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(2004), "Elsevier announces scopus service", Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 32 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/ilds.2004.12232cab.001
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2004, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Elsevier announces scopus service
News on document delivery matters in the media
This column is a re-introduction of the old Miscellany but more tightly focussed on matters affecting document delivery and with more commentary. Please let me know if you find it useful at mike.mcgrath@britishlibrary.net
Another investigation is taking place of the STM publishing sector. This time by a powerful UK parliamentary committee chaired by a radical Labour MP who is supportive of the Open Access movement. Expect some fireworks! It was reported on by a number of sites and newspapers. We will carry a full report when it is published: (Ed.)
Elsevier announces scopus service
Keywords: Document delivery
Scopus looks as if it will be a direct competitor for services such as the British Library's Inside. It will be interesting to see the pricing structure, both for the database and for document delivery. Not cheap that's for sure.
After two years of planning, development, and initial testing by a select group of about 20 university libraries, Elsevier has finally made an official announcement of the first fully functioning version of Scopus, its highly anticipated, full-text linking, abstracting-and-indexing database. The company is now providing access to another 30 academic libraries for final testing and user trials will add more libraries over the next six months, and expects to have the commercial release available by Q4 2004. Scopus is designed to be an all science, comprehensive access point for a library, with coverage of 13,000 titles from over 4,000 STM publishers, plus coverage of over 100 open access journals by the summer. Scopus also simultaneously searches the scientific Web using Elsevier's science-only Internet search engine, Scirus. The company aimed to make the Scopus service “as easy to use as Google,” with fewer clicks to the full text than any service available.
Source: www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb040315-1.shtml (15 March 2004)