SciVerse Releases
Posted 10 May 2012 by The SciVerse Team
The Scopus title list has been updated with almost 300 new titles since the end of 2011. This brings the total number of active titles in Scopus to over 19,500. Scopus has a broad coverage in all subject areas with 33% of its titles in Health Sciences, 30% in Physical Sciences, 21% in Social Sciences and 16% in Life Sciences.
New in the title list are the additional tabs of post-1995...
Posted 07 May 2012 by The SciVerse Team
We are continuing to add enhancements that make information about SciVerse releases readily available and hopefully make your job easier. The Scopus Online Help Files have been updated to include a “What’s new in this release” section. How can you find this information? Click on Help in the top right-hand corner of Scopus and look to the bottom left-hand side of the Help...
Posted 27 April 2012 by The SciVerse Team
The Document Download Manager (DDM) allows users to select and automatically download, re-name and save multiple documents simultaneously. This service allows users to spend less time gathering information and more time for their real work. Initially, the Document Download Manager was only available for a limited number of browsers and we realize this has frustrated some of our users. We are...
Posted 20 April 2012 by The SciVerse Team
Until now, users of the IE9 browser have been frustrated with Scopus display issues, we understand and have been working on better browser compatibility. In preparation for full support of IE9 in the coming months, IE9 users will now be seamlessly redirected to run in IE7 compatibility mode. This will alleviate any display issues for Scopus users.
If you continue to experience issues, please...
Posted 22 March 2012 by SciVerse Team
With our latest release, changes focus specifically on responding to customer feedback, especially those addressing article rendering issues and performance. In addition, several enhancements are released resolving access and entitlement issues.
In order to optimize your PDF downloading experience, your network may require a configuration change, please click here to learn more.
Posted 17 March 2012 by The SciVerse Team
The below slides outline the updates to Scopus released 12 March 2012. While most of these changes have already been announced on the SciVerse blog, this goes into a bit more detail on why the updates were made. It also mentions some of the smaller updates not yet announced and introduces some of what I feel to be the most interesting new SciVerse Applications for Scopus.
For two of the...
Posted 16 March 2012 by The SciVerse Team
With this release you will notice that the familiar Web, Patents and More tabs are gone. In fact they have been replaced with links that will bring your Scopus search over to Hub so that you may continue your discovery in Hub. Please do take a moment to explore all that Hub has to offer.
Simply click on the link to continue your search in Hub for Web, Patents and more.
In...
Posted 12 March 2012 by The SciVerse Team
The SciVerse team is planning some upgrades and fixes in the coming weeks. Take a quick scan through some of the plans below for SciVerse ScienceDirect, Scopus, Applications & Hub to learn more.
SciVerse ScienceDirect
Responding to Your Feedback
Our upcoming changes will focus specifically on responding to customer feedback, especially those addressing article rendering issues...
Posted 11 March 2012 by The SciVerse Team
During the SciVerse releases in January and March, we are making improvements to tackle network latency issues in geographically dispersed locations. With these enhancements we aim to improve the experience of accessing SciVerse ScienceDirect static content (such as PDFs, logos, buttons and supplementary content).
For your institution to get the most out of these SciVerse ScienceDirect...
Posted 11 January 2012 by SciVerse Team
An online space to test out ideas and prototypes
Labs Applications allows developers, researchers and students to showcase applications, collaborate and get end-user feedback.
Labs Applications is an experimental platform launched on January 7th, 2012 that enables developers to demonstrate and test their prototype applications. These apps need to have only some basic functionality, which...
