Jeffrey Young, Scientific Publisher to Offer Search Engine for Article Abstracts, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 14, 2004 (accessible only to subscribers). Excerpt: "About 50 colleges are participating in the test of the search tool, called Scopus. It searches journals from many publishers, and is expected to be widely available this fall. Company officials will not say how much the service will cost. Libraries that subscribe to the service can customize it so that users can go directly from search results to the full text of an article if the college has an electronic subscription to the journal, or to catalog information if the college has a paper copy. Scopus also searches a selected group of academic Web sites. The tool seems designed to compete with Thomson ISI's popular Web of Science search engine....Like its competitors, Scopus can point readers to all articles that cite a particular scholarly work. But Elsevier officials say their service includes material from nearly twice as many journals as Web of Science, which indexes about 8,700 titles. [Scopus indexes over 14,000 journals.] 'That's going to have quite a major impact on the citations,' says Harriet Bell, a senior marketing manager for Elsevier. 'You'll get to see articles that cited your papers that you wouldn't get from the Web of Science.' "
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/10/2004 03:33:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
