Scopus. Information literacy in Chemistry. J une 14, 2011

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1 Information literacy in Chemistry Scopus J une 14, 2011

2 BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE electronic archive of bibliographic records that refer to published academic literature the records are structured and organized and the database are enriched with tools so users may search and retrieve what is published in a specific field of the knowledge

3 BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASES they index papers published in academic journals mostly, but not only

4 BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASES an ideal bibliographic database doesn t exist a bibliographic database is never exhaustive so.

5 USE OF DIGITAL RESOURCES AT DIP. SC. FARMACEUTICHE Altro 15% Web of Science 19% Pubmed 2% Portale AIRE 12% Scopus 14% Scifinder 38%

6 USE OF DIGITAL RESOURCES AT DIP. SC. CHIMICHE Portale AIRE 6% Scopus 6% Scifinder 23% altro 10% W eb of Science 55%

7 HOW CAN WE ACCESS BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASES Cerca Articoli e banche dati AIRE Portale Trova risorse

8 BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASES We are going to deal with Scopus Web of Science Scifinder Pubmed

9 WEB OF SCIENCE AND SCOPUS are bibliographic multidisciplinary citation databases

10 CITATION DATABASES contain bibliographic records of the scientific papers citations to the scientific papers (or other type of works) references of the scientific papers

11 CITATION DATABASES references paper past present cited papers future

12 CITATION DATABASES are tools for scientific information retrieval (they index the scientific literature) for the evaluation of the scientific research (they measure the number of times a publication has been cited they measure the number of times an author has been cited they measure the number of times a journal has been cited)

13 CITATION DATABASES allow to look backward in time (references cited in the work) look forward in time (works that cite the work) so you can discover the roots of a research topic as well as you can analyse its development

14 CITATION DATABASES Web of Science Scopus Scifinder Google Scholar (it s not properly a database)

15 COMPARISON OF JOURNALS INDEXED BY WEB OF SCIENCE AND SCOPUS (May 2011) from: JISC Academic Database Assessment Tool <

16 WEB OF SCIENCE SCOPUS coverage multidisciplinary multidisciplinary time range since 1996 with abstracts and citations since 1823 for most important journals (Nature, Science, Elsevier, ACS etc,) with or without abstracts but always without citations bibliometrics

17 SCOPUS: PROS it retrieves information from academic journals as well as from patents, open archives, scientific Web It indexes articles in press it can be searched by chemical name or CAS Registry Number it s fully integrated with Refworks easier author indentification

18 SCOPUS: CONS full bibliographic records since 1996 (Web of Science since 1990) metrics since 1996 (Web of Science since 1990)

19 DOCUMENT TYPES INDEXED BY SCOPUS It focuses on peer review articles (academic publications) but indexes also conference proceedings book series (Advances in ) patents documents from open archives scientific web sources

20 SCOPUS: REGISTERING AND LOGGING you can create your personal account in Scopus: the account is useful for: - search alerts - document citation alerts - author citation alerts - saving searches - integration with Refworks

21 bibliographic search personal features sources indexed by Scopus tools for the evaluation of journals

22 SCOPUS: SEARCH basic search author profile search search by institution advanced syntax search

23 SCOPUS: DOCUMENT SEARCH you can choose a time range you have to choose one search field (drop down menu)

24 SCOPUS: DOCUMENT SEARCH you can choose a specific document type from the dropdown list

25 SCOPUS: DOCUMENT SEARCH click here if you want to add one or more additional search field

26 SCOPUS: DOCUMENT SEARCH connect search terms with boolean operators

27 SCOPUS: DOCUMENT SEARCH you can use boolean operators in one single search box as well

28 SCOPUS: SEARCH SYNTAX if you type 2 or more words in one single search box, Scopus retrieves records that contain all the words entered (the operator AND is implied) if you search for an exact phrase, type it between curly brackets {invasion of exotic species} If you search for adjacent words, type it between double quotes exotic species if you type a singular form of a word, Scopus retrieves the plural form too

29 SCOPUS: SEARCH SYNTAX WILD CARDS question mark? = replace a single character in a word asterisk * = replace 0-multiple characters in a word (everywhere in the word)

30 SCOPUS: RESULTS search results tab

31 SCOPUS: RESULTS TABS SCOPUS TAB Scopus results more TAB references from Scopus documents that are not Scopus records WEB TAB results founds on Scirus (academic search engine: PATENTS TAB SELECTED SOURCES TAB results from open archives

32 WHAT ARE OPEN ARCHIVES Free online repositories where authors can store preprint articles in progress papers theses and dissertations scholarly materials preliminary findings anyone can read, download, use them see eprints resources in Portale AIRE

33 SCOPUS: RESULTS results are sorted by date. You can also sort them by: relevance, number of citations, first author, source

34 SCOPUS: RESULTS click on the title to open the full record click on View at publisher to view the document on the publisher s web site click on Cerca con AIRE to open SFX services click on Related documents to open a list of papers that share: references authors keywords with this article

35 SCOPUS: DOCUMENT DETAILS list of papers that cite this article

36 SCOPUS: DOCUMENT DETAILS list of works (e-prints, theses, dissertations) that cite this article list of patents that cite this article list of papers that share: references authors keywords with this article

37 SCOPUS: DOCUMENT DETAILS references of this article

38 SCOPUS: DOCUMENT DETAILS keywords author keywords: chosen by the authors index keywords: assigned by Scopus indexers, according to controlled vocabularies chemicals and CAS RN: substances cited in the article

39 SCOPUS: RESULTS Article in Press: papers that have not been published yet

40 SCOPUS: RECORD (IN)COMPLETO records of Articles in Press could miss some data: abstract references keyword

41 SCOPUS: RESULTS click on the title to open the full record click on Cerca con AIRE to open SFX services click on View at publisher to view the document on the publisher s web site

42 SCOPUS: LIMITS you can reduce your search using one or more additional keywords or you can refine your search using these limits

43 SCOPUS: OUTPUTS you can download up to 50 articles (if available) at the same time you can create a quick bibliography from the selected records

44 SCOPUS: OUTPUTS you can export the selected records to a reference management software (e.g. Refworks)

45 SCOPUS: OUTPUTS you can view all the references cited in the selected documents you can view all the works that cite the selected documents

46 SCOPUS: CITATION OVERVIEW citation overview lets you understand and compare the trend of citations to one or more works over the years, that is the success or the unsuccess of a research work

47 SCOPUS: CITATION OVERVIEW select one or more records an then click on View citation overview

48 SCOPUS: CITATION OVERVIEW you can change the date range. Remember to click on Update overview

49 SCOPUS: AUTHOR PROFILE to open an author profile you have to select Author search tab

50 SCOPUS: AUTHOR PROFILE or you can click on the hyperlinked name

51 SCOPUS: AUTHOR PROFILE be careful: an author may have more than one profile: for a full search you better use Author search tab

52 SCOPUS: AUTHOR PROFILE documents: all the works of the author references: all the works that are cited by the author in his works citations: all the works that cite author s works data are certain since 1996 only

53 SCOPUS: AUTHOR PROFILE you can search the works by an author (not the profile) even through Document search

54 SCOPUS: RESULTS you can save your query into your account for future sessions (you must be logged in)

55 SCOPUS: RESULTS you can set an alert of your query so you will be notified by when new documents match your search criteria (if you are logged in)

56 SCOPUS: SEARCH HISTORY a search history list at the bottom of the search page displays your searches during the current session you can recall a previous search clicking on the number you can modify a previous search clicking on Edit

57 SCOPUS: REFERENCES SEARCH you can focus your search on the references of the documents only