WEBVTT 1 00:00:19.140 --> 00:00:20.250 Jonna Peterson: Good morning everyone. 2 00:00:21.360 --> 00:00:36.720 Jonna Peterson: My name is Jonna Peterson. I'm here with Annette Mendoza, and we are two librarians from the Galter Health Sciences Library here at Northwestern University. We are going to run through the content for our Scopus class today and 3 00:00:38.130 --> 00:00:51.600 Jonna Peterson: This class is something that is offered on a monthly basis through the Galter Health Sciences Library. It is also available by appointment. If the date that the courses offered doesn't work for you. 4 00:00:53.040 --> 00:01:12.060 Jonna Peterson: We also hope that if you cannot make one of the dates that this recording will serve as useful for you. So let's talk a little bit about what Scopus is so Scopus is the world's largest abstraction citation database of peer reviewed literature and it contains well over 21,000 titles. 5 00:01:13.320 --> 00:01:17.970 Jonna Peterson: And a lot a lot of conference papers 7.2 million conference papers. 6 00:01:19.380 --> 00:01:28.980 Jonna Peterson: For our class today we're going to break it up into two sections. I'm going to cover the document search and some of the tools that 7 00:01:29.550 --> 00:01:37.170 Jonna Peterson: Allow you to export data to ability graphic management program specifically EndNote and also the creation of an account in Scopus 8 00:01:37.770 --> 00:01:49.260 Jonna Peterson: For saving additional material beyond your browser session and that after I'm done. And then, we're going to switch and Annette will actually speak to the author searching and some of the 9 00:01:50.100 --> 00:02:04.530 Jonna Peterson: The journal ranking and quality and impacts that some of the publications inside of the database have. So with that, I'm going to stop sharing my slides, and I'm going to switch over to the actual database. 10 00:02:06.870 --> 00:02:21.330 Jonna Peterson: So this is the Galter Health Sciences Library homepage and in order to access the Scopus database used to do a couple of things you should sign in. So you can see that I'm signed in, in the upper right corner of the page. 11 00:02:21.810 --> 00:02:30.390 Jonna Peterson: And then scroll down to about the center and in this popular resources section on the left hand side you'll see a link to the Scopus database. 12 00:02:32.820 --> 00:02:40.350 Jonna Peterson: So while it's loading, as we mentioned Scopus is one of the largest databases out there for this type of information. 13 00:02:41.730 --> 00:02:51.720 Jonna Peterson: The nice thing about it is when you take a look at the actual database itself, you are searching, something that is about four times the size of Medline so for those out there that 14 00:02:52.980 --> 00:02:59.310 Jonna Peterson: Search and Medline religiously and haven't ever tried another database. This is a great, a great one to try 15 00:02:59.940 --> 00:03:09.300 Jonna Peterson: As we scroll down here, what we're going to see if the page is sort of arranged with a drop down menu here on the left hand side. This is a default menu. 16 00:03:09.720 --> 00:03:21.240 Jonna Peterson: It shows article title, abstract and keywords. So without doing anything this particular database is going to search in these three fields of the record for the items that are contained within the database. 17 00:03:21.720 --> 00:03:29.910 Jonna Peterson: If you wanted to search for a very specific aspect of a citation, you could change this and this. 18 00:03:30.690 --> 00:03:39.540 Jonna Peterson: But as I'm going to be doing topic searches or subject searches looking for a specific author or specific journal is probably not where I'm headed this time. 19 00:03:40.290 --> 00:03:58.260 Jonna Peterson: So let's go ahead and actually put in a topic. And we can actually see how this searches. So I'm going to use a very broad topic right now and type in the term leukemia. So I've typed leukemia into my search box there and I'm going to go ahead and hit the search button. 20 00:04:03.900 --> 00:04:20.220 Jonna Peterson: As we wait for that screen to come up, you're going to see that the database is compiling the results for the topic that I have entered in. And you can see that it comes up with what can be known as a ridiculous number of results so 440,001. 21 00:04:21.390 --> 00:04:27.660 Jonna Peterson: The US. There are that many documents containing the word leukemia and the title, abstract and keywords of a specific database. 