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Science Direct and Scopus update

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ScienceDirect and Scopus unavailable

ScienceDirect and Scopus are currently unavailable due to a technical problem at the publisher site. Ejournals with sciencedirect.com in the url are also affected. We'll let you know as soon as we have any further information.

New Scopus mobile app to help researchers keep up to date

New Elsevier mobile app helps researchers keep up to date | Scopus Blog | Elsevier

Elsevier’s latest mobile app, available on the Elsevier WebShop, is the publisher-neutral Research Highlights, which is free to anyone who needs to keep up to date with the new research that is being published in their field. The Research Highlights app harnesses the power of Scopus to let researchers track critical search terms across more than 20,000 peer-reviewed journals from hundreds of publishers.

Once you've downloaded the app and set up your preferences, you can check author-written bulleted highlights and/or the abstract to determine which articles to read in full. Then, with a single click, you can send a full text URL to your email inbox. Back at your desk you will find the selected articles waiting - whether to print off, or read on a full-size screen. Your content licenses will also be recognized, ensuring seamless access to all the content you have rights to.

Research Highlights is handy because it allows users to follow new research from all important publishers through a single app. The app developers also recognized which parts of the literature search can be comfortably carried out on a mobile device and which parts are more easily performed back in your office (or offline). While it may be fine to scan article lists and read a few bullets or a short abstract on the small screen of a mobile device, lengthy full-text articles are not easy to consume that way.

Try Research Highlights for yourself and tell us what you think about it. Both Apple and Android versions are available - each suitable for smartphone and tablet devices.

New research database - Scopus

Learning Resources has recently acquired a new database SCOPUS.

SCOPUS is the largest database for abstracts and citations of peer-reviewed literature on the market with records of 19,500 peer-reviewed publications from around the world.

It covers all subject areas and links to the full text of articles (where the University has a subscription).

The really great thing about SCOPUS is that it provides links to all the references used by an author to write their piece of research so you can find out more about the available research in a particular area. 

It also tells you which other articles have cited a particular source and provides links to these articles, helping you to discover which are the most popular journals when researching a topic. (This will of course, make it easier for you to find the quality material for your topic and help with critical analysis).

You can watch a video about accessing SCOPUS here.

Problems with Elsevier journals via ScienceDirect

We are experiencing various problems with journals on the ScienceDirect platform, which may cause some journal articles to be temporarily unavailable.  Please be patient while the supplier tries to solve their technical issues, and try again later.