Scopus

Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature in scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and arts and humanities over 19,000 titles from more than 5,000 publishers. It provides 18,500 peer-reviewed journals (including 1,800 open access journals), 400 trade publications, 340 book series, and 4.9 million conference proceedings. From 47 million records, there are 26 million records with references back to 1996, 21 million records pre-1996 which go back as far as 1823, 4.9 million conference papers from proceedings and journals, and “Articles-in-Press” from over 3,850 journals.

How to begin
Go to http://www.car.chula.ac.th/curef-db/slist.html#general and click Scopus. The screen is shown as the following picture. 

Information search
1. Search
   1.1 Document search
        1.1.1 Select Document search tab
        1.1.2 Type words or phrases in Search for box
        1.1.3 Select fields
        1.1.4 Click Add search field to add another box (as users need), type words or phrases in the box, select fields, and select proper operator
        1.1.5 Select date range
        1.1.6 Select document type
        1.1.7 Select subject areas
        1.1.8 Click Search 

   1.2 Author search
        1.2.1 Select Author search tab
        1.2.2 Type author's last name, and, if possible, author's first name and affiliation
        1.2.3 Select subject areas
        1.2.4 Click Search 

   1.3 Affiliation search
        1.3.1 Select Affiliation search tab
        1.3.2 Type affiliation name
        1.3.3 Click Search 

2. Sources
2.1 Quick Search: Type words or phrases in Quick Search box and click Search
2.2 Browse Sources: Select subject area and source type, click Display sources, and then select the first alphabet of interested source titles
2.3 Source Search: Type words or phrases in Search box, select field, and click Search 

3. Analytics
   3.1 Type words or phrases in Search box, select field, select subject area, and then click Search
   3.2 Double-click the interested journal titles or drag to the chart
   3.3 Select interested information tab to view the chart 

Search results and result management

1. Users can sort results by selecting date (newest), date (oldest), cited by, relevance, first author (A-Z), first author (Z-A), or source title (A-Z).
2. Users can search within results by typing words or phrases in Search within results box and click Search.
3. Users can refine results by selecting year, author name, subject area, document type, source title, keyword, affiliation, country, source type, and language, and then click Limit to. 

Information management

1. To download the abstract or full text of document(s), depending on availability, select the interested documents, and then click Download
2. To export citation(s) to EndNote, select the interested documents, click Export, select export format: RIS format, select output, and then click Export
3. To view information of an interested document, click the title of document
4. To view abstract of an interested document, click Show abstract
5. To view related documents of an interested document, click Related documents
6. To view document(s) which cited an interested document, click the number on the right side under the topic Cited by 

When users click the title of interested document, the screen will be shown as the following picture.

1. To download the abstract or full text of the document, depending on availability, click Download
2. To export citation to EndNote, click Export, select export format: RIS format, select output, and then click Export
3. To view document(s) which cited the document, click number of times 