22 00:04:28.170 --> 00:04:45.000 Jonna Peterson: Or of his specific record. So what we can do now is we could actually start to review those 440,000 documents now. Well, it looks like my pages reloading here. Give it, give it just a second. So reviewing 440,000 items is never going to be the right answer. 23 00:04:46.050 --> 00:04:55.740 Jonna Peterson: That is entirely to any for a search. So obviously we're going to try to narrow down our search a little bit. But before we do that, I just want to talk a little bit about what we see on this page. 24 00:04:56.340 --> 00:05:10.920 Jonna Peterson: So by default, the papers that you see as results are displayed by the newest so you'll see that the newest thing available here is again an article published in the Journal of Hematology and Oncology published in the year 2021 25 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:16.620 Jonna Peterson: You have abilities to change the way this, the results are sorted 26 00:05:18.510 --> 00:05:25.260 Jonna Peterson: We're not going to change them for today's example right now. But you do have that ability as you look through those results. 27 00:05:25.890 --> 00:05:33.480 Jonna Peterson: So let's just scroll down a little bit. So what we see on the left hand side are some very what I kind of like to call Amazon like menus. 28 00:05:33.840 --> 00:05:44.640 Jonna Peterson: Where you are able to narrow to a specific criteria that you see with those checkboxes. So for example, if I only wanted to see papers that had been published in 2020 29 00:05:45.150 --> 00:06:02.850 Jonna Peterson: I could check the box for 2020 and when I check that it's going to retrieve 15,340 papers. Okay, I'm not going to do that right this second but you get the idea. You can narrow what you see on the right by many criteria that you see on the left. 30 00:06:04.500 --> 00:06:20.130 Jonna Peterson: For each of these criteria. You can also see that there is the ability to expand. So, it generally shows you five of the of the filters are the limits on the left side. But if you click the View more it will show you 10 and if you 31 00:06:21.750 --> 00:06:31.920 Jonna Peterson: Want to see every single author, that is a part of those 440,000 results that are a part of this set, you can click that view all and you would see that 32 00:06:33.690 --> 00:06:40.890 Jonna Peterson: That said, I'm going to go back up to the top. And I'm going to add a second search term to my search. Now you can do this in a couple of different ways. 33 00:06:41.340 --> 00:06:51.990 Jonna Peterson: You can add your search right here in the search within results line that she sees you can add your second term. But what I'm actually going to do is click this button. It doesn't look like a button, but it is 34 00:06:52.350 --> 00:07:05.280 Jonna Peterson: The search up near the top and I'm going to return back to the main screen. Once we get back to that main search screen. What I'm going to do is add a second term to my search 35 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:11.970 Jonna Peterson: And that term that we're going to add is going to be 36 00:07:13.440 --> 00:07:33.150 Jonna Peterson: A second column. Our second line. So what you can see that I've used this button here that says add search field to add an additional line to my search. And what I'm going to do is go ahead and type into my second line there that keywords music therapy. Now, as I have not mentioned yet. 37 00:07:36.210 --> 00:07:47.550 Jonna Peterson: So when, for those that are interested or for those that search Medline or Embase a lot, you'll know that those two databases have what they call controlled vocabularies so 38 00:07:48.180 --> 00:07:58.290 Jonna Peterson: A set of very specific terms that when you are looking for a concept in MEDLINE, you are required to use to when you're searching the database. So if you're looking for things about 39 00:07:58.830 --> 00:08:06.510 Jonna Peterson: Cancer in MEDLINE the term, you actually have to use is neoplasm again when people are discussing. 40 00:08:06.900 --> 00:08:16.860 Jonna Peterson: Cancer almost no one says neoplasm, but for the databases purposes, that's what you have to do. Now, that is not the case in Scopus, it is a key word database so 41 00:08:17.820 --> 00:08:25.200 Jonna Peterson: If I were to search for a term I am also responsible for all of the synonyms for that term. So if I search for heart attack. 42 00:08:26.100 --> 00:08:38.250 Jonna Peterson: I also have to search for it myocardial infarction and cardiac arrest and MI the acronym for myocardial infarction and any other terminology that you can think that would refer to a heart attack. 