Scirus

Scirus is a specialized portal on scientific information. It is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine available on the Internet, linking to more than 167 million indexed scientific pages and documents. With Scirus you can search through a variety of sources, such as Medline, ScienceDirect , BioMedCentral , preprint servers, patents and web sites relevant for your research.

Scirus offers both Basic and Advanced search options - with the Advanced search, you can be more specific with what you are looking - (selecting a subject area or content source for instance) before searching. The portal helps you save time and speed up research. Enhanced efficiency and advanced functionality help you search on specific bibliographical information or within specific sources. The refine terms help you quickly select terms that improve the precision of your query. All of this enables to:

- Pinpoint scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data on the Web.

- Find the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles, patents, pre prints and journals that other search engines miss.

- Offer unique functionalities designed for scientists and researchers.

The portal is used by scientists, researchers, students, technicians, librarians, consultants and teachers all over the world and has proved so successful at locating science-specific results on the Web that the Search Engine Watch Awards voted Scirus 'Best Specialty Search Engine' in 2001 and 2002 and 'Best Directory or Search Engine Website' WebAward from Web Marketing Association in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.

The best way to discover the advantages of Scirus is to try it yourself. Not only will you get fast scientific results from both Web and journal sources, you can download your own searchbox or submit your Web site to Scirus. You'll find it all at Scirus.

Bibliography:

http://www.scirus.com/

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/electronicproductdescription.authors/672920/description

http://scirus.landingzone.nl/other/

Article written by: María Cabanas

Created: 17/12/2009

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