Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyse and visualize research (including your own author profile). It also has tools that allow you to compare journal impact.
SciVal offers quick, easy access to the research performance of 7,500 research institutions and 220 nations worldwide.
A ready-to-use solution, SciVal enables you to visualize research performance (individual, group, & institutional level), benchmark relative to peers, and develop collaborative partnerships.
Access to both resources is available via the Libraries A-Z of databases. To access SciVal you'll need to initially register with Scopus and then use the same username and password to access SciVal.
The course is aimed at academic staff, post docs and postgraduate students who wish to develop their knowledge of the content and functionality of Scopus & SciVal.
Training will be with Dr Matt Walker, Customer Consultant, Elsevier
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Content is as follows:
- Make your research more efficient using Elsevier’s Scopus tool
- Brief introduction to Scopus and its coverage.
- How to stay up to date in your field, how to personalize Scopus and set alerts to save you time finding relevant information.
- Advanced search tips to in-depth literature searches, how to analyse and export information, how to create lists.
- How to view the citation trends for a set of documents, find all publications citing a specific document (or set of documents) and discover the overall impact of publications in a research area.
- Author Search and ORCID - cleaning up your Author profile. Why this is important and how to find future collaborators /competitors on your topic.
Audience: Academic staff, Post-docs and Postgraduate students
- Using Elsevier’s SciVal tool for scholarly purposes
- Brief introduction to Scopus and its coverage.
- Creating Research Areas to explore topics and identify key authors and institutions.
- Looking for new collaborators and potential competitors in SciVal Collaboration module.
- Benchmarking yourself against others for grant applications and promotion panels.
Audience: Academic staff, Post-docs and Postgraduate students
Contact: Ciarán Quinn, Research Support Librarian