II Cycle of online Training of the Scopus database

The FECYT, together with Elsevier, has organized the II Online Training Cycle of the Scopus database that will take place throughout the second semester of 2025, with the aim of making known the updates, changes and novelties of this database, through several free sessions, in Spanish, and that will be held over the coming months.

The sessions offered for the month of October 2025 are:

• October 7 (from 10 to 12h): Scopus: basic and intermediate level
  o Create your user
  o Perform searches and analyze the results page and various metrics related to the articles
  o Evaluate the quality of journals using metrics such as CiteScore, SNIP and Scimago
  o Get to know the author and institution pages
  o Get to know the sources indexed in Scopus
   
• October 8 (from 10 to 11h): Scopus: advanced search
  o How Scopus search mechanisms work
  o What is a search query
  o How to use field codes, boolean operators, proximity operators, wildcard characters and others to optimize your searches
  o How to find close or exact words.
   
• October 9 (from 10 to 11 am): Workshop for authors: how Scopus collaborates in the author's day-to-day life
  o How to publish an article with Elsevier
  o How to find the most suitable journal with Scopus
  o How to find hot topics in Scopus
  o How to find authors to collaborate with Scopus

As usual, it is important to remember that these sessions are open and aimed at all students, researchers and users who are part of any Spanish R&D&I institution with a Scopus license.

Check all the sessions and formalize the prior registration through this link. The first time you log in, SABiDi will ask for validation with the university's credentials. From here, you can choose the session or sessions of your interest. Use the institutional mail of the URV when filling in the registration form. Once formalized, you will receive a confirmation email that must be saved because it contains the link to access the session on the day and time indicated. Check your spam folder if you haven't received it.

All users who take the courses and answer the 100% of all online questions that will be asked live during the session, will receive by email a satisfaction survey and, a few weeks later, the certificate of attendance.

Recorded sessions and training material from other Scopus and Web of Science courses can also be downloaded.