Scopus
Scopus is an abstract and citation database including more than 75 million citations, from approximately 25,000 titles and 5,000 publishers. Updated daily, Scopus covers content from the following four areas: health sciences, physical sciences, life sciences, and social sciences. It contains 190,000+ books. Scopus can be searched by subject, author, or affiliation.
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Keyword Searching
The Scopus database is a keyword searching database, meaning that it doesn't use a specialized terminology like MeSH in MEDLINE. As the searcher, you are responsible for generating all the synonyms for the concepts you would like to search. For example, if you want to search for information on "cardiac arrest," you must also search "heart attack," "myocardial infarction," and "MI."
Getting to Scopus from the Galter Library Website
Choose Scopus from the Popular Resources menu on the Galter Library website to access Scopus. Accessing Scopus from the Galter Library website ensures you will see links to full-text journal subscriptions through Galter.
Take a Class!
- Class ScheduleThe Galter Library teaches a related class called Scopus. See our Classes schedule for the next available offering.
- Request a ClassIf this class is not on our upcoming schedule, it is still available to you or your group by request (Feinberg School of Medicine affiliates). In order to request a class, you will need to login into the Galter Library page.
Videos and Transcripts
These videos are recordings of the library class we teach on Scopus. They are hosted in Northwestern Medicine's institutional repository, Prism, and require an NU NetID login. Once in Prism, click the "Download" link for the best quality.