Which data sources are available in Elements?
This article provides a description about data sources in Elements. More details about configuring these sources are available in the Data source configuration article.
Altmetric
Altmetric collects article level metrics and the online conversations around research on behalf of publishers, institutions and funders, combining a selection of online indicators (both scholarly and non-scholarly) to give a measurement of digital impact and reach. Altmetric do this by tracking, collecting and measuring large amounts of data collected from all of the places where scientists, patient advocates, journalists, nurses, engineers and members of the public talk about science online: for example, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, message boards and mainstream newspapers and magazines. Altmetric allows authors, institutions and publishers to see what people are saying about a scholarly paper and can tell them how much attention a paper is receiving relative to their peers.
The Altmetric data source cannot be configured or searched directly, but Altmetric Badges indicating the Altmetric Score and attention source are displayed on publication list pages within Elements.
arXiv
Searchable Bibliographic Data Source.
Started in August 1991, arXiv.org (formerly xxx.lanl.gov) is a highly-automated electronic archive and distribution server for (preprint) research articles. Covered areas include physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology and statistics. arXiv is maintained and operated by the Cornell University Library with guidance from the arXiv Scientific Advisory Board and the arXiv Sustainability Advisory Group, and with the help of numerous subject moderators.
CiNii EN/CiNii JP
Searchable Bibliographic Data Source.
CiNii (Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator, pronounced like "sigh-knee") is a database service which can be searched with academic information of articles, books & journals. "CiNii Articles" enables you to search information on academic articles published in academic society journals, university research bulletins or articles included in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index Database.
"CiNii Books" enables you to search information of books and journals held by university libraries in Japan.
CrossRef
Supplementary Search.
CrossRef is an association of scholarly publishers that develops shared infrastructure to support more effective scholarly communications. The CrossRef citation-linking network today covers over 100 million journal articles and other content items (books chapters, data, theses, technical reports) from thousands of scholarly and professional publishers around the globe. CrossRef is a DOI Registration Agency and is committed to long-term sustainability.
DBLP
Searchable Bibliographic Data Source.
DBLP is a computer science bibliography website hosted at the Universit of Trier, Germany. It was originally a database and logic programming bibliography site, and has existed at least since the 1980s. DBLP listed more than 4.4 million publications on computer science in 2019. All important journals on computer science are tracked. Proceedings papers of many conferences are also tracked. DBLP originally stood for DataBase systems and Logic Programming, the new title is now, "The DBLP Computer Science Bibliography"
Dimensions
Searchable Bibliographic and Grants Data Source.
Having worked closely with the research community to build it, Dimensions was launched by Digital Science in 2017 as a database that offers the most comprehensive collection of linked data in a single platform - from grants, publications, datasets and clinical trials to patents and policy documents. Because Dimensions maps the entire research lifecycle, research organisations can follow research from funding through output to impact. Publication data in Dimensions for more than 120 million records (including preprints) is harvested mainly from Crossref, PubMed, Europe PubMed Central and arXiv as well as from publishers directly. Dimensions is also the largest grants database available, with grants from more than 600 funders, many of them linked to publications. If you are eligible to use the Dimensions data source, Elements can harvest publications (v5.14+) and/or grants (v5.15) from it. As of v6.1, preprints are also retrieved.
Dimensions for Universities [pre-v5.14/LEGACY]
Supplementary Search.
Dimensions for Universities (DfU) is the predecessor of Dimensions and can be used to supplement publications and grants data harvested from other sources, for a fuller, more connected picture of the relationships between funding, researchers and publications. The data source is not actively maintained anymore and has been removed from the configurable data sources in v6.2.
Europe PubMed Central
Europe PMC is a service of the Europe PMC Funders' Group, in partnership with the European Bioinformatics Institute; and in cooperation with the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NCBI/NLM). It includes content provided to the PMC International archive by participating publishers.
