Hi Jane
Dean Guistini from UBC Biomedical Branch Library, Vancouver Hospital has a useful section on HLWiki comparing Scopus and Web of Science. http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/Web_of_Science_vs._Scopus Because each indexes unique journals, you should search both if you have access to them (though this depends on what your topic is as Jim points out). However, these databases are primarily used for bibliometrics and citation tracking and so have different search interfaces compared to databases like PubMed Medline. Scopus uses multiple thesauri http://www.jisc-adat.com/adat/adat_db_details.pl?ns_ADAT:DB=Scopus. Web of Science is different in that they use extensive authority files and keyword tagging. I am not sure about the thesaurus - I think it is in-house. http://www.jisc-adat.com/adat/adat_db_details.pl?ns_ADAT:DB=Web%20of%20Science
Regards
Catherine Voutier
Clinical Librarian
Melbourne Health
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