the following:
As a university:
- How SCOPUS can help with analyzing an institution’s research profile.
- To use it as one of bibliometric indicator by THES-QS agency in rating the international university.
- Track research trends and identify hot topics.
As a writer:
- How to search for your own research profile on SCOPUS, see who has been citing you, analyze the research you have influenced.
- H-index – what it is, how your own H-index is derived and practical applications of the H-index.
- To view all citations that your articles has received from other articles covered by SCOPUS.
As a researcher:
- How to use SCOPUS Citation Tracker tool to do citation analysis.
- Using SCOPUS to improve the way you currently do information gathering.
- Make connections with fellow researchers within or across disciplines.
- To know high-impact and indexed journals in SCOPUS.
- To browse cited refernces of articles published from 1996 onwards and make connections across subject areas.
The SCOPUS trial for IRC had been extended until 30 November 2009. Subscription will start from 1st December 2008 until 30 November 2009. For inquiries, please contact Mr. Shamsul Rizal Ibrahim, Executive Serial & Online Services via email to: shamsulrizal_ibrahim@petronas.com.my
