University Libraries

Please join the Sciences Library for:

Lunch @ the Library: Library 101

At 12:30-1:20pm on Wednesday, October 3rd in 102 SL (Sciences Library classroom)

You may bring your lunch. Coffee and cookies will be provided.

In this workshop, you will learn:

• What kinds of resources and services are available at the University of Iowa Libraries.
• How to use My Library Account, Smart Search, the InfoHawk catalog and InfoLink to find the information you need for your research.
• How to access library resources from off-campus.
• What to do when the library doesn’t have the materials you need.
• How to get help when you need it.

The Elsevier products ScienceDirect, Scopus, Hub, Applications, SciVal, Journals Consult and the Admin Tool will be unavailable for approximately 19 hours on Saturday, August 25, 2012 due to scheduled maintenance and updates.

Expected Downtime: 6:30am Saturday, August 25th – 1:30am, Sunday, August 26th (CDT).

According to Elsevier, the updates will result in the following changes:

“ScienceDirect: Effortless access to relevant information thanks to a new design for journal article and book chapter pages as well as improved user experience for RSS feeds, image search, and other features.

Scopus: Easy updates with Alerts Features functionality improvement.

Hub: Faster and friendlier search capability through several new features.”

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. During this downtime, you may find Web of Science to be useful as an alternative resource. Please contact the Sciences Library at lib-sciences@uiowa.edu or (319) 335-3083 if you have any questions.

The University of Iowa Libraries has added a new abstract and citation database to its collection. Scopus is similar to our current database Web of Science (WOS). While it has fewer years of journal coverage than WOS, for more recent years, Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database. It includes peer-reviewed titles from international publishers, Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, and quality web sources. It’s subject coverage includes: Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Engineering ; Life and Health Sciences ; Social Sciences, Psychology and Economics ; Biological, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

Scopus is available to students, faculty and staff of the University of Iowa and can be accessed both on and off-campus at: http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/scopus.

Scopus features include:

• Linking to full-text articles and other library resources.
• Author Identifier to automatically match an author’s published research including the h-index.
• Citation Tracker to simply find, check and track citations in real-time.
• Affiliation Identifier to automatically identify and match an organization with all its research output.
• Journal Analyzer provides a quick insight into journal performance.
• Alerts, RSS and HTML feeds to stay up-to-date.
• Document Download Manager to easily download and organize multiple full-text articles simultaneously.
• Interoperability with SciVerse ScienceDirect, Reaxis and ProQuest’s CSA Illumina.
• Data export via bibiliographic managers such as RefWorks, EndNote and BibTex.

For more information about Scopus, please visit About Scopus. View tutorials and other information at Scopus Help. If you have questions or would like to arrange a demonstration of Scopus for yourself or your class, please contact the Sciences Library at 319-335-3083 or lib-sciences@uiowa.edu.