Scirus.com gets a major refresh.

The latest Scirus development marks a major refresh of the award-winning scientific search engine’s user interface. The Scirus development team worked closely with Elsevier’s User Centered Design Group in creating the new user interface design.

The clean, refreshed interface will enable you to find the precise scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data you need more quickly and easily than ever before.

One of the main aims behind the redesign was to take powerful but less frequently-used features from the Scirus Advanced Search page and make them more simply and immediately accessible as post-search refinement options. This change will give you the power of Advanced Search without the complexity, with a single click.

Features of the redesign include:

• Visibility: More search results are immediately visible ‘above the fold’, by improving the use of screen real estate
• Intuitiveness: Highly-appreciated features are moved to areas of the screen most suitable for the human eye, following accepted HCI guidelines
• Exposure: The full range of Scirus’ content sources is further exposed and highlighted through the use of new navigator functionality
• Ease of use: Batch selection of items for export, print or saving has been greatly simplified

We really hope you find the new look as refreshing and useful as we do. We’ll be closely monitoring user feedback, so if you have any comments or suggestions on the new interface, we’d love to hear from you!

Kind regards
The Scirus Team.