... [Deep Web Tech] has relaunched ScienceResearch.com. Originally released in 2005 as a search engine focused on providing access to publicly searchable journal literature, ScienceResearch.com now boasts a greatly expanded set of searchable collections and Deep Web Technologies' next-generation federated search engine. ...
ScienceResearch.com provides a single point of access to more than 400 high-quality, publicly searchable science and technology collections with a new, robust user interface specifically designed for advanced scientific research. "Featured collections" are included, which search major science search portals including Science.gov, WorldWideScience.org, and the E-Print Network. ScienceResearch.com also searches ScienceConferences, a portal providing access to some of the best conference proceedings, and Mednar.com. Each of these portals returns their best 200 search results to ScienceResearch.com. These results are aggregated with the results returned by individual sources.
ScienceResearch.com is divided into 15 categories, including Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Health and Medicine, and Physics. Categories have also been created for Science News and Patents. Users can search any number of categories, searching all collections within the categories selected, or choose specific collections within a category to narrow their search. ScienceResearch.com's categories are managed by volunteer moderators who help the ScienceResarch.com team select the best, most authoritative collections to include in each category. The company says it is seeking moderators for several categories. ...
The company also announced the availability of OpenSearch browser plug-ins for one-click searching of the major scientific information portals, including Scitopia.org, Science.gov, WorldWideScience.org, Mednar.com, Scienceresearch.com, and Scirus.com. Users can easily add any of these portals to their browser's search engine box ...
Last fall, librarian Roddy MacLeod of Heriot-Watt University in the U.K. posted to the library's blog a list of 9 recommended science search engines. "These will usually give much more focused search results than Google," he wrote. Significantly, five of the nine search engines chosen are sites built by Deep Web Technologies. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 6/16/2009 09:49:00 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.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
