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Scirus Receives "Best Specialty Search Engine" WebAward for the Fourth Consecutive Year. Scirus has received the 2007 "Best Specialty Search Engine" WebAward from the Web Marketing Association (WMA). This is the fourth consecutive year that Scirus has won this prestigious award. For more information click here .

Scirus Extends Journal Search with the Addition of Three New Publishers. Scirus, the free science-specific search engine has indexed the journal collection from three more publishers. This addition is the first step in indexing a comprehensive collection of journal material utilizing Scirus�� Web Services partnership with CrossRef, the cross-publisher linking network with over 2,200 participating publishers and societies. click here .

27 additional institutional repositories now available in Scirus. The indexing of important academic content in Scirus continues. Over the summer, 26 new university and research institute repositories have been added to the Scirus search index. For more information click here .

Scirus adds new innovative and time saving features. The latest Scirus release is an important milestone for it sees the free and most comprehensive science search engine integrate with the OpenURL standard for resolving full text links. Other notable new features in this release include the greater flexibility in the ways in which search results are displayed depending on the source returned; and tighter integration between basic and advanced search.

OpenURL is now integrated into Scirus. OpenURL integration with Scirus is facilitated through the Library Partners Program. The new program utilizes the OpenURL protocol, which standardizes the transfer of journal metadata. This enables search results in Scirus.com to be automatically cross-referenced with the library holdings of the institution at which researchers are working, resulting in the automatic display of links where the full-text is accessible. The Scirus Library Partners program benefits librarians by helping their user communities to find the shortest paths to as many full text links as possible. The users benefit by avoiding dead links and by connecting quickly to the full text articles. They can also see clearly that the access to the full text has been provided by the institution to which they are affiliated to. Scirus Library Partners offers two methods of setting up OpenURL integration. For more information click here .

More Customized Search Results in Scirus. As a mature platform addressing the informational needs of researchers, Scirus now indexes multiple forms of content from journal articles to theses, dissertations, books, courseware and science web pages. Flexible formatting helps make the interface more relevant to the searcher in accordance with the content type being searched by showing field information uniquely tailored to the source type E.g. ISBN number for a book or Patent Number for a patent record.

Intuitive Query Recall is now available in Scirus. This means that when a user inputs a query into the basic search box, these keywords are automatically transferred into the Advanced Search box if the user subsequently decides to conduct an Advanced Search query in the same session. A handy timesaver indeed!

Scirus partners with Hong Kong University: Award-Winning Science-Specific Search Engine Expands Its Reach in Asia-Pacific Elsevier today announced that Scirus, its free science-specific search engine, is further developing its repository search service in Asia-Pacific by partnering with The Hong Kong University (HKU) to index its repository, called Hong Kong University Theses Online (HKUTO). Read the press release here .

Scirus, has partnered with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) to index their two institutional repositories, ePrints@IISc and etd@IISc. The former is an eprints archiving facility for the IISc research community and the latter a digital repository of theses and dissertations of IISc’ students and researchers. IISc represents Scirus’ first Indian partner. With over 250 million scientifically relevant pages to date, the addition of IISc content underscores Scirus’ continued mission to remain the most comprehensive search engine of science-focused content on the Web. Read the press release here .

Scirus and CrossRef Announce Web Services Partnership: millions more records available for science web searches. Scirus has signed an agreement with CrossRef, the cross-publisher linking network with over 2200 participating publishers and societies, to become a Web Services Search Partner. The partnership allows Scirus to collect metadata from hundreds of participating publishers via CrossRef's new Web Services protocol. This combined approach improves how researchers, academics, students, and librarians search authoritative, scientific published content. Read the press release here .

Scirus Receives "Best Specialty Search Engine WebAward" for the Third Consecutive Year. Scirus has received the 2006 "Best Specialty Search Engine" WebAward from the Web Marketing Association (WMA). This is the third consecutive year that Scirus has won this prestigious award. Read the press release here .