Europe PMC offers free access to biomedical literature resources including:
Abstracts from PubMed, Agricola and other sources (about 39.5 million)
Europe PMC full text articles (about 7.3 million, of which over 3.9 million are Open Access)
Books and documents (more than 138,000)
Preprints (365,000)
Supplemented with Chinese Biological Abstracts
Records from Europe PMC are sourced in two ways: PubMed records are supplemented with an Europe PMC record if a PubMed record is present, and harvested records via identifiers sourced from ORCiD.
figshare
Searchable Bibliographic Dataset Source.
figshare is a repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner.
figshare allows users to upload any file format to be made visualisable in the browser so that figures, datasets, media, papers, posters, presentations and file sets can be disseminated in a way that the current scholarly publishing model does not allow.
Requires figshare user account.
Google Books
When manually adding a book or a chapter, Google Books can be searched by entering the title or ISBN to retrieve some basic metadata.
GRID
Supplementary search.
GRID stands for Global Research Identifier Database and was built by the Digital Science team. It is used extensively across our portfolio companies and many other organisations for disambiguating research-related organisations based on affiliation matching. Clients who are eligible to use Dimensions as a data source may also configure GRID to automatically resolve affiliation strings retrieved from Dimensions, Scopus and other data sources, which allows for reporting on external collaborations, for example.
MLA
https://www.mla.org/Publications/MLA-International-Bibliography
Searchable Bibliographic Dataset Source.
The MLA International Bibliography is an essential tool for research in all aspects of modern languages and literature. Available as a searchable online database of more than 2.8 million records and constantly updated by scholars in the field, the bibliography is used by academics and teachers around the world to find and share their work. Students at all levels rely on the bibliography to lead them to the journals, books, Web sites, and other publications they need to succeed in their research projects.
Institutional subscription required.
Offline Search
Offline Search is a background process that looks for new links between users and publications already harvested by Elements. It does not harvest new publications but may discover new links between publications and users that were not found when the publications were initially harvested.
PubMed
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Searchable Bibliographic Data Source.
PubMed comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
RePEc
Searchable Bibliographic Data Source.
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 102 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in Economics and related sciences. The heart of the project is a decentralized bibliographic database of working papers, journal articles, books, books chapters and software components, all maintained by volunteers. The collected data is then used in various services as described below.
So far, over 2,000 archives from 102 countries have contributed about 3 million research pieces from 3,500 journals and 5,000 working paper series. Over 57,000 authors have registered and 75,000 email subscriptions are served every week.
Scopus
Searchable Bibliographic Data Source.
Scopus was launched by Elsevier in November 2004 as a source-neutral abstract and citation database curated by independent subject matter experts. It currently contains 77.8 million records within 25,100 titles from more than 5,000 publishers.
Institutional Subscription Required
SSRN
Searchable Bibliographic Data Source.
Part of Elsevier since 2016, the Social Science Research Network is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks, each of which encourages the early distribution of research results via preprints. The SSRN eLibrary consists of an Abstract Database containing over 950,000 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers.
Web of Science
https://www.webofknowledge.com/
Searchable Bibliographic Data Source.
Guided by the legacy of Dr Eugene Garfield, inventor of the world’s first citation index, Clarivate's (formerly Thomson Reuters) Web of Science is the most comprehensive bibliographic database, containing more than 161 million records across 254 subject areas and spanning over a period of 115 years of research.
Access via institutional subscription – two levels of access: standard access with Web of Knowledge Subscription; premium access with InCites subscription. Please contact your Clarivate representative to find out more.
Institutional Subscription Required at the Premium level
Web of Science (Lite)
https://www.webofknowledge.com/
Searchable Bibliographic Data Source.
Guided by the legacy of Dr Eugene Garfield, inventor of the world’s first citation index, Clarivate's (formerly Thomson Reuters) Web of Science is the most comprehensive bibliographic database, containing more than 161 million records across 254 subject areas and spanning over a period of 115 years of research.
Access via institutional subscription – two levels of access: standard access with Web of Knowledge Subscription; premium access with InCites subscription. Please contact your Clarivate representative to find out more.
Institutional Subscription Required at the minimum level
SHERPA/RoMEO
https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
Copyright policy and Information integration.
Sherpa Romeo is an online resource provided by the Open Access team at Jisc that aggregates and presents publisher and journal open access policies from around the world. Every registered publisher or journal held in Romeo is carefully reviewed and analysed by a specialist team who provide summaries of self-archiving permissions and conditions of rights given to authors on a journal-by-journal basis where possible.