Wednesday, 18 February 2015

Going Beyond DISCOVER...with SCOPUS

DISCOVER is UoB's Research Discovery Platform - a piece of software which allows you to search the Library Catalogue, most of our databases and the institution's Research Repository all at the same time.

DISCOVER should be the starting point for carrying out your research but...it's not the only research tool we have. One database that you may find very useful is SCOPUS . It's a research database of peer reviewed literature.

You can search SCOPUS via DISCOVER but if you do it this way you'll miss out on it's special features.

If you search SCOPUS directly you'll find that each record provides links to all the articles the author has used in their reference list. It also has a "Related Documents" feature - a box in which SCOPUS will provide links to other related articles that it thinks you might find useful.



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