Scirus indexes Wageningen University and Research Centre's Institutional Repository. Scirus has further expanded its repository search service in Europe through a partnership with Wageningen University and Research Centre (Wageningen UR), to index its repository. This is the first partnership of this kind for Scirus in the Netherlands. Read the full press release here .

Scirus partners with Saarland University to index its repository. Scirus has added the contents of PsyDok, the psychology-based repository, to its index through a partnership with Saarland University, Germany. As part of its Repository Search service, Scirus is also powering the discovery service on the PsyDok site. PsyDok, developed at Saarland University and State Library (SULB), collects and preserves psychology-related journal articles, post prints, prepublications, reports, and dissertations. Read the press release here .

Scirus partners with The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Scirus has further developed its repository search service in Asia-Pacific by partnering with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) to index its Repository, the HKUST Institutional Repository. Read the full press release here .

Scirus provides the means to clarify the past and define the future for the Oxford English Dictionary. Read the first of a series of case studies profiling Scirus’ users here .

Scirus’ Sharon Mombru is interviewed by Barbara Quint of Information Today in Windows Live Academic Search: The Details. Read the full article here .

"Scirus blends Public, Private STM Realms," in Information Today's March issue, Mick O'Leary, director of the library at Frederick, Md. and a principal in The Data Brokers, provides an overall positive review of Scirus, in particular when compared to Google Scholar ("Compared to Scirus, Google Scholar looks ill-planned and unfinished"). Read the full article in Information Today, March 2006, p. 41 and p.47 (article is not available online).

Scirus Builds on Global Success of Repository Search Service with the First Asia-Pacific Partner, Chiba University. Scirus is to index Chiba University's institutional repository, CURATOR, which holds 2,000 records in both English and Japanese and to power the search capability on its site. The partnership provides the opportunity to address the technical challenges of indexing Japanese language content. Read the press release here .

Scirus Expands its Index of Over Two Million Physics-Related Articles to Include Valuable Content from Institute of Physics Publishing. Scirus has partnered with Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP) to index the full text and metadata of its 200,000 articles. IOP is a learned society publisher specializing in physics and related disciplines, with a journals list dating back to 1874. IOP publishes some of the most highly cited titles in this subject area including the well-known Journal of Physics series, as well as journals from 14 international publishing partners. Read the press release here .

Scirus and MIT researchers collaborate to bring the Scientific Web to scientists in developing countries. Read more about the "Search Scirus with TEK" service here .

Scirus announces its first Repository Search partnership in Europe. DiVA, the Academic Archive Online, is a Scandinavian institutional repository platform and one of the leading regional initiatives in digital repositories. Read the press release here .

Scirus Adds California Institute of Technology to Repository Search Service. Scirus indexes the content and provides search capabilities for Caltech's Institutional Repository. Caltech CODA was launched in 2000 to digitally archive and make freely available Caltech's scholarly output and today it holds close to 4,000 theses, technical reports, preprints, articles, oral histories and conference papers produced by the 1,200 professional staff at Caltech. Read the press release here

"Search engines are changing the face of business forever", says The Business Online's Tony Glover. Read the article here

Scirus expands its Repository Search Service with a partnership with the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), the world's largest theses and dissertations portal. Scirus has indexed more than 200,000 electronic theses and dissertations from over 50 institutes worldwide that are currently made available via NDLTD, and is powering one of the search capabilities on the repository's site. This partnership strengthens the comprehensiveness of Scirus' index and provides greater visibility to this valuable content. Read the press release here

Scirus featured in eSchool News. Corey Murray features Scirus in his article on intelligent searching. Read the article here

Scirus receives WebAward for the second consecutive year - Scirus has been awarded the "Best Directory or Search Engine Website" WebAward for 2005. This is the second consecutive year that Scirus wins this award category from the Web Marketing Association. Scirus has also been awarded "Best Specialty Search Engine" by Search Engine Watch in 2001 and 2002, and received an honorable mention in 2005 for the same categoty. Read the press release here

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