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Scirus

Scirus is a comprehensive science-specific search engine. Scirus searches over 410 million science-specific Web pages, enabling you to quickly:

  • Pinpoint scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data on the Web.
  • Find the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles, patents, pre prints and journals that other search engines miss.
  • Offer unique functionalities designed for scientists and researchers.

Scirus indexes the following sources

  • 477,000 articles from American Physical Society
  • 661,000 e-prints from ArXiv.org
  • 74,100 full-text articles from BioMed Central
  • 27,200 documents from Caltech Coda
  • 3,400 e-prints from Cogprints
  • 98,700 full-text articles from Crystallography Journals Online
  • 39,000 documents from CURATOR
  • 4.3 million documents from Digital Archives
  • 21,400 documents from DiVa
  • 110,000 full-text articles from Project Euclid
  • 34,800 full-text articles from Hindawi Publishing Corporation
  • 6,500 documents from HKUST Institutional Repository
  • 89,000 documents from The University of Hong Kong
  • 30,400 full-text documents available from IISc
  • 19,000 full-text documents available from Humboldt Universität
  • 342,000 full-text articles from IOP Publishing
  • 24.4 million patent data from LexisNexis
  • 23,500 full-text articles from Maney Publishing
  • 364,000 full-text documents from MD Consult
  • 662,000 full-text documents from Nature Publishing Group
  • 19.6 million Medline citations via PubMed
  • 78,500 documents from MIT OpenCourseWare
  • 25,400 technical reports from NASA
  • 1.6 million full-text theses and dissertations via NDLTD
  • 21,000 full-text documents from OncologySTAT
  • 10,400 documents from Organic Eprints
  • 1,990 documents from PsyDok
  • 1.9 million articles from PubMed Central
  • 1 million documents from RePEc
  • 66,500 full-text articles from Royal Society Publishing
  • 692,000 full-text articles from SAGE Publications
  • 10.8 million full-text articles from ScienceDirect
  • 524,000 full-text journal articles from Scitation
  • 9,100 articles from SIAM
  • 30,000 documents from University of Toronto T-Space
  • 159,000 full-text documents from WaY
  • 1.6 million journal articles from Wiley-Blackwell

Date

September 13, 2010


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