Comments on: Search Options for Research Papers http://biohacker.wordpress.com/2006/04/27/search-options-for-research-papers/ adventures of a physicist learning biochemistry Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:39:16 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Dmitri http://biohacker.wordpress.com/2006/04/27/search-options-for-research-papers/#comment-8 Dmitri Sun, 30 Apr 2006 02:59:50 +0000 https://biohacker.wordpress.com/?p=12#comment-8 Thanks for the links, Heidi! For the benefit of the readers who are not familiar with these sites, I should point out that these sites are not search engines for research publications, although both provide free access to science information. ScienceWorld is an on-line science encyclopedia. DOAJ is the Directory of Open Access Journals, which includes a basic search option for the participating journals. Thanks for the links, Heidi!

For the benefit of the readers who are not familiar with these sites, I should point out that these sites are not search engines for research publications, although both provide free access to science information. ScienceWorld is an on-line science encyclopedia. DOAJ is the Directory of Open Access Journals, which includes a basic search option for the participating journals.

]]> By: heidi http://biohacker.wordpress.com/2006/04/27/search-options-for-research-papers/#comment-7 heidi Sat, 29 Apr 2006 19:54:06 +0000 https://biohacker.wordpress.com/?p=12#comment-7 http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/ http://www.doaj.org/ These are pretty good sites http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/
http://www.doaj.org/

These are pretty good sites

]]> By: Dmitri http://biohacker.wordpress.com/2006/04/27/search-options-for-research-papers/#comment-6 Dmitri Fri, 28 Apr 2006 10:59:22 +0000 https://biohacker.wordpress.com/?p=12#comment-6 Thanks for the correction, Jeroen! I personally have been using Scirus for about five years, and Scopus only for the last two, so I always thought about Scopus as a more sophisticated (and hence not free) version of Scirus. I was not aware, however, of the substantial difference between the underlying databases that you mentioned, in part because for my searches on Surface Science topics, there was little apparent difference between the two. And on the refined search option from Scirus - I actually have asked Elsevier reps a year ago why it wasn't implemented in the same way for full Scopus searches, only to discover that they didn't know what I was talking about - these particular two reps didn't even know about Scirus! Thanks for the correction, Jeroen! I personally have been using Scirus for about five years, and Scopus only for the last two, so I always thought about Scopus as a more sophisticated (and hence not free) version of Scirus. I was not aware, however, of the substantial difference between the underlying databases that you mentioned, in part because for my searches on Surface Science topics, there was little apparent difference between the two.
And on the refined search option from Scirus – I actually have asked Elsevier reps a year ago why it wasn’t implemented in the same way for full Scopus searches, only to discover that they didn’t know what I was talking about – these particular two reps didn’t even know about Scirus!

]]> By: Jeroen Bosman http://biohacker.wordpress.com/2006/04/27/search-options-for-research-papers/#comment-5 Jeroen Bosman Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:50:45 +0000 https://biohacker.wordpress.com/?p=12#comment-5 Hi, nice reading. Just one point. Scirus is NOT the free version of Scopus. Scopus is the comprehensive A&I service for STM indexing some 16000 journals, partly back to 1996, partly back to 1965, with full citation analysis options. It includes almost completely the subject index Compendex, Geobase, Biobase and Embase. The free Scirus database, also made by Elsevier, only has journal information for Elsevier Journals and federates information from ArXiv, Pubmed and other free datbases. Scirus adds to that a search function for a selected slice of the free web: some 300 million general webpages in science. The Scopus database does have a tab to search the free web part of Scirus. Hi,

nice reading. Just one point. Scirus is NOT the free version of Scopus. Scopus is the comprehensive A&I service for STM indexing some 16000 journals, partly back to 1996, partly back to 1965, with full citation analysis options. It includes almost completely the subject index Compendex, Geobase, Biobase and Embase.
The free Scirus database, also made by Elsevier, only has journal information for Elsevier Journals and federates information from ArXiv, Pubmed and other free datbases. Scirus adds to that a search function for a selected slice of the free web: some 300 million general webpages in science.
The Scopus database does have a tab to search the free web part of Scirus.

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