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Scitopia now with streamlined links to RefWorks

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“Fed­er­ated search ser­vices provider Deep Web Tech­nolo­gies, US, has announced that its fed­er­ated search prod­uct, Explorit Research Accel­er­a­tor, now includes seam­less inte­gra­tion with Ref­Works, a web-based solu­tion for cita­tions management.”

source: Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, July 30, 2009

Sci­topia was devel­oped by 21 top tech­no­log­i­cal and sci­en­tific soci­eties.  It is a freely avail­able data­base mainly in physics and engi­neer­ing.  Com­po­nent soci­eties are listed on a web­page off www.scitopia.org.  It lists papers going back as early as 1665, some of which are digitized.

Full text is offered on a pay-per-view basis, so cur­rently it is bet­ter to search Princeton’s sub­scrip­tion data­bases which have links to our full-text sub­scrip­tion resources.  INSPEC  and Com­pen­dex  cover even more resources than Sci­topia.  IEEE  — Xplore & IEL – are other over­lap­ping sub­scrip­tion data­bases we have, and they are com­pletely full-text.

Scitopia now offers an advanced alerts service

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“Scitopia.org, designed for direct access to the best in sci­ence and tech­nol­ogy research, pro­vides a one-stop search inter­face to more than three and a half mil­lion peer-reviewed arti­cles and con­fer­ence pro­ceed­ings, fifty mil­lion patents, and full-text doc­u­ments from gov­ern­ment web­sites. Founded in 2007, scitopia.org spans 350 years of data, fed­er­at­ing the schol­arly con­tent from twenty-one soci­eties, and six gov­ern­ment infor­ma­tion sources. Each search is run against all or selected dig­i­tal col­lec­tions. Results are then aggre­gated, de-duplicated and ranked for max­i­mum search effi­ciency.”  ( First men­tioned in this blog, Oct. 23, 2008, as part of DTIC’s MultiSearch.)

Update: New alert­ing service

 “Deep Web Tech­nolo­gies launches advanced alerts ser­vice in Scitopia.org — 06 Mar 2009

Fed­er­ated search ser­vices provider Deep Web Tech­nolo­gies, US, has launched their advanced alerts ser­vice in Scitopia.org, the free, fed­er­ated search por­tal pow­ered by Deep Web Tech­nolo­gies’ Explorit Research Accel­er­a­tor. Scitopia.org Alerts deliv­ers sci­ence and engi­neer­ing con­tent of inter­est to users through email and RSS feeds auto­mat­i­cally, rather than forc­ing users to come to scitopia.org to per­form searches them­selves. The ser­vice makes it easy for users to stay cur­rent on research from the deep web libraries of major sci­ence and engi­neer­ing soci­eties, such as IEEE, Insti­tute of Physics, Amer­i­can Phys­i­cal Soci­ety as well as patent data­bases and gov­ern­ment sources.”
 

“Scitopia.org Alerts ser­vice auto­mat­i­cally runs searches requested by users on the terms and those soci­eties they choose to include in their search. The tech­nol­ogy “remem­bers” which search results have already been deliv­ered to the user and sends only new results, mak­ing it a pow­er­ful tool for researchers to iden­tify new pub­li­ca­tions and arti­cles in their areas of inter­est. Alerts can be cre­ated for any term or field, includ­ing author, abstracts, and affil­i­a­tions. The tech­nol­ogy also rec­og­nizes insti­tu­tional sub­scrip­tions to soci­ety con­tent and auto­mat­i­cally authen­ti­cates those users, allow­ing them to click through to the full text from the Alert. Oth­ers can pur­chase full text on a pay-per-view basis.”

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Source: Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter 3/6/09

MultiSearch — new federated, deep web database for Defence

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US DTIC Online por­tal deploys Deep Web Tech­nolo­gies’ Mul­ti­Search inter­face — 23 Oct 2008

Search solu­tions provider Deep Web Tech­nolo­gies, US, has launched an updated inter­face for the Defense Tech­ni­cal Infor­ma­tion Center’s new DTIC Online research por­tal (http://multisearch.dtic.mil). DTIC is part of the US’ Depart­ment of Defense (DOD). The inter­face, known as Mul­ti­Search, offers four defence search chan­nels from a sin­gle drop-down menu, allow­ing users to access a col­lec­tion of sci­en­tific and defence-related resources in one simul­ta­ne­ous search. The search employs the lat­est ver­sion of Deep Web Tech­nolo­gies’ Explorit Research Accel­er­a­tor, which is seen to pro­vide ‘smart’ clus­ter­ing, ency­clo­pe­dia side­bars from Wikipedia, and EurekAlert! sci­ence news.

DTIC sup­ports the DOD and its com­mu­nity by cen­tral­is­ing sci­en­tific, tech­ni­cal and related defence-information ser­vices, data­bases and sys­tems. Its new DTIC Online sig­nif­i­cantly expands the breadth of infor­ma­tion scanned and retrieved with its four search chan­nels: DOD web­sites, DTIC Pub­lic Sci­en­tific and Tech­ni­cal Infor­ma­tion, the DTIC Web­site, and Fed­eral Sci­en­tific and Tech­ni­cal Infor­ma­tion. Mul­ti­Search also includes a fed­er­ated search of other fed­er­ated search web­sites, includ­ing Scitopia.org and WorldWideScience.org — both pow­ered by the Explorit Research Accel­er­a­tor. It there­fore is pro­jected to con­sol­i­date a num­ber of advanced search engines within one search, deliv­er­ing results users might never have uncovered.

The upgraded Mul­ti­Search por­tal adds new fea­tures that seek to enrich the user expe­ri­ence and value of research. By tak­ing advan­tage of Explorit’s ‘smart clus­ter­ing,’ Mul­ti­Search pro­vides relevance-ranked clus­ters that allow users to see their results organ­ised by topic. It also retrieves and dis­plays entries from Wikipedia and EurekAlert! that com­ple­ment the search expe­ri­ence. Explorit deliv­ers not only rel­e­vant results, but path­ways and con­text to guide users to more rel­e­vant search results.

Deep Web’s fed­er­ated search tech­nol­ogy is pro­jected to enable fee-based or pro­pri­etary con­tent to be searched pub­licly on the Inter­net, with­out giv­ing it away. This con­tent is not search­able by pub­lic search engines such as Google and Yahoo.

DTIC Online was cre­ated specif­i­cally for the defence com­mu­nity. Mul­ti­Search can be accessed from the pull-down menu by select­ing ‘Fed­eral S&T’ or by going directly to (http://multisearch.dtic.mil).The search is free and much of the con­tent is avail­able at no cost. Some con­tent — like that accessed through Sci­topia — can be pur­chased on a pay-per-view basis or accessed by a subscription.