Scopus

Scopus, officially named SciVerse Scopus, is a bibliographic database containing abstracts and citations for academic journal articles.
It covers nearly 20,500 titles from over 5,000 international publishers, of which 19,500 are peer-reviewed journals, books series, and conference proceedings that feature scientific, medical, technical and social science topics.

Scopus does not use a controlled vocabulary, like MeSH to search. This database also contains over 23 million patent records and Scrius a
scientific web page search. Scopus provides users the option to access article reference citations and to perform cited reference searching.

It is owned by Elsevier and is available online by subscription.
Searches in Scopus incorporate searches of scientific web pages through Scirus, another Elsevier product, as well as patent databases.

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