An alliance of twelve major US government science agencies launched Science.gov version 2.0 on May 11, and followed up yesterday with a press release explaining the enhancements. Science.gov searches 30 government databases and 1,700 web sites, or a total of about 47 million pages. The portal and search engine are OA, and as far as I can tell all the content to which they point is also OA. The major innovation of v 2.0 is relevancy-ranked search results. For more detail (e.g. a video of the launch ceremony, a search tutorial, links to news stories) see the Science.gov communications page.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/21/2004 11:11:00 AM.
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.
