• RT @BoraZ: RT @brainpicker Free Radicals: Unraveling the Secret Anarchy and Serendipity of Science http://t.co/nXpxq3Uy 2012-04-26
• @aarontay also Download Manager now supports Chrome, etc. A top priority is to to fully support all major browsers by Q4/Q1. in reply to aarontay 2012-04-26
• @michelleoyen Great meeting you as well. What are your thoughts after looking at SNIP? in reply to michelleoyen 2012-04-26
• How researchers network http://t.co/if6NVjH1 2012-04-26
• RT @DublinCore: Harvard bibliographic data released under open license http://t.co/geTuijj4 ; OCLC post: http://t.co/HPeBfzmW 2012-04-25
• @Stew Just checked out @altmetric beta, well done. 2012-04-25
• RT @papersapp: Big day! Official Papers for Windows release, Papers 2.2 release, and major updates in Papers for iOS. The #Papersapp fam … 2012-04-24
• RT @mistersugar: Anyone following me in the last few weeks & who doesn’t know about #scio13, pls see http://t.co/OR7GZzYn http://t.c … 2012-04-24
• The Photo App Facebook Didn’t Buy: Hipstamatic http://t.co/UGnEby4r via @Inc 2012-04-24
• RT @CameronNeylon: Congrats to @mfenner who is coming to PLoS to be technical lead on the Article Level Metrics project #altmetrics #woo … 2012-04-23
• Found on #Scopus: Making Bibliographic Researchers More Efficient: Tools for Organizing and Downloading PDFs, Part 1: http://t.co/p8AvPS7I 2012-04-23
• Found on #Sciverse #Scopus: Validating online reference managers for scholarly impact measurement http://t.co/PAyzSfe1 #altmetrics 2012-04-23
• Internet Explorer 9 display issues resolved | SciVerse Scopus http://t.co/R9n2mBuL 2012-04-23
• RT @clearsci: If you could live forever, would you? #SciBarCamb debate. 13 ayes to 25 noes. 2012-04-22
• RT @michelleoyen: best tweet of the day “@easternblot: @IanMulvany Were you a lesbian mouse?” #SciBarCamb 2012-04-21
• RT @sharmanedit: #scibarcamb Answer from @ianmulvany: ideal would be a Research Object on github with unit tests that would continually … 2012-04-21
• RT @IanMulvany: This years #scibarcamb is brilliant. 2012-04-21
• RT @petermurrayrust: #scibarcamb @Ianmulvany shyould use Amazon WS for publishing as they have much of the technology already 2012-04-21
• RT @VibhutiJPatel: In the future will we go from articles to interactive ‘research objects’ to record scientific progress in a more comp … 2012-04-21
• RT @stuffysour: #scibarcamb #elife @ianmulvaney says “I’d love to see us publish a high-impact piece of software and have *that* be the … 2012-04-21
• #scibarcamb #elife will work with #dryad for data. measure of reuse beyond citation? 2012-04-21
• RT @petermurrayrust: #scibarcamb @Ianmulvany hope article-level metrics will be a driver 2012-04-21
• RT @stuffysour: #scibarcamb @ianmulvaney about new #oa journal #eLife: “It’s insane – we really have carte blanche to do what we want!” 2012-04-21
• #scibarcamb elife will pay reviewers, reviews to be published with DOIs. Lightweight and high quality, how? 2012-04-21
• RT @laurawheelers: ‘ELife feedback – What would you do with 20 million pounds?’ @ianmulvany #scibarcamb session starting! 2012-04-21
• RT @dellybean: The Genographic Project from NatGeo to analyse your mitochondrial DNA: https://t.co/SSggC3qd as mentioned at #scibarcamb 2012-04-21
• RT @michelleoyen: Oh even better, flying elephants. #SciBarCamb 2012-04-21
• RT @NinaBeadle: Would it be appropriate to eat cultured burgers made from human cells?? #SciBarCamb 2012-04-21
• #SciBarCamb #li (@ Cambridge Union Society) http://t.co/A4nUD54W 2012-04-21

• RT @ORCID_Org: Version 1.0.4 of the ORCID Mock API Released http://t.co/kp5shhX0 2012-03-23
• RT @judso: Integrate apps in #sciencedirect #scopus #sciverse http://t.co/BQTXMrYq 2012-03-23
• Scopus March 2012 release overview: New abstract page, Interop. w/ Hub, Lipid Structures, etc. | SciVerse http://t.co/zIGIfWZ2 -cross posted 2012-03-22
• RT @jasonpriem: @noahWG @CameronNeylon @BoraZ @mbeisen @mfenner More #altmetrics data like…THIS? http://t.co/1iRcf7Km (brand new from … 2012-03-22
• Found on #Sciverse: Personalization is not a panacea: Balancing serendipity and personalization in medical news content http://t.co/Yhh8zLdo 2012-03-20
• Scopus Release 12-1 Blog update | SciVerse http://t.co/fRhv4EmL 2012-03-19

The below slides outline the updates to Scopus released last weekend. While most of these changes have already been announced on the SciVerse blog, this goes into a bit more detail on why the updates were made. It also mentions some of the smaller updates not yet announced and introduces some of what I feel to be the most interesting new SciVerse Applications for Scopus.

