Event

Wednesdays@Noon: Navigating the Scholarly Communication Landscape with Scopus Online

This Wednesdays@Noon webinar will introduce SCOPUS, a multi-disciplinary research database that can help researchers, students, and teaching faculty search for and navigate the research literature in a specific field or research topic.  

During this session, participants will:

  • The differences between various research formats, including peer-reviewed journals, conference papers, preprints, books, and standards
  • The key strengths and weaknesses of these formats, including why a researcher would choose to publish as one format versus another
  • How to perform basic document searches in Scopus
  • How to use Scopus to evaluate the impact of research articles
  • How to identify potential research collaborators using Scopus author profiles
  • How to identify high-impact journals and potential submission targets using the Scopus Sources list

Who should attend: Drexel Engineering students, STEM students and others interested in learning how to navigate Drexel Libraries' online resources & databases

Presented by: Jay Bhatt, Engineering Librarian

Recorded sessions: If you can’t attend a live webinar, don’t worry! We will provide a link to the webinar recording following the event.

Zoom Details: Please register using the form below to receive the Zoom login details for this session.


About Wednesdays@Noon

The Drexel University Libraries' (DUL) presents Wednesdays@Noon, a regularly scheduled series of 30-minute webinars that connect Drexel researchers, faculty, staff, and students with the Libraries’ expertise, tools, resources, and services.

Wednesdays@Noon brings together expert Libraries staff and members of the Drexel community for training sessions and discussions. These will include instructional sessions that guide effective use of the Libraries’ tools and systems, awareness sessions that promote DUL’s authoritative information resources and how to incorporate them in coursework and research, and practical sessions that share best practices to support Drexel Dragons in their work to create and shape future scholarship.

Wednesdays@Noon webinars are held at 12 p.m. on Wednesdays throughout the academic year. Sessions are open to all Drexel faculty, students and staff. Sessions will be recorded and posted on the Libraries’ YouTube page for anyone who cannot attend the live events.

Contact libraries@drexel.edu with questions or to suggest a future webinar topic.

Date:
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Time:
12:00pm - 12:30pm
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Online
Campus:
Online
Online:
This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
Registration has closed.

Event Organizer

Rachel Weidner