Dear Moderator, Can you please post the following message on the LIS-SERVE Dr. E. Rama Reddy Dear Professional Colleagues, There is good news for scholars. Professionals in India can look at alternative powerful Abstracting, Indexing and Citation Database (SCOPUS) at last. Scopus also includes over 170 highly selected Indian Journals in it and brings visibility to the Indian Journals to the International Scholars. Please see the following observation. In the Charleston Advisor - the latest in a line of comparative reviews by Louise Deis and David Goodman - Scopus is finally awarded full parity with Web of Science. Dismissing previous objections based on apparent "content gaps" in Scopus, Deis and Goodman conclude: "The truly important difference is...that Scopus offers a wider selection of journals and intelligent interface, while WoS offers a much longer selection of years". The full article can be gotten from Update on Scopus and Web of Science (December 2006) Even more striking are the findings of Michael Norris and Charles Oppenheim in the Journal of Infometrics. Reviewing "alternatives to WoS" in the key area of social sciences, the authors state clearly: "Scopus offers the best coverage from amongst these databases and could be used as an alternative to Web of Science as a tool to evaluate the research impact in the social sciences." http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2006.12.001 For more information Please contact: p.kumar@elsevier.com Dr. E. Rama Reddy University Librarian (Retd) University of Hyderabad enukondar@gmail.com enukondar@yahoo.co.in --------------------------------- Heres a new way to find what you're looking for - Yahoo! Answers