Elsevier Library Connect Newsletter: TrainingDesk Flash

Volume 7 • Number 1
January 2009
ISSN: 1549-3725
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Theme: Performance & Planning

welcome

features

Much more arts & humanities coverage on Scopus is coming How we’re laying the foundation for a culture of assessment at our university libraries Here’s an update on Elsevier’s ROI study looking at academic libraries New online community Innovation Explorers seeks librarian members The Norwegian paradox: A revealing case study about research policy and numbers Swimming against the current: Academic performance and planning in an era of rapid technological change Hiroyuki Tomizawa talks about using Scopus data to drive OECD’s innovation strategy Visualizing research performance: Bringing strategic insight to research management

center of attention

Library assessment from a fresh perspective Three tips to help us, as we all transform into Next Gen librarians

community connections

James Weyhenmeyer, PhD, senior vice provost for research at the State University of New York, talks about academic research funding Funding intelligence tool: Launching soon to provide a better grip on the funding landscape ticTOCs makes it easy to keep up with STM journal content

behind the scenes

Case study: Ideas4Science.com demonstrated that info pros and researchers see value in an online community approach to exchanging ideas ScienceDirect College Edition gains content and flexibility

on the road

Taking innovation to greater heights in Chinese higher education Nordic library directors assess impact of investments in knowledge and research Librarians and academics discuss STM journal and book publishing

staying connected

TrainingDesk Flash Ask UCD: What are some tips for planning usability activities so they are most effective? Want research summaries by experts? Look to SciTopics ScienceDirect now offers Elsevier Doyma medical collection in Spanish Upcoming Events 2008 Library Connect Editorial Team

New edition of popular LC pamphlet now available
The third edition of “Ways to Use Journal Articles Published by Elsevier: A Practical Guide” is hot off the press. Mailed with this newsletter issue, the updated pamphlet is available online at www.elsevier.com/libraryconnect.

Susannah Megow, with Elsevier's TrainingDesk, highlights learning resources offering practical assistance

Susannah Megow

Q: How can Scopus help the peer-review process?

A: For editors, searching and selecting qualified reviewers is a challenging process. For reviewers, the peer-review process requires evaluating an author’s work against other similar work.

To help editors and reviewers with these peer-review tasks, Elsevier provides free access to Scopus through the Elsevier Editorial System. Scopus is integrated directly into EES, eliminating the need to toggle between systems.

Via EES, editors receive free Scopus access for the duration of their editorship, and each reviewer who accepts a reviewer invitation receives 30 days of free Scopus access.

Here are key questions that Scopus via EES helps editors and reviewers answer:

What has an author previously published? By clicking on the Scopus Author Search quick link in the EES menu, editors and reviewers can instantly access links to the author’s abstracts and fulltext articles (when available).
What is the author’s overall impact and research performance? By visiting an author’s detail page in Scopus, editors and reviewers can quickly view an author’s h-index. The h-index is a contemporary metric to qualify the impact and quantity of an individual’s research performance. Editors can also use the h-index to evaluate potential reviewers and help find editorial board candidates.
Who should review this paper? By performing a subject matter search in Scopus, editors can easily identify the most highly cited publications in the field, click on Abstract + Refs to find author contact details, and invite top researchers to review. This expands an editor’s reviewer bank beyond her or his own connections or author recommendations.
What additional key works does the author need to review or reference? As a reviewer searches Scopus, he or she can use the Scopus RefWorks feature to quickly build and include, along with the reviewer’s comments, a recommended bibliography list for the author to consider.

Are you looking for additional ways to use Scopus? View recorded sessions from our recent Fall for Scopus program: www.trainingdesk.elsevier.com/topic-tags/index.asp.

And, you can learn more about how Elsevier helps support the journal publishing process! Sign up to receive our TrainingDesk Newsletter listing upcoming training sessions: http://trainingdesk.elsevier.com/signup/.

s.megow@elsevier.com
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