Scopus and other Elsevier products - access restored

 Access has now been restored to Scopus and other Elsevier products!

Scopus Visit

Faculty and students are invited to an event hosted by Elsevier/Scopus. It is a come-and-go event where one can ask our Elsevier reps questions about Scopus. Lunch will be provided.

The coordinates:

Tuesday, April 7
MacKimmie Library Tower, Room 909 ("MLT909")
12:30-2:30 pm

Topics may include:
- General Scopus overview
- Focus on A&H content (but feel free to ask about Sci/Tech content!)
- Marketing ideas & usage

PSA - Scopus, ScienceDirect Scheduled Outage Saturday, April 4

...Enjoy your Saturday afternoon/evening instead!
Local times for the outage are 3 p.m. - midnight

Email from Elsevier:

On Saturday, 4 April, Scopus, ScienceDirect, and 2collab will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately nine hours starting at 10:00 p.m. UTC/GMT (6:00 p.m. EDT).

We apologize for the inconvenience,
Regards,
The Elsevier Team.

Update on Scopus' Document Download Manager - Publishers Covered

In February, I mentioned that Scopus' Document Download Manager feature wasn't as complete as our SFX coverage
(http://ucalgarysciengnews.blogspot.com/2008/02/
new-feature-in-scopus-elsevier-database.html)

Last week I heard back from Scopus, and it turns out that right now, the feature is only available for 25 publishers. Scopus is expanding this list, but here are the publishers for now:

AAAS
ACM
American Physical Society (APS)
American Institute of Physics
APA
Asian Network for Scientific Info.
Berkeley
Biomed Central
Blackwell (separate from Wiley)
Cambridge University Press
EDP/European Physical Society
Elsevier (incl. Harcourt Health imprints, Academic Press, Pergamon; excl. Masson)
Humana
Institute of Physics (IOP)
IEEE
International Union of Crystallography
Karger
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins (LWW)
Masson (separate from Elsevier)
Nature Publishing Group (NPG)
Oxford University Press
Sage
Springer (incl. Kluwer)
Taylor and Francis (T&F)
University of Chicago Press
Wiley (separate from Blackwell)
University of California Press

The American Chemical Society (ACS) is not on this list, but I was able to download an article from the Journal of the American Chemical Society. So if you discover that you can download articles from other publishers, let us know, and we can update this list.

New Feature in Scopus (Elsevier database)

Tired of saving pdfs from Scopus individually to your hard drive?

Well, Scopus has come up with a new "Document Download Manager" that lets you save its pdfs en masse. More info is on their Web page at:
http://www.info.scopus.com/february_08/

There's no mention of bibliographic management software like EndNote, RefWorks, etc., so one probably can't save directly to them, but this is a pretty big improvement nonetheless.

I am trying it out as I type. It's chugging in the background and it seems a bit slow - I selected three articles. An interesting thing is that even though the article is not available full-text in Scopus, the Manager will find a pdf copy anyway, and download it to your hard drive. This must be the relationship with "QUOSA" that the news release mentions. How does this compare with what SFX finds? Well, it doesn't seem to be as complete as SFX. This means that if Scopus' Document Download Manager doesn't download a pdf, that pdf could still be available in another database for download. Darn.

Access Scopus through the UofC via our Research Databases list, or:
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=
http://www.scopus.com

New Features in Science Direct--RSS and link to Scopus

Science Direct (Elsevier) has added some new features to makes your searching even easier.

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds - RSS is an established Web standard for the delivery of news headlines and other frequently updated content summaries. RSS feeds will be available on ScienceDirect for search results, citations and new articles, as well as more than 300 pre-selected topics. RSS feeds alert users immediately when Science Direct has new content of interest to them as soon as it is published, keeping users up-to-date with their chosen fields of interest.

Cited By in Scopus - Access to a wealth of citation information is made possible with Cited By in Scopus, which links to specific citations in Scopus - the largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality Web sources. Cited By in Scopus, which is included on the ScienceDirect article pages, also features a real-time citation count. A Scopus license is not necessary to view the citations for a given article but a ScienceDirect subscription is required

Scopus is accessible from our Research Databases page:
http://library.ucalgary.ca/researchdatabases/index.php