Scopus as Theme for Library Outreach Meeting

The library organised a open meeting for staff of the UMCG on December 7th, focussed around the scientific database SCOPUS.
The audience (53) -mainly researchers and a few clinicians, but also a couple of librarians of the Library of the University of Groningen. (we simply couldn't keep them out of the room :-)- were gathered in the so-called "Rode Zaal".
Presenter was Chris James, Account Development Manager at Elsevier.
In his first session he covered the basics of Scopus and tried to get some response from the audience. Some remarkable responses:

"who is using Scopus?" : no hands. (Scopus became available at the University in the second part of 2008)
"Web of Science" : no hands

Comment: Clinical and medical research staff is using Pubmed heavily. Database choices and search habits are hard to influence and change takes time. We probably also got a relative "new" group of researchers. And still a lot of work to do as library in reaching out.
The Scopus presentation is available below.

Scopus Intro 2009 Groningen

View more documents from Centrale Medische Bibliotheek, Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen (UMCG).

Before the break I then did a 30 minute demo of library services, resources and new tools.

Demo CMB : services and tools

View more presentations from Guus van den Brekel.

My talk: library services and resources, workshops, support for research, toolbar, off-campus access, library toolbox: Netvibes public page, RSS, PurpleSearch
Remarkable: no hands on using Facebook or Hyves, 100% using Pubmed, 50% Google Scholar,

Interesting links:

JISC Academic Database Assessment Tool
"This site from JISC Collections aims to help libraries to make informed decisions about future subscriptions to bibliographic and full text databases. More information about the site's data sourcing and comparison method is available on the 'About' page."
Medical RSS sites:

MedWorm
FeedNavigator Terkko
RSS4Medicics: http://www.rss4medics.com/
TicTocs: http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/

SCImago Journal & Country Ranking

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