Posted by KaraS on November 6, 2004, at 19:09:34
In reply to Good engine for scientific searches » Larry Hoover » KaraS, posted by Jonathan on November 4, 2004, at 23:40:40
> Scirus - http://www.scirus.com - is owned by the publisher Elsevier, so of course all Elsevier journals are exhaustively indexed, but it also covers at least abstracts (from Medline) of other publishers' journals, together with university and other relevant web-sites, including Psycho-Babble.
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> You can compare it against Google at
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> http://www.extranet.elsevier.com/listman/BMN/none.htm
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> Searching for "lithium orotate" (in the hope of avoiding a thread-killing redirect), Google found 3310 hits whilst Scirus found 118, of which 51 are journal references and the other 67 are web-sites. A feature I particularly like is that Scirus suggests a list of keywords for further refining the search: for "lithium orotate" it lists 16 including alcoholism, bipolar, carbonate, kava kava, magnesium, male (but not female!), mood swings, potassium orotate and stress relief.
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> Thanks, Kara, for posting about Copernic. It looks interesting but I haven't yet used it long enough to offer any useful feedback. The tracker looks useful; a few years ago I made frequent use of a similar service called Netmind, which is no longer available. Unfortunately the free version of Copernic Tracker is only a 30-day trial.
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> Jonathan.
>Wow! That looks great, Jonathan! I've bookmarked it and I'll definitely be checking it out.
Thanks,
Kara
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