Elsevier announced today that Scirus, its free science-specific search engine, has added the contents of PsyDok, the psychology-based repository, to its index through a partnership with Saarland University, Germany. As part of its Repository Search service, Scirus is also powering the discovery service on the PsyDok site. PsyDok, developed at Saarland University and State Library (SULB), collects and preserves psychology-related journal articles, post prints, prepublications, reports, and dissertations....
“Some of the features we value the most about Scirus are the combined metadata and full-text search capabilities which greatly enhances the discovery of the content available via the PsyDok site, and the possibility to search across other high quality repositories,” said Ulrich Herb, Electronic Publishing, Digital Repositories, SULB. “In addition, Scirus greatly enhances the visibility of the PsyDok content by making it available on Scirus.com, helping to disseminate German-language psychology-related information globally.”
The Scirus index already includes subject-based repositories such as CogPrints (cognitive sciences), RePEc (economics), Project Euclid (mathematics and statistics) and Organic Eprints (organic agriculture) and others, underlining its commitment to increasing the visibility of subject collections. Increasing its involvement with European partners, Scirus continues to be the premiere search engine specializing in indexing all scientifically-relevant information available on the Web.
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Peter Suber at 6/30/2006 01:35:00 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.
