Search health databases

Learn how to use the major health databases to find the best available evidence for your research

Introduction to Scopus
Further Scopus help

Scopus is a large, multidisciplinary database that indexes peer-reviewed journal articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and trade publications. If you've never used Scopus before try out this interactive activity.

Scopus videos

Scopus Searching Made Easy
How to search Scopus without getting a headache (3:02 mins).
Scopus Citation Searching - from one article to many
This video shows you how to use a single reference to find hundreds of articles using citation searching in Scopus (5:51 mins).
Scopus - selecting and saving references
This video shows you how to select and save references from your Scopus search results list (6:20 mins).

Additional resources

Scopus Basics
Scopus Citation Searching
Citation searching is also known as 'snowballing' or 'pearling'. Use one article to find other similar ones.
How to turn off smart (curly) quotes in Word
Pasting search strategies from Word into Scopus will cause problems if your Word document uses curly quotation marks. Follow these instructions to turn off curly quotes.