43 00:08:38.970 --> 00:08:51.150 Jonna Peterson: Cardiac arrest. There's a lot of them. So as the searcher in a database that does not have a controlled vocabulary. You are responsible for searching the synonyms of those particular 44 00:08:52.260 --> 00:09:02.640 Jonna Peterson: Concepts that you're hoping to find. So in my case, I have added the concept music therapy. It is placed in quotation marks. Those quotation marks in Scopus are important. 45 00:09:03.060 --> 00:09:06.660 Jonna Peterson: Because it creates music therapy as a phrase and that phrase. 46 00:09:07.410 --> 00:09:14.370 Jonna Peterson: Will keep the word music next to the word therapy and find articles that have that those two words next to one another. 47 00:09:14.700 --> 00:09:23.400 Jonna Peterson: That's going to narrow down what I'm going to find instead of finding articles with the word music in them somewhere and the word therapy and then somewhere that also happened to me about leukemia. 48 00:09:23.940 --> 00:09:38.610 Jonna Peterson: I'm not looking for items that are about leukemia and about music therapy as a concept. So now that I've added that second line and talked a whole lot about that term. I'm going to click the Search button. And once we do that, it's going to take us to the results page again. 49 00:09:44.880 --> 00:09:50.700 Jonna Peterson: And now you can see that for our same search from previously, we now have 37 documents. 50 00:09:51.750 --> 00:09:54.990 Jonna Peterson: So these 37 documents have 51 00:09:56.700 --> 00:10:05.010 Jonna Peterson: The keywords that we have typed and also are about the concepts that we've typed. As we scroll down we can start to review those 37 documents so 52 00:10:05.550 --> 00:10:21.570 Jonna Peterson: You can see that the most recently published one is this one by Hasanah yeah from 2020 as you move down. There's another article from 2020 and then we start 2019 and we go back in time. 53 00:10:22.530 --> 00:10:34.200 Jonna Peterson: One of the nice things about this is that if there is an article present, you can actually choose to toggle open that abstract by using the view abstract button below each of the citations. 54 00:10:34.680 --> 00:10:42.990 Jonna Peterson: So as you can see I have clicked the the view abstract button. And now you can see that there is a citation. I'm sorry, an abstract available. 55 00:10:43.770 --> 00:11:00.210 Jonna Peterson: For this particular paper by Giordano, and here's the abstract. I can read it. I didn't have to wait for my page to completely reload. All I did was click that toggle open. I can review that paper and I can decide if this seems like it may be relevant to the project that I'm working 56 00:11:01.260 --> 00:11:09.600 Jonna Peterson: On you can then toggle it closed again and you can see what you have in the rest of your results. 57 00:11:10.020 --> 00:11:16.170 Jonna Peterson: Now I'm going to scroll up to the top. And what I'm going to actually talk about right now is the show all abstracts button. 58 00:11:16.560 --> 00:11:27.750 Jonna Peterson: So you can individually toggle each of the abstracts open below the citations of interest or if you know that you're always the person who wants to review an abstract, you can click on Show All abstracts 59 00:11:28.290 --> 00:11:40.650 Jonna Peterson: And you can open that up and you can display all of the abstracts for the papers for all 37 that are in your list. Now, if there is not one that has an abstract 60 00:11:42.060 --> 00:11:53.340 Jonna Peterson: If it wasn't provided to the publisher of the journal by the author of the paper, it will not appear in this particular database. So not everything will have an abstract, but many, many papers will. 61 00:11:53.910 --> 00:12:01.680 Jonna Peterson: I'm going to scroll back up to the top of my list here and I'm going to talk about. I'm going to hide the abstracts, just to make my page a little bit shorter. 62 00:12:02.040 --> 00:12:07.470 Jonna Peterson: And then I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to click sort. And right now, again, we're still date newest 63 00:12:07.800 --> 00:12:15.540 Jonna Peterson: But the other citation or the other sorting mechanism. I want to show you in here is the one that says sorted first by cited by highest. 