Create Automatic Queries in Scopus from Your Library website

• Here's a quick tip from the Scopus Info site that can help your students and researchers stay up-to-date in their fields of interest.
  
  Create simple and/or advanced search queries on your library or departmental websites.
  
  Use the 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")
  
  
  Quick notes regarding syntax:
  
• Click here for a complete list of codes
• 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)
  
  Looking for more Scopus desktop tools to make literature research quicker and easier? Visit the 'Scopus tools' page on the Scopus Info site.