• 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: We started a listing of all publications talking about ORCID: http://t.co/KOxsBfJ1 2012-04-13
• RT @grsprings: putting together a panel on the academic job search process for the Rutgers MLIS Career Fair – anything i should be certa … 2012-04-11
• RT @datadryad: New Utopia Docs ( http://t.co/58rFcec2 ) links PDFs to Dryad data, even if the PDF does not mention Dryad! http://t.co/k22JwTrx 2012-04-10
• RT @NCBI: Developers: Learn about NLM APIs, including NCBI’s EUtilities, with a free webinar on April 10th -> see: http://t.co/fbgu9OYg 2012-04-09
• Netflix Recommendations: Beyond the 5 stars (Part 1) http://t.co/d96kVDUY 2012-04-09
• RT @lorcanD: RT @verge Netflix offers details on its recommendation engine, says it guides 75 percent of viewership http://t.co/sR8zqclY 2012-04-09

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 @McDawg: Also related – what do folks think about open peer review? Here’s the most recent poll I’m aware of http://t.co/DqhSkE6g #acwri 2012-03-15
• RT @invisiblecomma: I like DOIs, and I like Content Negotiation: http://t.co/VtwCBYf5 (and I’m glad @phillord is drawing attention to so … 2012-03-15
• RT @grsprings: library directors & senior administrators – please take my survey: http://t.co/FSazvB1x 2012-03-13
• RT @datadryad: “Big shoulders in scholarly communication: data archiving and altmetrics” slides from @researchremix at #HWMtg2012 http: … 2012-03-13
• RT @cazzerson: Congrats! RT @LibraryJournal: Movers & Shakers 2012: The People Shaping the Future of Libraries: http://t.co/0u7LW1E0 #li … 2012-03-13
• RT @Stew: Here’s a sneak peek video tour of the new Altmetric Explorer: http://t.co/GsyA3NCS . Sign up for early access at http://t.co/f … 2012-03-13
• RT @franknorman: “A transition to new breed of scientists who understand importance of sci netwks” What Is A Scientific Social Network? … 2012-03-12
• RT @SciVerseHub: Take A Look at What We Are Planning…:
  Release Date:Monday, March … htt … 2012-03-12
• Found on #Sciverse:Use of library space and the library as place http://t.co/DSOyTzb0 2012-03-12
• RT @briankelly: Twitterers Do It In Bed! Do you tweet work stuff in bed? Is this good or bad? https://t.co/a7IXbzPD (from Saturday) 2012-03-12
• RT @LibraryRenewal: “Librarians are the coolest people at SXSW.” – Monica Sack, Interactive ISA Coordinator http://t.co/rEOPHePv 2012-03-12
• Found on #Sciverse:A sensitivity analysis of researchers’ productivity rankings to the time of citation observation http://t.co/KGHh3xHT 2012-03-12
• Found on #Sciverse:A Hirsch-type index of co-author partnership ability http://t.co/BC438sDv 2012-03-12
• RT @rafaelsidi: RT @phylogenomics: The Evolution of Science: Open Publishing http://t.co/TPXUMQea 2012-03-11
• RT @dullhunk: “Human-brain peta-flops” A Citizen Science Approach for Improving Multiple Sequence Alignment http://t.co/P9qnFtiK via @PL … 2012-03-10

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.

• I’m attending sameAs: The Quiz, 2nd September 2011 in London http://t.co/Zx5LFJO via @lanyrd 2011-08-17
• Introducing: Layar Vision, and a $55,000 Creation Challenge! – Layar Blog http://t.co/byhKEZF 2011-08-17
• Monitoring PubMed retractions: a Heroku-hosted Sinatra application | What You’re Doing Is Rather Desperate http://t.co/IJf5Kum @neilfws 2011-08-15
• Analysis of retractions in PubMed | What You’re Doing Is Rather Desperate http://t.co/TfhBGn9 @neilfws 2011-08-15

• EContent article I was interviewed for: One Book, Many Covers: Meeting the Challenges of Multiplatform Publishing http://t.co/AYKjm29 #li #
• 1Night.me: Renting (text)books a day at a time. #launch http://t.co/2TgThH0 via @1nightMe #
• BMJ Group blogs: BMJ Web Development Blog » Blog Archive » Scopus citation links, topic collection.. http://bit.ly/j1Jd0x #
• Scopus Alerts for BlackBerry now available – http://bit.ly/kCqoRU (for subscribers) alongside existing iPhone and Android versions. #

• Recent Nature article I was interviewed for and quoted in: “Social media: Self-reflection”, online http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nj7340-667a #li #
• #scibarcamb #li (@ Cambridge Union Society) http://4sq.com/f1276N #