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Winter Release ScienceDirect & Scopus
Saturday, December 1, 2012

The next release for ScienceDirect and Scopus is scheduled for Saturday, December 1 and will focus on infrastructure improvements. We are not expecting significant downtime, though some products may experience minor disruptions. The Hub and RSS feeds for ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable during the times specified at the end of this message.

An update that we are particularly excited to announce is internet browser support to include Google Chrome for PC and now support Google Chrome, Safari and Firefox for Mac. We also will continue to support Firefox and IE 7, 8, and 9 for PC; however, with this release, we will cease to support IE6 for Scopus.

Though complete support for iOS and Android browsers has not been added, bugs have been fixed there as well and the...

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Summer 2012 Release

SciVerse will be presenting a number of enhancements after Sunday, August 26, when the new release will take effect. Read through our blog entries to see what improvements you can expect to experience product by product.

Improved User Experience

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ScienceDirect: Efficient and effortless access to relevant information thanks to a new design for journal article and book chapter pages as well as improved user experience for e.g. RSS feeds, image search, and many other features and functionality

Hub is releasing several new features making us faster and friendlier!

 

Updated Display Options for Hub

The “display options” on Hub’s search results page will now be displayed as drop down menus. We think this simple change will make it easier for users to browse the results according to their preferences. Also, to make it easier to differentiate types of content, when a user hovers over the icons in search results, they now will all have the correct descriptions of the source type.

Improving the Layout of Selected Sources Results

For our users who have been using the Selected Sources linking from Scopus to Hub, we are shortening the query string once the users arrive in...

Scopus March 2012 release overview: New Document Details Pages, Interoperability with Hub, Lipid Structures (beta), etc.
Saturday, March 17, 2012

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.

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hub, lipids, Release, scopus, usability

Take A Look at What We Are Planning…
Saturday, March 17, 2012

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 and performance. In addition, several enhancements are planned for 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.

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SciVerse Release information
Saturday, January 7, 2012

SciVerse presents exciting new features on January 7th, 2012. Read through our blog entries below to learn more about each product!

  • Hub: dropping its 'beta', SciVerse Hub is now open to researchers worldwide
  • ScienceDirect: enriched new article and easy ordering of MARC21 records through the Admin Tool
  • Scopus: new, one-click graphical analysis of your search results...

SciVerse Hub is Now Open to the Public!
Saturday, January 7, 2012

Now everyone can access Hub.
SciVerse Hub is now available not only to SciVerse customers, but also to the general public. With a completely new look and the “Beta” removed, Hub now features a more powerful search across an expanded content set with fine-tuned de-duplication. Greater customization through My Library and Applications offers all users the ability to amplify their results.

New Hub. New Look. New features:

  • New home page and navigation provide easier access to key areas, and specific zones to help educate and orient users, powered by Applications.
  • Fine...

Postponed: SciVerse scheduled outage now early 2012
Saturday, January 7, 2012

Important notice emailed to SciVerse customers on 8 December 2011

Some of you have expressed concerns to us about the timing of our upcoming outage (originally scheduled for this Saturday, 10 December 2011) and its impact on end-of-year research, exams, and other activities. As a result, the Elsevier team has decided to postpone our scheduled maintenance until early 2012; we will notify you ahead of this with further details regarding timing and duration.

If you have any further feedback or questions, please direct them to us at SciVerse@elsevier.com, and a member of the...

SciVerse Release Summary
Friday, September 9, 2011

Your search, your way

Through September 2011, Elsevier launched several important enhancements to its SciVerse platform that expand your search options, speed up your research and boost efficiency.

More to discover

• In SciVerse ScienceDirect, users may see up to three related PDF articles based on topic relevance to the PDF article they download.
• In SciVerse Scopus, searching the references will now find web site addresses (URLs).

Easier to use

• SciVerse Hub users will appreciate the easier and more powerful tabbed approach to advanced searching.
• SciVerse Scopus users will benefit from an expandable advanced search box, an...

September 2011 Release Hub
Friday, September 9, 2011

Through September Elsevier launched several enhancements to the SciVerse platform to enable an improved user workflow.  Your search, your way is the theme and improvements to Hub functionality aim to give users more control over how they search as well as offer new ways for users to find more relevant results for their research.

What does this mean for SciVerse Hub?

More Intuitive Search

Hub makes search more intuitive with the new Tabbed Query Builder. Simply click on the new “Refine” button at any time during your search, and this new tabbed-search tool helps users to create more powerful queries and identify relevant results.  Librarians can be excited to know Hub now has...