I've just received (as I suppose many but not all on TIPS did) an
announcement from Elsevier of a new search engine. On paper it
sounds great. But the few trial searches I tried were
disappointing compared with my favourite for biomedical, PubMed
(Medline). This is curious, because Scirus supposedly
includes Medline. And restricting coverage to the fields I was
interested in didn't help.
Anyone else have any evaluative opinions on it? I append an
edited version of the announcement I received from Elsevier.
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Elsevier Science wrote:
>
> we would like to inform you
> about the launch of Scirus (http://www.scirus.com/?h) - a powerful new search engine
>developed for
> locating scientific information only.
>
> Scirus delivers more relevant search results because it focuses on scientific
>content, indexes complete
> documents, searches the whole web including access-controlled sites, and reads
>non-text files like
> PDF (see http://www.scirus.com/about?h).
>
> At this stage Scirus covers more than 60 million science related pages from the Web
>as well as
> membership sources such as ScienceDirect, MEDLINE on BioMedNet, Beilstein on ChemWeb
>and
> Neuroscion. This is only the beginning - Scirus aims to include more databases in
>the near future.
>
> Click on http://www.scirus.com/?h to do a search and see how Scirus performs.
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