OARE Module 5A:
Scopus (Elsevier)
Table of Contents
• About Scopus (Elsevier)
• Using Scopus
• Search Page
• Results/Refine Search Pages
• Download, PDF, Export, Print and
Email options
• Advanced Search
Scopus (Elsevier) Coverage
• Scopus is a large abstract and citation database of
peer-reviewed literature with smart tools that track,
analyze and visualize research
• Contains 20,500 journals from 500 publishers plus
more than 49 million records – 78% with abstracts;
over 5.3 million conference papers
• Some of the journal titles and full-text articles are
available from OARE
• Most of the conference papers will be available
directly from Scopus
Opening OARE
From this webpage, login to
OARE and the Contents page.
Enter the Institution’s User Name
and Password in the appropriate
boxes, then click on the Sign in
button.
Type in user name and password
exactly as provided by your institution.
Passwords are case-sensitive.
Click Login
Scopus (Elsevier) Search Tool
Click on Search inside OARE fulltext… to access this database and
article searching tool.
Once the Browse databases
list opens, click on Scopus
(Elsevier).
Note: For some countries, the
publisher has chosen not to
grant access to this resource.
This is the default Scopus
(Document search) page.
From the top navigational bar on the Search
page, there is access to various SCOPUS options.
There are available at the top of the SCOPUS
website, regardless of the page that is open.
On the Advanced Search page,
you can conduct an advanced
search using a large number of
field names and other advanced
search parameters.
On the Document Search
page, you can conduct both
simple and more advanced
searches using common
search parameters.
On the Author Search page, you can
find articles written by a specific person
when the author’s name is cited in many
different ways. For example, an author
can be cited as Smith, J in one article,
but as Smith, John in another. SCOPUS
helps you find the right author by
grouping together articles written by
specific authors.
In the Search for section, enter a search for
‘ground water AND heavy metals AND mining’
and keep the ‘Article Title, Abstract Keywords’
option. In the Limit to section, retain the
default Date Range, Document Type and
Subject Areas options. Finally, click on Search.
The Scopus search resulted in 249 citations for journal
articles and conferences. For the search results, note
the following options: Export, Download and View
Citation Overview options. Also View Secondary
Documents and Patents Results options.
Note: If the term group water had been combined into
one word (groundwater), the search results would have
been significantly more – approximately 479 citations.
The SCOPUS database allows
you to search about 75% of the
scientific titles in OARE.
Scopus has the options to refine
the search by Year, Author
Name, Subject Area, Document
Type and other options.
The Show abstract icon will be activated for
one of the citations. There also is a View at
Publisher option. Note that you also can Edit
and Save the search plus Set (an) alert.
Now displayed is the Show
abstract option for one of the
citations. If the abstract is of
interest, click on View at Publisher.
A new window will open.
The Springer Plus portal has been
opened. Since this is an Open
Access journal, there will be links to
the Abstract, full text (html) and
PDF versions of the article.
Now opened is a second link to a
publisher’s portal - Sage - with
Abstract, Full Text (html) and
Full Text (PDF) options.
In this case, the publisher has requested Short-Term
Access payment or to Sign In with a username and
password (your OARE institution’s will not work). To
figure out if your institutions has access to this journal,
there are several steps to follow. See the next slide –
(Module 3 Appendix) Access Problems and Solutions is
an overview of ‘problem solving’ options.
OARE Module 3 Appendix:
Access Problems and Solutions for
Full-text Articles
This module is an overview of numerous access problems
to OARE and/or the other R4L portals. Included is
information on how to access a journal if the publisher
does not immediately grant access – something that
periodically occurs when using the SCOPUS.
Now displayed is the Export option
that allow you to download the
checked citations to reference
management software programs and
choose various information options
Now displayed is the Export
option for this citation. Note how
the result can be saved to various
reference management software
programs and other options.
Now displayed is the Document
Download Manager option – for
saving PDF files that have been
accessed. Note the Download
abstract check box.
The Refine (Limits) option in the left
column now will be discussed.
Check on 2015, 2014 and 2013 and
click on Refine Limits. Also note
the Show all abstracts option.
The results for the 2015, 2014
and 2013 search is 43
documents. The Relevance
(sort) and Show all abstracts
have been activated.
The original 249 documents
search is displayed again – for
a Subject Area Limits search.
Displayed are the 159
documents for the
Environmental Science and
Agricultural and Biological
Sciences Subject Area search.
Note the other Refine
option in the left column.
Displayed is the Advanced
Search box that allows searches
with combine terms and concepts.
Using the Scopus list of
citations, access the fulltext articles from the
‘Journals collections’ list
or Publishers’ list
Exercises
Complete Module 5A exercises #1 - 4 in
the accompanying OARE exercises
document
Updated July 2015