Femke Markus Sr. Product Manager Scirus 18 October 2002, CERN, Geneva
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Femke Markus
Sr. Product Manager Scirus
18 October 2002, CERN, Geneva
Searching the Scientific Web:
Scirus &
The added benefits for the scientific community
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Outline Presentation
Why Scirus
Scirus Value Chain
Added value for ES and scientific community
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Why Scirus
How much of your time do you spend on Web - or proprietary database sources when
searching for scientific information
Web Sources
40%
DatabaseSources
60%
Market Research Elsevier Science (Nov 1999)
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Why Scirus
Which of the following search resources do you use to search for work-related searches?
Market Research Elsevier Science / Frank N. Magid Associates N = 464 (May 2002)
63% 62%
47%
35%
24% 23%
12% 11%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
Yahoo
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Why Scirus
How often, if ever, do you use an Internet search engine to obtain scientific information?
Market Research Elsevier Science / Frank N. Magid Associates N = 464 (May 2002)
32%
39%
13%11%
4%1%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
Every day Two ormore
times aweek
Once aweek
Couple oftimes per
month
Once amonth or
less
Never
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Why Scirus
80 % use Internet Search engines for ‘every’ assignment or ‘most assignments’
50% use Library Web portals / Class Website
50% said that the information on the Web is not sufficient for their assignments
65% said that the Internet does not offer a sufficiently wide range of resources
Source: OCLC White Paper on the Information Habits of
College Students (1,050 respondees)
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Why Scirus
“Four out of five students turn to mainstream search engines when they have to find information for a research project. These search engines usually miss the most useful resources in the
invisible web, on which colleges spend so much money in licensing fees and
on which scholars spend so much time in peer review.”
Source: CLIRinghouse, Feb. 2002.
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Why Scirus
Develop a search engine that focuses on scientific Web information and also
covers proprietary database information:
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About Scirus
A free web search engine for scientific information: covering both Web and proprietary information
Developed by Elsevier Science
In cooperation with FAST (alltheweb.com)
Launched in April 2001
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Scirus Value Chain
ProprietaryDatabases
Web contentScientific
Web content
ValueAdded
Functionalities
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Content Coverage
Scirus now covers > 120 million pages:
Scientific Web Sources: - 105 million freely accessible Web pages
Scientific Journal Database Sources: - 17 million article records
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Content Coverage
Websources (105 million pages):
40 million .edu
14.5 million .com
13 million .org
5 million .ac.uk
4 million .gov
1.7 million.net
rest: others, like 0.6 million .nl
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Content Coverage
Proprietary sources:
Beilstein: 650,000 million abstracts
BioMed Central: 820 full-text articles
IDEAL: 260,000 full-text articles
MEDLINE: 13 million citations
ScienceDirect: 1.7 million full-text articles
USPTO: 900,000 patents
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Content Coverage
Harvested structured data sources :
E-print ArXiv:180,000 preprints (Los Alamos)
Math Preprints: 566
Chem Preprints: 563
Cogprints: 1,400
NASA: 10,310
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Scirus Data processing
Web URLs Seedlist Crawling
Indexing Classification
Database load
Scirus Index
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Scirus Value Chain
ProprietaryDatabases
Web contentScientific
Web content
ValueAdded
Functionalities
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1. Web / Journal selection
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1. Web / Journal selection
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2. Further refinement of source selection
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3. Search by Information Types
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5. ‘Intelligent query analysis’
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6. Search within Subject Areas
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7. Search by field
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8. Sort by relevance / date
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7. Refine your search
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9. Save or Email results
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10. Add Scirus to your Website
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Scirus gratis te integreren search box
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Scirus gratis te integreren search box
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Added value of Scirus for Elsevier Science and scientific community
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Benefits for Elsevier Science
Increase awareness of and traffic to our published articles
Position ES in the emerging search engine market
Increase ES knowledge on latest technological development
Added ‘search the scientific Web’ functionality to ES electronic platforms
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Benefits for the scientific community
Researchers & students often use search engines when looking for scientific information
Scirus goes places other search engines don’t go
Free product
Downloadable Scirus Search boxes
Your websites can be covered as well
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