For two of the more interesting projects, I would like to go into more detail on the process and rationale behind the changes. One of the most noticeable changes is that the interface of the  main panel of the Document Details (Abstract) page has been completely overhauled.  The primary goal for this revamp was to improve the scanability and readability of the page.

We started with the user research already done for the Article of the Future and the new article page on ScienceDirect. From that foundation, our User-Centered Design group developed a prototype and conducted usability studies with researchers and librarians to determine which design elements transferred to  Scopus. As part of this research, we gathered information on which parts of the page users scan for first. The implemented design then focused on optimizing the visual hierarchy, so that the most used information is more prominent. Fonts were also optimized throughout to make reading of abstracts and other elements easier.

The other most noticeable change is the replacement of the tabs from the Document search results pages. When enabled, these tabs would run a users search on Web and Patent content from Scirus. The new links instead display the results in SciVerse Hub. While all existing functionality remains, Hub offers a lot of advantages to the tab structure. Most importantly, Hub offers improved relevancy rankings and additional refine options.  Hub also collapses multiple copies of the same document into a single record.

As part of this update, we now only display the links if results are available and display the results count in the link. Some readers may remember that this count used to be in the tabs, but was removed. Usage has since proven that display of this count is extremely important for users. The More tab has been replaced by a link to “Secondary documents” that works exactly the same as the tab. Our User-Centered Design group also developed a prototype and conducted usability studies to optimize these changes.

Hopefully the the above slides and description, help to give a full picture as to how the recent updates help improve the Scopus user experience.  Please feel free to leave feedback on these changes in the comments.

• RT @jasonpriem: Solid @insidehighered piece summarizing research on Twitter as means of scholarly dissemination. http://t.co/Vvo7PEpO #a … 2012-03-09
• RT @jasonpriem: total-impact gets £17,000 support from OSF: http://t.co/kQVsGwYK #epicwin #altmetrics 2012-03-09
• RT @daveyp: Deleting 10,000 MARC records. One of the few simple pleasures in life. DIE, MARC DIE! #ManiacalLaugh 2012-03-08
• RT @TAC_NISO: Library of Congress has announced that they will fully implement RDA: Resource Description and Access by 3/31/13 http://t. … 2012-03-08
• RT @jgold85: Important research: Beards augment perceptions of men’s age, social status, & aggressiveness, but not attractiveness http:/ … 2012-03-08
• RT @miriamkp: Opening for digital scholarship coordinator at Columbia U Library. http://t.co/bFYBTtJQ #altac 2012-03-08
• RT @mfenner: New blog post: Why I still like FriendFeed, why Twitter is important and other thoughts about #Altmetrics http://t.co/zvkxbtfM 2012-03-06
• RT @researchremix: New post: Talking text mining with Elsevier http://t.co/kSe9iryC 2012-03-06
• RT @totalimpactdev: feedback wanted: updated api spec http://t.co/kyBqBQPX 2012-03-04

The primary feature in last Sunday’s Scopus release is the new “Analyze results“ tool previewed in my last post.  This builds directly on the “Export refine” functionality launched last May.  ”Export refine” enabled much of the same analysis, but required a user to manipulate raw data in a CSV file.  By adding this directly into Scopus, “Analyze results” expands the reach of this functionality to less advanced users.

“Analyze results” is also a descendant of the Documents section of the Author Evaluator launched in August 2010.  Essentially “Analyze results” expands the ability of the Author Evaluator from visualizing information about a single author’s publications to visualizing aggregate publication information on any arbitrary set of results.  Thus, the power of “Analyze results” is proportionate to the care and complexity of the query being examined.

Worth noting is that, “Analyze results” is different from the existing “View Citation Overview” function in that it evaluates quantity rather than quality.  Another difference is that “Analyze results” examines the whole set of results, while “View Citation Overview” looks only at a selected subset of results.  However, there are links within “Analyze Results” to the appropriate quality analysis tools in Scopus including the Journal Analyzer and Author Evaluator.

I am most excited about the “Source Title” tab of “Analyze Results” because it takes analysis one step deeper than a simple “Export refine”.  Furthermore, I believe the link to “Compare Source Titles in Journal Analyzer” is the true killer feature of  ”Analyze Results” as it will enable a user to compare journals on both subject matter and quality.  An example of this is described in both the training desk video and my previous post.

Please feel free to share feedback or comments on “Analyze results” or other enhancements from this release.

Available now is the video of my plenary talk at the 11th International Conference on Scientific Digitalization of Cultural and Scientific Heritage, University Repositories and Distance Learning. My slides and notes are available here.

• @PascalVanHecke Thanks. Checking them out now… @mydivvi in reply to PascalVanHecke 2011-11-22
• @mfenner @joergheber Scopus profiles can be edited at http://t.co/tv41vGkm (updates go through QA team + take a couple of weeks) in reply to mfenner 2011-11-22

• André, P.,Teevan, J., Dumais, S. T.(2009) From X-Rays to Silly Putty via Uranus: Serendipity and its Role in Web Search http://t.co/RJvw1POf 2011-10-07
• “Thematic issue on the opportunistic discovery of information…” Information Research – Vol. 16 No. 3 http://t.co/WfEOjTBf #serendipity 2011-10-07
• For a chance to win an iPad2, download SciVerse Scopus or ScienceDirect for iPhone, Android, or BlackBerry | http://t.co/QZah5LdR 2011-10-06