64 00:12:16.260 --> 00:12:26.430 Jonna Peterson: So when I take that and I click it, it re-shuffles my 37 references and it brings back the one that has been cited the most times 65 00:12:26.760 --> 00:12:35.190 Jonna Peterson: And that is this paper by lofty jam in 2008 from the Journal of Clinical Oncology, which has been cited 106 times would actually look like we have a tie. 66 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:45.780 Jonna Peterson: The one by Barrera has also been cited 106 times. So if you as the searcher were interested in these particular papers. 67 00:12:46.140 --> 00:12:53.700 Jonna Peterson: And interested in the papers that may have cited both Lofti-Jam and Barrera, you could go ahead and click the number 106 68 00:12:54.150 --> 00:12:59.490 Jonna Peterson: And it will then show you the hundred and six papers that have cited this particular document. 69 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:07.500 Jonna Peterson: And you have the all the same abilities to deal with these papers in the same way as if you have searched for them using concepts. 70 00:13:07.830 --> 00:13:13.830 Jonna Peterson: So you have the ability to limit them using the filters on the left side to toggle open and close the abstracts 71 00:13:14.220 --> 00:13:28.950 Jonna Peterson: To sort them by the date or by the number of times that these have been cited. So all of the same features, but only for the papers that have cited the original one, Lofti-Jam.. So I'm going to go back one window. 72 00:13:30.180 --> 00:13:37.860 Jonna Peterson: And take a look at my list one more time here and talk a little bit about exporting the content of this particular 73 00:13:38.850 --> 00:13:45.870 Jonna Peterson: Search. So if I decide that anything from my list here is interesting and I want to get a hold of it. 74 00:13:46.260 --> 00:14:01.410 Jonna Peterson: I can go ahead and actually click the numbers in front. So the boxes in front of the numbers there highlight the particular citations of interest and I can take these items and I can do lots of different things with them. So if I choose i can 75 00:14:02.820 --> 00:14:22.680 Jonna Peterson: I can print them. I can email them. I can save the selected documents as a PDF if I choose. I can export them. And I can also come in here and I can create just a brief bibliography, if I want. So those three citations need to be formatted in a style. I can come in here to the quick bib 76 00:14:23.730 --> 00:14:41.670 Jonna Peterson: Feature and I can choose one. I'm just a handful of Bibliography styles from the drop down menu. Let's pretend we want Vancouver for this recommendation of these three. I'm going to click Create Bibliography and hopefully what you're going to see is that you can see those three citations. 77 00:14:43.560 --> 00:14:50.010 Jonna Peterson: Format formatted in the style of Vancouver and I have selected. So Annette if that didn't happen just let me know. 78 00:14:52.560 --> 00:14:55.140 Jonna Peterson: So these three citations. 79 00:14:56.460 --> 00:15:02.280 Jonna Peterson: Are now available for me to copy and paste move into another document do whatever. I'd like to do with them. 80 00:15:02.610 --> 00:15:09.990 Jonna Peterson: So that's always a handy dandy little feature. So what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to go back to the place where I have those three citations highlighted. 81 00:15:10.260 --> 00:15:14.970 Jonna Peterson: So you can see that they're still highlighted there. And I can also decide to create a list. 82 00:15:15.570 --> 00:15:27.300 Jonna Peterson: So this is a temporary list. If I click the Add to List button a temporary list that helps me to keep track of citations are that are interesting to me. 83 00:15:27.930 --> 00:15:42.780 Jonna Peterson: without doing anything I can add items to the list. I can view I can manage the list. Now the downside of using a list, is it is temporary. When you close your web browser, the contents of your list will be cleared. 84 00:15:43.500 --> 00:15:53.940 Jonna Peterson: Unless you take precautions to save them beyond that session and in Scopus, the way that she would actually save those items is by creating an account. 85 00:15:54.390 --> 00:16:03.300 Jonna Peterson: And this is an account that you would create yourself, you would do it with a username and a password. It's not tied to Northwestern in any way. So if it. 86 00:16:04.050 --> 00:16:14.790 Jonna Peterson: You don't have to use like a net ID and a password to create it, although you could if you wanted to make your life, maybe a little less complicated to with one more username and password to remember but 87 00:16:16.110 --> 00:16:26.880 Jonna Peterson: You get to choose the username and the password for this. So the beauty of having a Scopus account is that you can save things for much longer than just a browser session. 