ScienceDirect recently introduced a new article design and Scopus has a new, one-click graphical analysis of your search results.

ScienceDirect
A new online article format will provide easy navigation, new and valuable types of content, and topical and relevant context in a 3 pane format optimized for online reading.

The first enhancements have just been released and other changes are due in the second half of 2012. Read more

Scopus
Use the new Analyze results button to transform your search metrics into a tabbed organization of graphs and charts. Users can determine the growth of interest in an area, including overall document publication by year, source title activity, top authors and more. Data points on the graphs include contextual boxes with additional relevant information.

Scopus searching has been improved. Results now include both variations, where US/UK spelling and Greek letter spelling/symbol are involved. Using Advanced Search it is now possible to combine terms with OR when using the proximity operator so that you can specify the distance of the two terms for a much more targeted search. Read more

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