The article is a short overview of news and development of the tools and databases produced by Thomson Reuters. It introduces a new analytical tool for journals JADE and informs about enhancements in the Web of Science in Journal Citation Reports as an establishing of five-year Impact Factor or a new metric Eigenfactor. The article summarizes the analytical tools and its reports for the research assessment and mentions two new portals ResearchersID and InCites.

Introduction of new abstracts and citation database Scopus, product of Elsevier, aroused understandable interest for many reasons, particularly because it was announced as the largest such information resources covering over 15,000 peer-reviewed titles. To get some preliminary insight in this new tool a couple of practical trial searches and analysis of results have been carried out. Some marketing information could be cleared up and explained and tentative conclusion about searching strategy could be formulated on the basis of trial searches. It could be concluded that Scopus is undoubtedly very powerful research tool but it is still in a stage of development and its position on the market will depend on many factors.