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Why the Student Ambassador Program (SAmP)?

As a new Scopus customer, we would like to assist you in promoting awareness of this new resource that you’ve decided to invest in to your users at your institute. It’s as simple as that!

From speaking to librarians at many institutes it has become clear to us that outreach to students, faculty and researchers is something you would all like to do more of …but rarely have the time. This is where the student program comes in: Elsevier will sponsor two or three students to work with you for a semester (or two) to promote awareness of the library resources and services you offer – including Scopus.

Possible activities include:

• Setting up meetings with faculty, researchers and students to introduce Scopus and other library resources, as directed.
• Organizing small informal events on campus to generate awareness of library resources such as "Get the Scoop on Scopus days" where refreshments are served and users are encouraged to find out more about Scopus and other library resources.
• Arranging advertising, where possible, in student and faculty newspapers/ newsletters.
• Distributing promotional materials (user guides, pens etc) on campus on a regular basis.
• Eliciting feedback from users which can provide input for further product development.
• Assisting university librarians with other library activities, as directed.

• Assist with student recruitment, interviewing and selection and
• Student activities planning (at start of program)

From our experience at other institutes that have participated in the Student Program, it is suggested that the Student Ambassador be partnered with a ‘librarian mentor’ who can help guide the student in terms of library practices & policies and also provide more information about other library resources and services, if necessary.

“SAmP is a brand new approach we have not taken before and I feel it’s a proactive and innovative way to reach out to our end users.”

- Tsui Whui-chun, Librarian, National Taipei University of Technology (Taiwan)

Marion Wilson

“When we heard about SAmP we were very keen. It seemed a good way to provide an additional awareness-raising resource to the faculties to encourage their use of Scopus. Given our investment in Scopus we really want to maximize awareness and usage. The SAm Program supports those goals.”

- Marion Wilson, Senior Manager for Planning and Development, University of Newcastle (Australia)
 

“Our outreach put us in touch with many departments, faculties and students. So besides improving our research skills, through our efforts to help connect researchers with Scopus we improved our communication skills too. We realize this opportunity benefited our librarian and university, but we think most of all this opportunity benefited us!”

- Aldara Pan and Beatriz Soto, Student Ambassadors, University of Vigo (Spain)

“I got to know many researchers and fellow students through SAmP. It was a good chance to improve my public speaking skills. It also improved my research skills and this helps in furthering my studies.”

– Ling Yu Lang, Student Ambassador, Universiti Sains Malaysia (Malaysia)

"In the process of promoting Scopus, I've had so many new experiences. For an example, I did a demo in front of an audience of over one hundred. I got to know more professors and spoke to them about the skills of literature research. The experience has been fun and the things I have learnt are invaluable memories and skills that will benefit me in my future."

– Degao  Wang, Student Ambassador, Dalian Universitry of Technology (China)

“I started by emailing friends and faculty but found this had little impact. So, I decided to adopt a “knock and talk” approach. This involves visiting faculty in their offices to talk to them for 5 minutes about Scopus. The approach seems to be much more effective and, providing they are not in meetings or busy, faculty don’t seem to mind. I think this is the only way to really effectively reach them. I’ve also posted advertisements in the office of the Postgraduate Student Association and every week I run one or two demos for postgraduate students. I ask my fellow postgraduate research students, who are running their own tutorials, to give me 10 minutes to talk to their students before the tutorials. They are happy for me to do this.”

- Ahmad Khasawneh, Former Student Ambassador, University of Newcastle (Australia)

“I got a chance to collaborate with the librarian to run the ‘Database of the Month’ programme where I have been given some time slots for the demo events in the library.”

– Ling Yu Lang, Student Ambassador, Universiti Sains Malaysia (Malaysia)

"The major tasks are to plan the meeting sessions with academic staff (faculty and staff), librarians, researcher, and graduate students on campus."

- Peerapong Wongupparaj, Mahidol University (Salaya Campus) (Thailand)

“I think the Student Ambassador plays a role as coordinator between students and librarian where more activities can be run in various faculties and the librarian can understand the need of end-user better.”

– Ling Yu Lang, Student Ambassador, Universiti Sains Malaysia (Malaysia)
 

Significant difference in Usage

Elsevier did a study on the impact of SAmP on each account's number of users. It was noted that the number of users were significantly more in accounts that had SAmP. Below is a graph that shows a comparison of the average number of users in SAmP accounts and Non-SAmP accounts.

Interested?

If you are interested to embark on this exciting program with us, please contact your Elsevier Account Development Manager or Account Manager. We will be most pleased to work with you on the Student Ambassador Program.

Account Development Managers

Southeast Asia and Hong Kong (Janice Chia)
Australia and New Zealand (Mei Ling, Tang)
Taiwan (Jack Huang)
Korea (Julie Choi)
Japan (Shoji Takahashi)
China (Vicky Li)
India (Padma Muralidharan)