Scirus

Scirus (http://www.scirus.com) is a free web search engine developed especially for scientists, researchers and students. It enables anyone searching for scientific information to pinpoint the information they need - including peer-reviewed articles, patent information, author home pages and university web sites - quickly and easily. 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.

Locating scientific information on the Web is easy with Scirus because it:

• targets scientific information only
  Scirus offers an advantage over other Web search engines because it only finds scientific content, so you don't have to wade through pages of irrelevant results to find the information you are looking for.
• covers over 480 million science-related pages
  Scirus reveals a wealth of scientific information from Web sources (e.g. university sites, author homepages, company homepages, open access journals), and databases (e.g. articles from 14 scientific publishers (including Elsevier's ScienceDirect and Nature Publishing Group), MEDLINE abstracts, the five largest patent offices (USPTO, JPO, EPO, WIPO/PCT and UKIPO), institutional and subject repositories (e.g. ArXiv, RePEc, NASA)), illuminating your research with unique sources of scientific content. A complete list of all sources covered by Scirus can be found on http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/aboutus.
• finds the most peer-reviewed articles
  By delving deep into major databases, Scirus finds more peer-reviewed articles than any other search engine, giving you greater access to key sources of information.
• offers unique features designed specially for scientists
  Scirus was specifically developed for researchers in scientific, technical and medical fields. As well as unrivalled content, Scirus has unique features and functionalities that make it easy for you to find the most relevant research information.
• Scirus has outperformed Google in Usability testing and won several Search Engine Watch Awards.

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.

SciTopics (Scirus Topic Pages)

SciTopics (http://www.scitopics.com) is a free expert-generated knowledge-sharing service for the scientific community. Developed to serve as an information and collaboration service for researchers, SciTopics offers authors a dynamic, quick, informal yet authoritative online publication platform and also serves as a channel to help editors find suitable authors and reviewers for their journals.

Selected authors are invited to write summaries on specific scientific, technical and medical topics for which they are considered to be experts. In addition, authors provide a list of references and relevant links to other websites for more information. Automatically generated links to the most recent and most cited articles from Scopus and links to relevant results on the Web and news results via Scirus are also included on the SciTopics Page. Researchers can register to become members in order to participate in discussions on any given topic and engage in active dialogue with their peers.

Scirus Topic Pages will be officially launched on January 15th 2009 under the new brand name SciTopics. The new URL will be http://www.scitopics.com.

Last update: 13 Jun 2013