This tutorial shows you the personalized features available to registered users in Scopus.
When you register in Scopus, you can:
To access your previously created Alerts, click the My Alerts button.
Now let's create some Alerts.
You can create a Search Alert from your search results page.
If you would like the search to run periodically and notify you of any new results, click the Save Alert link.
You can modify the properties of your Search Alert. Click the Create button to save the Alert.
Let's look at Document Citation Alerts.
To be notified by e-mail of newly loaded documents that cite the selected document, you can set up a Document Citation Alert.
Click the Set alert link.
Complete the properties information and click the Create button.
Now, let's look at Author Citation Alerts.
You can create an Author Citation Alert form the author details page.
To periodically run the search, click the Set alert link. Then you will be notified you when any paper published by the author is cited in another document.
You can modify the properties of your Author Citation Alert. Click the Create button to save the Alert.
Now, let's go back to the My Alerts page and see the Alert maintenance functions available.
Here, all of your Alerts are listed with links for reviewing, modifying, or deleting each Alert.
You can review the latest results of the Alert.
You can modify your e-mail address and the properties information of your Alerts from the Alerts page.
Changing the e-mail address in your personal registration profile does not change the e-mail address you have associated with your Alerts.
You can delete your Alerts from the Alerts page.
You can set up an RSS feed and receive a periodic update to your RSS reader when articles become available which meet the criteria of your Alert.
Click the Set new ... Alert links and perform another search to be saved as a Search Alert, to retrieve a document to be saved as a Document Citation Alert, or to access author details and create an Author Citation Alert.
To access your document list from your current Scopus session, click the My List button.
This list is temporary and will be deleted at the end of your session.
To keep this list for another session, click the Save this list link.
Here, you can enter a list name and save the new list or add the documents to a previously saved list.
Saved lists can be accessed from your My settings page.
To access more personal account features, click the My settings link.
Links to the available personalized features are listed.
You can save searches from your Search History table or from your search results.
To see a list of your saved searches, click the Saved Searches link.
Several features are available on the My saved searches page.
You can combine saved search requests to create a new search request.
You can re-run the search request and retrieve all the results, including those documents published after the last run of the search request.
You can re-run the search request and retrieve only the new documents published after the last run of the search request.
You can access the search request as originally entered in the search form and edit the search request.
You can set up an email Alert for a particular search request.
You can request an RSS feed for a particular search request.
Let's go back to the My settings page.
To access your current Alerts, click the My Alerts link.
To access your saved document lists, click the My Saved Lists link.
To review the documents in a list, click the list name.
Let's go back to the My settings page.
To access your lists of grouped authors, click the Grouped authors link.
From here you can quickly access an author's details page.
To edit an author list, click the Edit link.
Let's go back
To make changes to your profile information or personal user preferences, click the My profile link.
You can update your profile or change the personal user preferences you have selected.
Let's take a look at another feature.
If you have a subscription to the reference manager, RefWorks, you can maintain your RefWorks information here. This will expedite your RefWorks login when you want to export citations to RefWorks.
This will expedite your RefWorks login when you want to export citations to RefWorks.
To change your personal login password, click the Change Password link.
If you have installed any applications, you can manage them here.
For more information about the personalized features in Scopus, go to the Scopus online Help.
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