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Scirus is a science-specific search engine on the Internet. Scirus searches over 167 million science-specific Web pages, enabling you to:
- find scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data on the web.
- find reports, peer-reviewed articles and journals that other search engines miss
- use unique search functionality designed for scientists and researchers.
Information sources for Scirus include the following:
- Scitation, the online hosting service of the American Institute of Physics
- BioMed Central, an independent online publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to the peer-reviewed biological and medical research it publishes.
- PubMed
- SIAM (the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
- arXiv.org e-prints, a fully automated electronic archive and distribution server for research papers
- NASA
- US Patent Office
- Lexis Nexis
The advanced search interface allows users to select which content sources to search. File formats and information types can also be selected.
Range covered in Scirus:
- 58.5 million .edu sites
- 18 million .org sites
- 6.8 million .ac.uk sites
- 18.6 million .com sites
- 5 million .gov sites
- Over 45 million other relevant STM and University sites from around the world
In addition to Web pages, Scirus indexes the following special sources:
Scirus has proved so successful at locating science-specific results on the Web that the Search Engine Watch Awards voted Scirus 'Best Specialty Search Engine' in 2001 and 2002. So the next time you need to conduct science research on the Web, rather than using Google, think Scirus. "If you're looking for scientific information on the Web, Google might not be the best choice. Many researchers instead turn to Scirus." (Wired News article from April 4, 2004.)
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