[From Peter Suber's Open Access News
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2005_06_05_fosblogarchive.html#a111827635692231635 ]
Scirus indexing OA repositories
Scirus, the academic search engine from Elsevier,
http://www.scirus.com/ has launched a Repository Search Service.
From Elsevier's press release:
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2005/scirus2005a.html
'Elsevier today announced that its free science-specific search
engine, Scirus, has launched Scirus Repository Search, a new
service developed to support institutional repositories. T-Space,
the University of Toronto's institutional repository, is Scirus'
first collaboration. Scirus has added T-Space to its index and
is also providing additional search capabilities on the T-Space
website at no cost. The new initiative will make the intellectual
output from the University of Toronto, the leading and most
distinguished university in Canada, easier to find on both T-Space
and the Scirus website. Scirus indexed the full-text of T-Space's
complete repository, consisting of articles, datasets, preprints,
presentations, technical reports and more. By optimizing its
field capturing, Scirus allows users to search on all important
bibliographical information such as author, title and keyword. As
with all valuable sources, Scirus will brand the search results
so that users can easily identify T-Space content in the results
list...."Elsevier understands that an increasing amount of
valuable content is currently held in academic repositories and has
launched Scirus Repository Search to support institutes with these
initiatives," said Ammy Vogtlander, general manager of Scirus. "Scirus
is proud to work with the University of Toronto to ensure the content
found in T-Space is made available to Scirus' one million users."'
Received on Thu Jun 09 2005 - 18:21:29 BST