November 19, 2019

The Office of Research and Innovation and the Office of Institutional Advancement have invested in two Elsevier solutions in support of the research enterprise: Scopus and SciVal.

On Tuesday, December 10, 2019, Elsevier will be on-site to provide a hands-on introduction to these two solutions.

Scopus – Discover, analyze & network (1 hour session offered at either 8:30am or 1:00pm)
Scopus is the broadest source of global scientific research, featuring citations from scientific journals, books and conference proceedings to help you to track, analyze and visualize research, and foster collaboration.

In the session, you will learn:

• How to Interpret and work with author profiles (author identity)
• Execute searches using the full range of topical search functionality offered in Scopus (search strategies)
• Conduct comparative analytics and develop visualizations

Please register no later than Friday, December 6, 2019. Please bring your laptop/tablet to the session.

SciVal – Evaluate, plan & benchmark (2 hour session offered from 10:00am to 12:00pm)
SciVal, a web-based analytics solution, allows you to visualize research performance, benchmark relative to peers, develop collaborative partnerships and analyze new, emerging research trends, and create uniquely tailored reports to establish, evaluate and execute best strategies. Using advanced data analytics, SciVal allows you to instantly process an enormous amount of data and provides access to more than 280 trillion metric values to generate powerful data visualizations on-demand.

In this session, you will learn:

• Visualize research performance with ready made at a glance snapshots of any given entity
• Flexibility to create and compare different groups and research areas
• Identify and analyze existing and potential collaboration opportunities
• Analyze research trends to discover the top performers and rising stars

Please register no later than Friday, December 6, 2019. Please bring your laptop/tablet to the session.

Who should attend?

• Researchers doing analysis in their field, discovering collaborators and assessing prominence within their topics of research 
• Institutional leaders assessing institutional productivity, strengths, areas for improvement, talent recruitment & retention, identifying collaboration opportunities and researcher impact
• Librarians working with faculty members and institutional leaders