Scirus leads the way to key scientific content.

Finding relevant scientific data on the Web can prove difficult. Generic search engines often return many irrelevant results and it is easy to miss out key scientific information. Scirus, specifically designed with the requirements of scientists in mind, helps you to easily locate high-quality scientific information from the Web, by highlighting only those sites of scientific relevance. It also identifies peer-reviewed articles that are hard to find using general search engines.

About Scirus

Scirus is a free search engine whose continuously updated index currently contains over 220 million pages. Web sources searched by Scirus include research institutes, governments, scientific organizations, conferences, scientists’ homepages and company homepages worldwide.  In addition, Scirus indexes scientific journals and other valuable content sourced from MEDLINE, ScienceDirect, the American Institute of Physics, patent offices and NASA among others.
As part of its commitment to focusing on scientifically relevant sources, Scirus recently launched its Repository Search Service and is partnering with leading universities and institutes worldwide including the University of Toronto and the Cailfornia Institute of Technology. Scirus has indexed partners' institutional repositories, making their valuable content accessible to Scirus' 1 million users worldwide.

Scirus' commitment to making its sources visible is highlighted in that results from proprietary sources are clearly identified, assuring users the validity of the content.
This specif content development approach and partnership program enables Scirus to index sources not found in other search engines.

Why use Scirus?

Scirus is the only search engine on the Web whose technology is adapted exclusively to scientific information. Its search and retrieval technology – powered by the renowned FAST platform – is supported by scientific dictionaries uniquely developed by Elsevier. These dictionaries classify the document type and content and are used in combination with pattern recognition tools to provide accurate recognition of scientific documents. This in-depth categorization of web content is one of Scirus’ key strengths.

Scirus’ user interface offers advanced search functionalities particularly relevant to scientific searching, such as the ability to search on a particular author or title, within a source or subject area, and by document type such as articles, conference pages and patents.  The use of a unique algorithm optimizes the relevance and ranking of Scirus search results by assigning preferential weight to scientific documents and those containing scientific terms.  This allows Scirus to provide users with an accurate and relevant display of results from both web and proprietary sources.

Special features that will help you pinpoint the scientific information you need include:

• select a range of subject areas (including health, life, physical and social sciences) or content sources from which to run your search
• narrow your search to a particular author, journal or article
• restrict your results to a specified date range
• find scientific conferences, abstracts and patents
• refine, customize and save searches
  

Scirus can be found at  scirus.com. It is the recipient of numerous International awards, including the Search Engine Watch award for Best Specialty Search Engine, and the WebAward for Best Search Engine or Directory in 2005 and 2004. 

 Submit your site to Scirus and expand the availability and visibility of your content to researchers and scientitists as well as the general public. It also generates traffic to your own site.