Scitopia

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Scitopia (from Latin scientia "knowledge" and gr. Τόπος tópos "place", of which -topia as "ideal place") was a free meta search engine for the specialist databases of 15 leading US American, natural and engineering scientific societies. The website was launched on June 3, 2007 at the annual conference of the Special Libraries Association (SLA). The common database comprised more than 3 million peer-reviewed specialist articles, conference reports and patent information, and some of them went back to 1884. According to Barbara Lange from the IEEE, the aim of the project was not simply to create another search portal, but rather a platform on which frequently cited works can be found with great simplicity, unencumbered by the noise of the Internet . On October 17, 2007, the website ended its beta stage.

search

The search ran in real time (no cache ) and thus also provided the latest research results. Like the Internet portal of the Office for Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) Science.gov , it was operated by Deep Web Technologies . The search results were listed according to relevance with title, author and literature information. Once a title was selected, the user was taken directly to the provider's digital library .

Professional societies

The founding members included: Acoustical Society of America (ASA), American Geophysical Union (AGU), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Institute of Physics (AIP), American Physical Society (APS), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Vacuum Society , The Electrochemical Society (ECS), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP), International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) , Optical Society of America (OSA), Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Special Libraries Association
  2. ↑ Scientific Societies Create Federated Search Database ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Library Journal, April 17, 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.libraryjournal.com
  3. ↑ SCITOPIA.ORG REFINES SEARCH WITH USER FEEDBACK , The Charleston Advisor, October 2007
  4. ↑ www.science.gov
  5. ↑ www.deepwebtech.com
  6. ↑ Deep Web Technologies Federated Search to Power scitopia.org Making it Easier to Find High-Quality Sci-Tech Content , Forbes, April 26, 2007

See also

vascoda , Google Scholar , Deep Web

Web links