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Behind the scenes: the Scopus product team (III)

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on Tue, 04/08/2014 - 13:47

Part III of our "who are the people that work on Scopus?" series. In their own words, the Scopus Product Management team describes who they are, what their role is on the team and what they like most about working on Scopus and at Elsevier.

Gillian Griffiths, Senior Product Manager

Tell us about yourself.

From Liverpool, studied Biology/Psychology at University of York.

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Scopus content update: Books Expansion Project

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on Mon, 04/07/2014 - 13:19

In mid-2013 Scopus launched the Books Expansion Project to increase the Arts and Humanities content in Scopus and the project has been steadily moving along. To date, you can see more than 30,000 books in Scopus!

How do we select books to index? The selection policy for books content is on a publisher level (no individual book suggestions are considered), taking into account aspects such as: reputation of publisher, size and subject area of books list, availability and format of book content,

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Behind the scenes: the Scopus product team (II)

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on Fri, 04/04/2014 - 09:00

Part II of our "who are the people that work on Scopus?" posts. In their own words, the Scopus Product Management team describes who they are, what their role is on the team and what they like most about working on Scopus and at Elsevier.

Jessica Kowalski, Global Market Development Manager

Tell us about yourself.

I have worked in technology and research for over 10 years in both the public and private sectors.

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Behind the scenes: the Scopus product team

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified)
on Mon, 03/31/2014 - 22:18

So who are the people that work on Scopus? We thought it was time to let you meet them, in their own words. Rather than overwhelm you, I'll break this up into a few smaller groups. I asked everyone on our team the same 4-5 questions and here is what they had to say. My own "interview" is still to come...

First up, Senior Product Managers Dr. Wim Meester and Michael Habib and Market Development Manager Becky Brown.

Michael Habib, Senior Product Manager

ORCID:  orcid.org/0000-0002-8860-7565

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Scopus content update: the Arts & Humanities

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified)
on Mon, 03/31/2014 - 15:20

Scopus turns 10 this year (!) and we are doing a bit of looking back – and looking forward – to see how the database has grown from both a user and content perspective. One area that we thought would be interesting to focus on is the specific improvements Scopus has made in the coverage of the Arts & Humanities; below is a brief overview of a few content enhancement projects.

2008/2009

In 2008, Scopus covered approximately 2,000 Humanities titles.

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Scopus to add cited references for pre-1996 content

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on Thu, 03/27/2014 - 10:22

If anyone in our Amsterdam office sits near the Scopus team they may have overheard us tossing out numbers such as “1970”, “8 million” and “1996”. What do these numbers have in common exactly? They are all integral to the Scopus Cited References Expansion program which launched earlier this month and will (begin to) become evident with the Scopus interface in the fourth quarter of 2014.

The Scopus team is thrilled to officially announce the launch of the Scopus Cited References Expansion

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Scopus, Spinoza and the Arts & Humanities

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on Mon, 03/17/2014 - 13:21

Increasingly people are aware that Scopus is by far the largest scholarly database for the humanities. Out of 8,000 active journals and book series titles in the social sciences 2,600 are in Arts & Humanities. Next to that our books expansion program is beginning to show impressive numbers with thousands of monographs also being indexed in Scopus.

But perhaps less well known is that the influence of Arts & Humanities is also noticeable in other fields.

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Scopus celebrates Pi Day

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on Fri, 03/14/2014 - 00:33

Happy Pi day! 3.14159 (or the number otherwise known as Pi or π) is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. This irrational number has long intrigued mathematicians and has even found a place in pop culture with its own holiday. Even our friends at ElsevierConnect have written about it today.

Pi appears throughout history. From Antiquity (there’s debate about if the Giza Pyramid builders had knowledge of Pi), to ancient Greek, Chinese, Indian and Persian mathematicians (including

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IE11 now supported by Scopus

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified)
on Thu, 03/13/2014 - 13:11

On Wednesday March 12, a fix was made in Scopus to support Internet Explorer 11. Users no longer need to switch on the compatibility view in Internet Explorer 11 in order to properly view Scopus.com.

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March 12 2014
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Elsevier's Postdoc Free Access Program is back

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on Mon, 03/10/2014 - 20:26

The Scopus team always loves programs that help support early career researchers (check out these great free resources) and now there is some great news for postdocs!

Elsevier's Postdoc Free Access Program is back. The program is designed to help early career researchers who are between positions stay up-to-date in their respective fields. Eligible applicants can receive complimentary access to journals and books on ScienceDirect for up to 6 months.

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