The Scopus database is updated daily and includes Health Sciences, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, and Life Sciences:
- 21K+ journal titles
- 64 million+ records
- 131,000+ book titles
- 7.5 million conference papers from over 90k gobal events.
By registering as a Scopus user, you are able to create search, document, and author alerts to stay up-to-date at your desired frequency. Use these alerts to receive email notices when new documents are loaded on Scopus. From the Alerts page, you can create alerts, view the latest results for an alert, edit alerts, and delete alerts. There is no limit on the number of alerts you can create.
A Search alert is a saved search that you can schedule to run at certain intervals. If any new results are found, you will receive an email with the first 25 results and a link into Scopus to access all new results. You must be logged in to set an alert or work with your saved alerts.
To set a new search alert:
- From the Document search page, perform a new search. The Search results page opens.
- From the search results page, click Set alert. The Set Alert pop-up opens.
- Set the frequency and day of week to start alerts.
To set an author alert:
- From the Author search page, perform a new search. The Search results page opens.
- From the search results page, click an author's name. The author details page opens.
- From the author details page, click Get citation alerts. The Set Alert Author Citation Alert pop-up opens.
To set a document alert:
- From the Document search page, perform a new search. The Search results page opens.
- From the search results page, click an document's name. The Document details page opens.
- From the Document details page, click Set citation alerts. The Set Document Citation Alert pop-up opens.
View this helpful video on using Scopus alerts: