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ECE297: Communication and Design - Written Document 1: Graphics Proposal

Searching Scopus

Scopus is a large, multidisciplinary database that contains citations to articles on a wide variety of topics. 

Access Scopus using the link above. 

1. Type your search terms into the search box. We will try geographic information system*.  We include the * so that we get system, systems, systematic, etc. - all possible endings, without having to type them in separately. 

 

image of Scopus interface

 

 

We get 97, 524 search results.

 

2.  If we try it again, but put the search terms in quotation marks: 

We get 80,289 search results.

scopus GIS example 4