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Upgrades to Scopus: Routine Maintenance on October 26

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified)
on Mon, 10/14/2013 - 12:59

On October 26, Scopus will undergo routine database maintenance. During this time, we do not expect there to be any downtime for users and Scopus will function as it normally does. For stability reasons we will not load any new content in the week of October 18-25. This also means that the Alerts will be put on hold; users will not miss any alerts, they will just be sent later than usual. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Release Date: 
October 26 2013
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Release
Alerts
Maintenance

Books, books and more books: Scopus’ Titles Expansion Program

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified)
on Wed, 10/09/2013 - 13:15

In conjunction with the Frankfurt Book Fair, we’ve formally announced the Scopus Book Titles Expansion program. Our content operations team has been actively processing books since the Spring and as of our August release books content – at the book and chapter level – has been visible in Scopus’ interface. To date, we have 7,654 books visible (20,000 by the end of the year) and expect to fully index 75,000 books by the end of the project.

So why has Scopus decided to add books? We know that

Release Date: 
August 24 2013
Tags: 
Content
Books
Evaluation
Citations

Scopus Author Identifiers: Further linking with ORCID

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified)
on Wed, 09/04/2013 - 14:27

It has been almost a year since ORCID – the open, non-profit, community-based effort to provide a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers – was launched.  More than 253,000 ORCID profiles have been created as of today. Since its launch, the Scopus team has continued to add enhanced integration points while supporting the mission of ORCID.

The first effort was the Scopus2ORCID Feedback Wizard which allows

Release Date: 
August 24 2013
Tags: 
ORCID
Author Identifiers
Author Profiles
Researcher Disambiguation
Elsevier Labs

August 2013 Updates to Scopus: Enhancements to Books & ISSN Search Alerts

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified)
on Tue, 08/27/2013 - 13:37
  1. Scopus now makes discovering thousands of book and book chapters even easier. Find <Book or Book Chapter> in the Document Type menu.



    Then, when you open a chapter screen, you will see all of the other chapters within the book listed in a viewing panel on the right-hand side of the page.


     
  2. You asked and we have delivered.
Release Date: 
August 24 2013
Tags: 
Release
ISSN
Books
Search

Scheduled maintenance for ScienceDirect and Scopus on Saturday, July 20, 2013

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified)
on Sat, 07/20/2013 - 00:00

ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance from Saturday, July 20 at 7:00 PM EDT (12:00 MIDNIGHT BST) until Saturday, July 20 at 7:30 PM EDT (12:30 AM BST). It is also possible that you may experience service disruptions such as slower response times and unexpected outages throughout the day.

Please use The World Clock Time Zone Converter to convert the announced planned outage time to your local time.

Release Date: 
July 20 2013
Tags: 
Release

Upgrades to Scopus: Export Limits Increased to 20,000

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified)
on Sat, 07/20/2013 - 00:00

The Scopus export limits have increased from 2,000 to 20,000 records.  Users can now download (up to) 20,000 records at a time.  Once the selection has been made, an email with a link to download the CSV data set will be sent to the user with the following fields provided:

  • Author(s)
  • Document title
  • Year
  • Source title
  • Volume, issue, pages
  • Citation count
  • Source and document type

At Scopus, we are very excited to continue our work with ORCID.

Release Date: 
July 20 2013
Tags: 
Release

Upgrades to Scopus: Japanese Interface Launched

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified)
on Sat, 07/20/2013 - 00:00

Upgrades to Scopus this weekend:

  1. The Search Results Page interface is now less cluttered and overall usability is improved. You will now see the following features in a single bar:
  • Download PDF
  • Export
  • View citation overview
  • View cited by

The additional features of <View references>, <Add to My List>, <Create bibliography>, <Email>, and <Print> are all still available but via a drop-down <More…> menu. The result of this re-design delivers a cleaner, less cluttered Search Results Page. See for yourself:

Release Date: 
July 20 2013
Tags: 
Release

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