Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has announced that it will index content in Scopus, an abstract and citation database from Elsevier, and expose its widely-used citation counts in the Summon discovery service. Serials Solutions' pioneering approach to displaying citation counts in Summon search results – along with pop-ups including links to citing articles within the discovery environment – enables users to interact with this valuable information without interrupting the research workflow.
Serials Solutions' 'match and merge' technology brings together information from multiple sources to create a single record optimized for discovery. The inclusion of Scopus content in the Summon unified index – and the advanced capability of 'match and merge' – will aid in the discovery of full text content from other providers, as well as valuable Scopus citation-only results. Also, using Scopus cited-by counts as a factor in Summon relevancy ranking will ensure users surface the most scholarly and relevant content in their results.
Scopus claims to be the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, with smart tools that track, analyse and visualise research. Containing more than 47 million records and 19,500 titles from 5,000 international publishers, Scopus offers scholars a comprehensive resource to support their research needs in the scientific, technical, medical, and social sciences fields, as well as in the arts and humanities.
