Create Automatic Queries in Scopus from Your Library website

Help your students and researchers to stay up-to-date in their fields of interest by creating simple or advanced search queries on your library or departmental websites.

Scopus inward searching syntax:

http://www.scopus.com/scopus/search/submit/xadvanced.url?searchfield= CODE OF THE SEARCH FIELD (search term A Boolean Operator search term B)

Examples:

• http://www.scopus.com/scopus/search/submit/xadvanced.url?searchfield=TITLE-ABS-KEY(myb and retrovirus)

• http://www.scopus.com/scopus/search/submit/xadvanced.url?searchfield=TITLE-ABS-KEY(Acromegaly and "growth hormone")

Search syntax rules:

• Complete list of all codes that can be used

• Between the () it is possible to use wildcards * and double quotes "" like in Scopus

• To limit to a specific time range: http://www.scopus.com/scopus/search/submit/xadvanced.url?searchfield=TITLE-ABS-KEY(Software or Engineering) AND PUBYEAR AFT 1995

• To search several fields in the same request: http://www.scopus.com/scopus/search/submit/xadvanced.url?searchfield=TITLE-ABS-KEY(Software Engineering) AND AUTHOR-NAME (smith)