Scopus Announces First-of-its-Kind Customized I...

AMSTERDAM, November 12 /PRNewswire/ --     Scopus(R), the world's largest 
abstract and citation database of research
information and quality Web sources, today announced that it is the first and
only database of its kind to provide a fully customizable feature to its
customers that enables users to search within selected repositories or
subject specific digital archives within the Scopus interface. This new
feature in Scopus, Selected Sources, allows customers to choose from a list
of institutional resources and special subject collections indexed by Scirus
to be made individually searchable in a separate tab; in effect highlighting
the best scientific information from the web to their users.



    Furthermore, for the first time, librarians can request for their own
institutes' repositories and digital archive to be indexed and made
searchable through the Scopus interface.



    Now that these Selected Sources can be selected and searched separately
by universities, departments, government agencies and corporations can
enhance traditional literature searching by providing easy access to
non-published intellectual output such as theses, lecture notes,
presentations, manuscripts and prepress papers. Additionally it provides
exposure of the research carried out at institutes that offer their
repositories online and it bridges the gap between traditional and new search
environments.



    "Scopus now provides easy access to our institution's repository by
internal and external parties, generating added global exposure of the
research our staff is conducting," said Hubert Krekels, Repository Manager,
Wageningen University and Research Centre. "In addition, the Selected Sources
feature will allow us to provide a new, highly valuable service to our
researchers by empowering our departments with the ability to customize an
area of Scopus and dedicate it to their area of interest."



    "Users demand the ability to conduct both comprehensive and targeted
research, which is why it is so important to make scientific information
accessible regardless of where it is stored. The information they need may be
in their own library or another, it may be published within a journal or on
the Web or even unpublished. We are striving to provide a simple way for
researchers to access relevant scientific literature by removing barriers
between these different information sources," said Jaco Zijlstra Scopus
Director. "Above all, it brings all the resources together within one
interface while keeping them separate through the use of tabs, simplifying
the research work flow significantly."



    Librarians can choose from over 19 institutional repositories indexed by
Elsevier's Scirus including MIT OpenCourseWare, the University of Toronto's
T-Space, the Caltech collection of open digital archives and other gray
literature sources such as NASA. The Selected Sources feature is available to
all subscribers and can be quickly and easily customized by contacting
Scopus' E-Helpdesk.



    Customers can also request their repositories to be indexed by Scirus for
free.



About Scopus

    Covering the world's research literature, Scopus is the largest and 
easiest to use navigation tool ever built. Scopus is designed and developed 
with over 300 users and librarians internationally. Its unique database 
contains abstracts and references from over 15,000 titles from 4,000 
different publishers, ensuring broad interdisciplinary coverage. In addition, 
Scopus not only offers users citation information about the articles covered, 
but also integrates web & patent searches directly from its clean and simple
interface. Direct links to full-text articles, library resources and other
applications like reference management software, make Scopus quicker, easier
and more comprehensive to use than any other literature research tool. For
more information about Scopus please visit http://www.info.scopus.com.



About Elsevier

    Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and 
medical information products and services. Working in partnership with the 
global science and health communities, Elsevier's 7,000 employees in 77 
offices worldwide publish more than 2,000 journals and 1,900 new books per 
year, in addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products, 
such as ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com/), MD Consult 
(http://www.mdconsult.com/), Scopus (http://www.news.scopus.com/),
bibliographic databases, and online reference works.



    Elsevier (http://www.elsevier.com/) is a global business headquartered in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands and has offices worldwide. Elsevier is part of
Reed Elsevier Group plc (http://www.reedelsevier.com/), a world-leading
publisher and information provider. Operating in the science and medical,
legal, education and business-to-business sectors, Reed Elsevier provides
high-quality and flexible information solutions to users, with increasing
emphasis on the Internet as a means of delivery. Reed Elsevier's ticker
symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and
ENL (New York Stock Exchange).



    
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