The Scoop: Trial Access for Scopus

Trial access has been established for Scopus.
Trial is through May 7th, 2008 and it is available via IP authentication

To access the database, point your browser to: Scopus Trial

Scopus: Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database. It covers:
15,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000 international publishers, including coverage of:

Over 1200 Open Access journals

500 Conference Proceedings

Over 600 Trade Publications

200 book series

33 million records, of which:

16 million records include references going back to 1996 (75% include references)

17 million pre-1996 records go back as far as 1841

Scopus also covers 386 million quality web sources, including 22 million patents. Web sources are searched via Scirus, and include author homepages, university sites and resources such as the preprint servers CogPrints and ArXiv.org, and OAI compliant resources.

For more information or comments, please contact Janet Pease.