Scopus

Scopus is a search engine containing abstracts of articles and book chapters in all subject areas. It also contains the references from and citations to those articles and book chapters.

Go to Scopus via databases.library.uu.nl

What can you find in Scopus?

  • articles from peer reviewed journals, incl. over 5500 open access journals and articles (the oldest record is from 1788, the bulk from 1969);
  • cited references (from 1970);
  • books, book series and book chapters (no book reviews);
  • conference proceedings (no conference abstracts);
  • patents.

Literature in all disciplines, especially:

  • health sciences (incl. the complete collection from MEDLINE, nursing, dentistry); 
  • physical sciences (incl. chemistry, physics, engineering);
  • social sciences (incl. Arts & Humanities, psychology, economy, business);
  • life sciences (incl. neurosciences, biology, pharmacologie). 

Go to www.elsevier.com to view the most recent Scopus Content Coverage Guide

What to use Scopus for?

  • searching scientific/scholarly articles, book chapters and conference papers;
  • finding citations and conduct a further search based on the citations you found;
  • finding the citation scores of authors (H-index);
  • checking how many times and by whom publications have been cited;
  • checking the impact of journals (CiteScore, SJR, SNIP).

UBUlink

In Scopus you will find information about the (full text) availability of the digital publications in Utrecht University Library via the UBUlink.

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