Student Ambassadors Increase Awareness of Library Resource
During spring 2006, doctoral students Aldara Pan and Beatriz Soto worked part-time as Scopus Student Ambassadors at the University of Vigo in Spain. During that time they spoke with professors and lecturers as well as fellow students, sent mailings and generally increased the profile of Scopus at their institution.
Aldara Pan and Beatriz Soto
On their own initiative, these students translated Scopus facts and figures into Spanish and produced a placemat for serving trays at their campus cafeteria. Their hard work — reaching about 10,000 university community members — paid off, as indicated by a large increase in Scopus usage at the university while they served as ambassadors.
Aldara and Beatriz found the experience with Scopus valuable. In terms of their own research, they found Scopus made it quick and easy to locate relevant, high-quality
information and saved them time.
What part of their experience as Scopus Student Ambassadors did they find most rewarding? According to Aldara, “Our outreach put us in touch with many departments, faculties and students. So besides improving our research skills, through our efforts to help connect researchers with Scopus we improved our communication skills too. We realize this opportunity benefited our librarian and university, but we think most of all this opportunity benefited us!” 
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