World's largest STM content database launched by Elsevier.Elsevier (London/New York York, former name of Toronto, Canada York, Ont.: see Toronto, Ont., Canada. York, city, England York, city (1991 pop. 123,126) and district, North Yorkshire, N England, at the confluence of the Ouse and Foss rivers. ) will launch SeopusInfo, a comprehensive scientific, medical, technical (STM (Scanning Tunneling Microscope) A microscope that can image down to the atomic level. An STM uses a piezoelectric tube with a tiny sharp tip at the end that is moved within nanometers of the object being sampled. ) and social science abstract and indexing database that carries content from over 4000 STM publishers, in November. Site licenses are available. Elsevier said Seopus was conceived solely in response to librarian (1) A person who works in the data library and keeps track of the tapes and disks that are stored and logged out for use. Also known as a "file librarian" or "media librarian." See data library. (2) See CA-Librarian. and user requirements, and is the result of a two-year collaboration with librarians This is a list of people who have practised as a librarian and are well-known, either for their contributions to the library profession or primarily in some other field. and researchers at over 20 institutions worldwide. The database includes 27 million records covering articles from 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from 4000 international publishers including 400 open access journals. More than 60% of the titles come from outside the U.S. with abstracts going back to 1966. Subjects covered by Scopes include: Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Engineering (4500 titles); Life and Health Sciences (5900 titles); Social Sciences, Psychology and Economics (2700 titles); Biological, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (2500 titles); and General Sciences (50 titles). It also carries 100% coverage of Medline, including unique Medline journals. Elsevier said users can access more European European emanating from or pertaining to Europe. European bat lyssavirus see lyssavirus. European beech tree fagussylvaticus. European blastomycosis see cryptococcosis. and Asia-Pacific literature than is covered in any other single A&I database. In addition to its A&I coverage, users can search the scientific web directly from the Scopus interface. Scirus, the web search engine See Web search engines. for scientific information, gives users access to over 167 million pages of scientific information on the web, including author homepages, university sites, corporate information a variety of other sites. "Early on in market research," Scopus senior marketing manager Harriet Bell said, "we were struck by the fact that even within one article, many of the references site literature across different disciplines. One of the greatest strengths of Scopus is that you can click on those references to view the record or go to full text." |
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