Scopus
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Scopus is a large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed scientific, technical, medical and social sciences literature and quality web sources with tools to track, analyze and visualize research.

Scopus offers access to:

• 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000 international publishers, including
  • over 1200 Open Access journals
  • 500 conference proceedings
  • over 600 trade publications
  • 200 book series
• Results from 386 million scientific web pages
• 22 million patent records from 5 patent offices (US Patent and Trademark Office, European Patent Office, Japan Patent Office, World Intellectual Property Organization and UK Intellectual Property Office)
• Over 80 selected sources e.g. institutional repositories, digital archives and special subject collections

It also offers the following research tools:

• Scopus Citation Tracker to find, check and track citation data year by year and in real-time
• Scopus Author Identifier to distinguish between results from authors with the same name and to capture all results for an author whose name is recorded in different ways
• Scopus Affiliation Identifier to automatically identify and match an organization with all its research output
• The h-index as a means to evaluate research performance of an author, complemented by unique graphs
• PatentCites to track how primary research is practically applied in patents
• WebCites to track the influence of peer-reviewed research on web literature

Subject coverage: multi-discipline
Update frequency: daily
Location: Web (remote access available)