Fed­er­ated search ser­vices provider Deep Web Tech­nolo­gies, US, has announced that its Explorit Research Accel­er­a­tor tech­nol­ogy is pow­er­ing a new alerts ser­vice for sci­ence researchers via the DOE Sci­ence Accel­er­a­tor. With the new ser­vice, researchers can expect to receive infor­ma­tion about new DOE resources rel­e­vant to them.

Users of the free ser­vice cre­ate a per­son­alised pro­file of searches related to their areas of inter­est. The ser­vice per­forms these searches on users’ behalf every week and e-mails the users noti­fi­ca­tions of newly pub­lished results.

Sci­ence Accel­er­a­tor is pro­jected as a gate­way to DOE-related sci­ence infor­ma­tion, includ­ing R&D results, project descrip­tions, accom­plish­ments and other author­i­ta­tive infor­ma­tion, via resources made avail­able by the US Depart­ment of Energy’s Office of Sci­en­tific and Tech­ni­cal Infor­ma­tion (OSTI). The ser­vice searches 10 major DOE data­bases and por­tals, includ­ing hun­dreds of thou­sands of full-text doc­u­ments going back to 1991 and many more cita­tions going back to the Man­hat­tan Project era. Sci­ence Accel­er­a­tor resources are incor­po­rated into Science.gov, also hosted by OSTI. Science.gov is incor­po­rated into another prod­uct main­tained by OSTI, WorldWideScience.org. This is expected to expose Sci­ence Accel­er­a­tor resources to a global audience.

OSTI cre­ated Sci­ence Accel­er­a­tor and intro­duced it to the pub­lic in April 2007. Explorit, Deep Web Tech­nolo­gies’ fed­er­ated search sys­tem, allows Sci­ence Accel­er­a­tor users to search the 10 data­bases simul­ta­ne­ously in real-time and from a sin­gle search box. Rel­e­vant results from all sources are com­pared against one another, ranked for rel­e­vance, and dis­played in a sin­gle search results page.”

Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newsletter