88 00:16:28.230 --> 00:16:37.440 Jonna Peterson: You are also able to set up alerts, where you can ask the database to run a search on a certain interval of time for you. 89 00:16:38.490 --> 00:16:51.690 Jonna Peterson: You can also save a search in there and wait till you're ready and then you can click back into that account and choose to run it at a future date when there may or may not be additional citations published so 90 00:16:53.100 --> 00:17:02.880 Jonna Peterson: There are a lot of potential things that you could do with a Scopus account. So we recommend signing up for one if you think that you're going to be using this tool. 91 00:17:04.260 --> 00:17:07.290 Jonna Peterson: To save things beyond one session. 92 00:17:08.640 --> 00:17:22.710 Jonna Peterson: Probably the last thing that I'm going to discuss is how to export the content that you've selected to a bibliographic management tool. So in our case, we have our three citations highlighted. 93 00:17:23.160 --> 00:17:31.530 Jonna Peterson: And if I choose to export these. I'm going to go ahead and it's going to ask me what format, I would like to export these documents in. Now 94 00:17:31.830 --> 00:17:40.290 Jonna Peterson: at Northwestern. We have a site license for EndNote. If you do not yet have a bibliographic management product and are looking for one 95 00:17:40.770 --> 00:17:58.950 Jonna Peterson: and notice the one that's available to you free of charge. I would hope that you would have EndNote downloaded before you would go ahead and do this step in Scopus, because what it's going to do is once I select the amount of information I want to 96 00:18:00.120 --> 00:18:04.830 Jonna Peterson: Send. I'm going to ask it to go ahead and export 97 00:18:06.090 --> 00:18:13.590 Jonna Peterson: the content that I have highlighted and what you can hopefully see is that down in that lower left corner and has popped up a little 98 00:18:15.390 --> 00:18:29.190 Jonna Peterson: Scopus download essentially with that those items available in there and I can choose to go ahead and click this and it will automatically send those results over to my EndNote library of my choosing. 99 00:18:31.380 --> 00:18:43.950 Jonna Peterson: It is not required to use Scopus successfully that you have an EndNote account, but it's pretty darn nice to be able to just send the citation is that you find inside of Scopus directly to EndNote. 100 00:18:45.420 --> 00:18:51.900 Jonna Peterson: I just realized that the last thing I probably should show you is how to actually get to the full text of the article from in here. 101 00:18:53.220 --> 00:18:58.470 Jonna Peterson: So the last thing I'm going to show before I end my part of the session and turn it over to Annette. 102 00:18:59.040 --> 00:19:08.760 Jonna Peterson: Is the full text retrieval. So if you go ahead and you click if this article sounds good to you, you go ahead and click that find it at n you button. 103 00:19:09.600 --> 00:19:14.190 Jonna Peterson: It can come in here and it will actually search Northwestern's collection. 104 00:19:14.640 --> 00:19:30.630 Jonna Peterson: To see if we actually have this particular item as a part of our collection. And as we scroll down here, what you can see is that we do indeed have this particular journal and what we can do is click the American Society of Clinical Oncology 105 00:19:31.770 --> 00:19:36.450 Jonna Peterson: Link and hopefully it will get us as close as it can to the pdf of that item. 106 00:19:38.850 --> 00:19:40.680 Jonna Peterson: Let's see if it's going to load here. 107 00:19:41.850 --> 00:19:55.560 Jonna Peterson: I didn't try this ahead of time so I'm just gambling, but there it is. There's the article, and there is the the pdf icon right here in this tab. So it tries to get you as close as it can from this particular link inside the record. 108 00:19:57.690 --> 00:20:04.920 Jonna Peterson: But it doesn't always make it successfully sometimes it'll take you to the journal's table of contents and then you have to navigate yourself to the actual 109 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:06.720 Jonna Peterson: Journal article 110 00:20:08.940 --> 00:20:24.300 Jonna Peterson: With that, I am going to turn off the share and stop this recording and we will get set up here and Annette will pick up the second part of this particular workshop. So stay tuned. Thanks.