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Scirus: Searching the Scientific Web & the Benefits for the Scientific Community

Learn about Scirus, a search engine that focuses on scientific information on the web and proprietary databases, providing added value for researchers and students. Increase awareness and traffic to published articles and position Elsevier Science in the emerging search engine market. Downloadable Scirus search boxes available.

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Scirus: Searching the Scientific Web & the Benefits for the Scientific Community

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  1. Femke Markus Sr. Product Manager Scirus 18 October 2002, CERN, Geneva Searching the Scientific Web: Scirus & The added benefits for the scientific community

  2. Outline Presentation • Why Scirus • Scirus Value Chain • Added value for ES and scientific community

  3. Why Scirus How much of your time do you spend on Web - or proprietary database sources when searching for scientific information Web Sources 40% Database Sources 60% Market Research Elsevier Science (Nov 1999)

  4. Why Scirus Which of the following search resources do you use to search for work-related searches? Market Research Elsevier Science / Frank N. Magid Associates N = 464 (May 2002)

  5. Why Scirus How often, if ever, do you use an Internet search engine to obtain scientific information? Market Research Elsevier Science / Frank N. Magid Associates N = 464 (May 2002)

  6. Why Scirus • 80 % use Internet Search engines for ‘every’ assignment or ‘most assignments’ • 50% use Library Web portals / Class Website • 50% said that the information on the Web is not sufficient for their assignments • 65% said that the Internet does not offer a sufficiently wide range of resources Source: OCLC White Paper on the Information Habits of College Students (1,050 respondees)

  7. Why Scirus • “Four out of five students turn to mainstream search engines when they have to find information for a research project. These search engines usually miss the most useful resources in the invisible web, on which colleges spend so much money in licensing fees and on which scholars spend so much time in peer review.” • Source: CLIRinghouse, Feb. 2002.

  8. Why Scirus Develop a search engine that focuses on scientific Web information and also covers proprietary database information:

  9. About Scirus • A free web search engine for scientific information: covering both Web and proprietary information • Developed by Elsevier Science • In cooperation with FAST (alltheweb.com) • Launched in April 2001

  10. Scirus Value Chain Scientific Web content Proprietary Databases Web content Value Added Functionalities

  11. Content Coverage Scirus now covers > 120 million pages: • Scientific Web Sources: - 105 million freely accessible Web pages • Scientific Journal Database Sources: - 17 million article records

  12. Content Coverage Websources (105 million pages): • 40 million .edu • 14.5 million .com • 13 million .org • 5 million .ac.uk • 4 million .gov • 1.7 million.net • rest: others, like 0.6 million .nl

  13. Content Coverage Proprietary sources: • Beilstein: 650,000 million abstracts • BioMed Central: 820 full-text articles • IDEAL: 260,000 full-text articles • MEDLINE: 13 million citations • ScienceDirect: 1.7 million full-text articles • USPTO: 900,000 patents

  14. Content Coverage Harvested structured data sources : • E-print ArXiv: 180,000 preprints (Los Alamos) • Math Preprints: 566 • Chem Preprints: 563 • Cogprints: 1,400 • NASA: 10,310

  15. Scirus Data processing Web URLs Seedlist Crawling Indexing Classification Scirus Index Database load

  16. Scirus Value Chain Scientific Web content Proprietary Databases Web content Value Added Functionalities

  17. 1. Web / Journal selection

  18. 1. Web / Journal selection

  19. 2. Further refinement of source selection

  20. 3. Search by Information Types

  21. 5. ‘Intelligent query analysis’

  22. 6. Search within Subject Areas

  23. 7. Search by field

  24. 8. Sort by relevance / date

  25. 7. Refine your search

  26. 9. Save or Email results

  27. 10. Add Scirus to your Website

  28. Scirus gratis te integreren search box

  29. Scirus gratis te integreren search box

  30. Added value of Scirus for Elsevier Science and scientific community

  31. Benefits for Elsevier Science • Increase awareness of and traffic to our published articles • Position ES in the emerging search engine market • Increase ES knowledge on latest technological development • Added ‘search the scientific Web’ functionality to ES electronic platforms

  32. Benefits for the scientific community • Researchers & students often use search engines when looking for scientific information • Scirus goes places other search engines don’t go • Free product • Downloadable Scirus Search boxes • Your websites can be covered as well

  33. Ideas on Scirus content / functionalities or ways to communicate this to your institutes? Please contact us!f.markus@elsevier.com

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