Scopus Newsletter - How to power up your research webinar, tips & tricks and more

Share Email View in a browser Scopus Newsletter | September 2016 | Covering news, product updates, tips & tricks and more Feature Story How to power up your research After a short break, we hope you are ready to join us as we continue our Scopus webinar series. Over the past 9 months we’ve covered 8 topics; from improving your search strategy, to how you can create APIs to bring Scopus data into your own applications, all of which can be accessed any time on our webinar channel. Our next webinar will focus on how Scopus can help ‘power up your research’— well aligned with the start of the new academic year. On September 29th, join Rachel McCullough, Scopus Product Marketing Manager, as she shares tips and tricks to help you with your research and provides an update on Scopus changes made throughout 2016. Register   Go to Scopus Scopus Tips & Tricks Journal Metrics in Scopus: Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) In addition to being an abstract and citation database, Scopus offers a variety of metrics and analytical tools to provide more depth and understanding to the data and information. One of these metrics is the Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP); a journal metric which measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field, using Scopus data. This tip & trick explains how SNIP is calculated, where you can access it, and how to use it within Scopus.   >  Follow the Tip & Trick   >  Compare Journals in Scopus   Focus on Scopus: More stories and helpful resources Coming soon: Scopus gets a new look and feel—a first step in an ongoing series of improvements! Stay tuned to discover more details via our blog! Follow @Scopus to keep updated. Scopus data: In August the Times Higher Education announced that its World University Rankings analysis, which draws data from Scopus, will now include books! Note: Resulting from our book expansion program, Scopus now indexes over 132,000 books! Scopus data: For the 2016-17 QS World University Rankings, QS analyzed 10.3 million research papers and 66.3 million citations from Scopus data. Learn about their methodology here.   You are receiving this newsletter because you are a Scopus registered user. It contains important information aimed to help enhance your Scopus experience. To continue receiving this monthly newsletter and stay up-to-date with Scopus, please make sure you register. >  Register     Follow us This message has been sent to pudding@nccu.edu.tw from Elsevier Communications on behalf of Elsevier Scopus. If you no longer wish to receive messages of this nature from us in the future, please click here. Visit the Elsevier Preference Center to manage more of your communication preferences with us. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier B.V.. All rights reserved. | Elsevier Privacy Policy Elsevier B.V. Registered Office: Radarweg 29, 1043 NX Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Reg. No. 33158992 – Netherlands. VAT No. NL 005033019B01.