This tutorial shows you the personalized features available to registered users in Scopus.
When you register in Scopus, you can:
To access your previously created Alerts, click the My Alerts button.
Let's create some Alerts.
You can create a Search Alert from your search results page.
If you would like the search to run periodically and notify you of any new results, click the Save as Alert link.
You can modify the properties of your Search Alert. Click the Submit button to save the Alert.
Now, let's look at Citation Alerts.
If you would like to be notified when another article cities a document, you can set up a Citation Alert.
Click the E-mail Alert link.
Complete the properties information and click the Submit button.
Now, let's go back to the Alerts page and see the Alert maintenance functions available.
Here, all of your Alerts are listed with links for reviewing, modifying, or deleting each Alert.
You can review the latest results of the Alert.
You can modify your e-mail address and the properties information of your Search Alerts and your Citation Alerts from the Alerts page.
Changing the e-mail address in your personal registration profile does not change the e-mail address you have associated with your Search Alerts or Citation Alerts.
You can delete your Alerts from the Alerts page.
You can set up an RSS feed and receive a periodic update to your RSS reader when articles become available which meet the criteria of your Alert.
Click the Add ... Alert links and perform another search to be saved as a Search Alert or browse the publications for a document to be saved as a Citation Alert.
To access your document list from your current Scopus session, click the My List button.
This list is temporary and will be deleted at the end of your session.
To keep this list for another session, click the Save this list link.
Saved lists can be accessed from your My Profile page.
To access more personal account features, click the My Profile button.
Links to the available personalized features are listed.
You can save searches from your Search History table or from your search results.
To access a list of your saved searches, click the Saved Searches link.
Several features are available on the Saved Searches page.
You can combine saved search requests to create a new search request.
You can re-run the search request and retrieve all the results, including those documents which were published after the last run of the search request.
You can re-run the search request and retrieve only the new documents which were published after the last run of the search request.
You can access the search request as originally entered in the search form and edit the search request.
You can set up an email Alert for a particular search request.
You can request an RSS feed for a particular search request.
Let's go back to the My Profile page.
To access your current Alerts, click the My Alerts link.
To access your saved document lists, click the My Saved Lists link.
To review the documents in a list, click the View List link.
Let's go back to the My Profiles page.
To access your lists of grouped authors, click the My Authors link.
From here you can quickly access an author's details page.
To edit an author list, click the Edit link.
Let's go back to the My Profiles page.
To make changes to your profile information or personal user preferences, click the Personal Profile & Scopus Settings link.
You can update your profile or change the personal user preferences you have selected.
Let's go back to the My Profile page and look at another feature available.
If you have a subscription to the reference manager, RefWorks, you can maintain your RefWorks information here. This will expedite your RefWorks login when you want to export citations to RefWorks.
To change your personal login password, click the Change Password link.
For more information about the personalized features in Scopus, go to the Scopus online Help and select a related topic from the Help Table of Contents.
You have reached the end of the Using the Personalized Features tutorial.
You may now do one of the following: