Scirus
Scirus was an English-language science search engine from Elsevier- Verlag (Amsterdam) for mainly scientific, technical and medical publications and existed from April 1, 2001 to the beginning of 2014. The database that could be searched by Scirus ultimately comprised around 400 million scientific documents and websites in full text . Also references were collected so that Scirus same time a citation was. The abstracts of the publications found were usually free of charge, but many full texts were subject to a charge. Websites from specialized scientific service providers ( ScienceDirect , Medline , BioMed Central , US Patent Office ) and universities were among the most visited pages of Scirus. The search engine worked with FAST technology .
Scirus was named after an ancient Greek seer from Dodona .
Scirus was discontinued in early 2014.
literature
- ML Doldi: Analysis of changes in the search results of a subject-specific research with the search engines Google and Scirus , in Medicine - Library - Information 2005; 5 (3): 38-44 ( PDF )
- Kristen Philipkoski, Turning Search Into a Science , Wired , April 8, 2004, online text
- Scirus indexes patent data of 13 million patents , Asia's Newspaper on Electronic Information Product & Service, June 2005, No. 53 ISSN 0217-5673 , online text
- Scirus , Péter's Digital Reference Shelf, Gale Reference Reviews
- Canan Hastik, Alexander Schuster, Aleksander Knauerhase: Scientific search engines: Usability evaluation and consideration of the search behavior of potential users (PDF; 879 kB) , In: Information Wissenschaft und Praxis, Vol. 60, Issue 2, 2009, pp. 61–74