Authorized users from Scopus subscribing institutions will not automatically be granted text and data mining rights on Scopus unless the institution is located in one of the Schengen (only EU) and UK countries.
If your institution is outside these locations and you are interested in Text and Data Mining for your individual academic research, please reach out to Elsevier Data Support.
If you are acting on behalf of an individual researcher, please reach out to your account contact.
Elsevier allows access to the Scopus APIs in support of academic research for researchers affiliated with a Scopus subscribing institution.
Detailed policy:
Definition: The end product is a scholarly published work that utilizes publications in Scopus for a research effort. The researcher wants to publish a scholarly work regarding Scopus data relationships.
Examples:
Analysis of abstract cited-by counts across a specific, singular academic discipline.
Relationship between authors' geographic locations and their academic affiliations.
Analysis of the relationship of citing works from a limited set of publications.
We allow this use case under the following conditions:
Research is for non-commercial, academic purposes only - no commercial, government or funding body access is permitted.
Research is to be performed by approved representative of the applying institution - no 3rd party or consultant access is permitted.
Research is limited in scope to a specific discipline - no mining of the entire Scopus dataset is permitted.
Retention of original research dataset is limited to archival purposes and reproduction of the research results. Data use outside of the scope of the original research is not permitted.
Public sharing of data for purpose of reproducibility with a specific party is permissible upon written request and explicit written approval.
