Kristen Philipkoski, Turning Search into a Science, Wired News, April 8, 2004. The news article points out for scientists the benefits of searching Elsevier's Scirus, a scientific search engine, as opposed to Google. "Scirus is a search engine for scientists that allows them to dig through not just scientific journals, but also unpublished research, university websites, corporate Internet sites, conference agendas and minutes, discussion groups and mailing-list archives." The author goes further to mention that Scirus crawls "167 million" scientific web pages. The search engine is free, and while it searches some open access sources, many of the results are from subscription-based resources such as Elsevier journals. (My experience with Scirus was to find an excessive number of duplicate results...Maybe this has been improved...)
Posted by
Garrett at 4/08/2004 02:16:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
