Elsevier’s Resources are Widely Used

01.06.2023

Elsevier's multidisciplinary science journals and books are widely used by students and staff at the University of Turku. A review of Elsevier's database usage figures shows the three most used Elsevier journals and books and usage of the abstract and citation database Scopus at the University of Turku.

ScienceDirect

Elsevier’s ScienceDirect Freedom Collection is an extensive multidisciplinary scientific journal collection. It is one of the leading sources especially for scientific, technical and medical research. University of Turku staff and students have access to the journals included in the database since the year 1995. The library has also acquired books to be read on the same platform. In addition to the purchased resources, there are also open access journals and books.  

In 2022 the use of the ScienceDirect database in University of Turku centred specifically on medicine and science but social sciences and economics were well represented, too.  

Usage of ScienceDirect by subject area in University of Turku in 2022: Medicine and Dentistry 17,2 %; Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 9,5 %; Social Sciences 8,3 %; Psychology 6,1 %; Business, Management and Accounting 6,1 %; Neuroscience 6,0 %; Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5,3 %; Environmental Science 4,2 %; Others 37,4 %

Usage of ScienceDirect by subject area in University of Turku in 2022
 

The three most read journals in 2022 were 

In 2022 the most interesting books for the library customers were

Scopus 

Scopus is Elsevier’s abstract and citation database launched in 2004. The database covers around 35 000 peer reviewed journal titles from thousands of publishers. In Scopus the searches concentrated in University of Turku in 2022 partly on the same disciplines as the usage in ScienceDirect but in slightly different order. 

Usage of Scopus by subject area in University of Turku in 2022: Social Sciences 37 %; Physical Sicences 31,2 %; Health Sciences 19,7 %; Life Sciences 11,6 %; Multidisciplinary 0,5 %

Usage of Scopus by subject area in University of Turku in 2022
 

Nearly 75 % of the searches focused on documents. Almost every fifth search was about authors. Other ways of searching were used notably less.

Types of searches used in Scopus in University of Turku in 2022: Document searches 74,0 %; Author searches 17,8 %; Advanced searches 8,1 %; Other 0,1 %

Types of searches used in Scopus in University of Turku in 2022
 

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Created 01.06.2023 | Updated 29.06.2023