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This article features the Scopus abstracting and indexing (A&I) project of Elsevier, the scientific, technical, and health limb of the Reed Elsevier. This A&I project has 4,000 STM sources from 4,000 publishers and offers cross-discipline access to more than 27 million abstracts and citations, stretching back to 1966, and includes cited references from 1996 onwards. Harriet Bell, senior marketing manager for Scopus, said the A&I project was started on a hunch that there was gap that Elsevier could fill by providing one interface that would allow researchers to browse, search and navigate all science literature and all of the related information on the Web. For this project, Elsevier worked with 21 libraries in the U.S., Great Britain, Japan and Australia and selected the University of Toronto in Ontario as its development partner. Aside from being user-friendly, Scopus employs a link resolver that shows within search results which documents has the user full access to--before they click. Librarians can upload their subscription list into the system as well as add links to show which results patrons can order from a document delivery service or obtain in a paper copy. Scopus also allows researchers to set up alerts that will notify them when a new article of interest comes out.