Cowles Library Drake University

UPDATE: On February 12th, Cowles received this update from SCOPUS.

"At the end of January, we informed you about a situation with recently loaded Scopus records. A large number of articles from Elsevier journals were erroneously loaded into Scopus with incorrect publication year and incomplete source title information.

According to our initial estimate this situation should have been resolved by the end of last week, but despite our best efforts, not all erroneous records have been removed yet. We are confident that this will be finalised by February 20th at the latest.

On January 29th, 2008, Cowles Library received the following notice from SCOPUS:

"In the past two weeks, as a part of our initiative of loading pre-1996 articles to enrich Scopus content, a large number of articles from Elsevier journals were loaded erroneously into Scopus with incorrect publication year and incomplete source title information.

As a result of this, an incorrect publishing year of 2007 and 2008 has been assigned to these records and only limited source information is available, namely journal title and page numbers. Because of the incomplete information, the mechanism that is used to remove duplicate articles hasn't worked properly either. As a consequence, the records are incorrectly appearing in your search alerts as well.

A solution to resolve this issue is already in place and we expect the records with the incorrect information to be removed from Scopus by the end of next week.

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