Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. It's designed to find the information scientists need. Quick, easy and comprehensive, Scopus provides superior support of the literature research process. Updated daily, Scopus offers.

• Over 16,500 peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000 publishers, including coverage of
  • 15,400 peer-reviewed journals (inc > 1200 Open Access journals)
  • 575 trade publications
  • 315 book series
  • Extensive conference coverage (3,6 million conference papers)
• 37 million records, of which
  • 18 million records include references going back to 1996 (75% include references)
  • 19 million pre-1996 records go back as far as 1823
• Results from 433 million scientific web pages
• 23 million patent records from 5 patent offices
• "Articles-in-Press" from over 3,000 journals
• Seamless links to full-text articles and other library resources
• Innovative tools that give an at-a-glance overview of search results and refine them to the most relevant hits
• Alerts to keep you up-to-date on new articles matching your search query, or by favorite author

Scopus is the easiest way to get to relevant content fast. Tools to sort, refine and quickly identify results help you focus on the outcome of your work. You can spend less time mastering databases and more time on research.