Introducing Scirus
Scirus is a science-specific search engine on the Internet developed by Elsevier. Scirus has currently indexed over 370 million science-related web pages.
Scirus indexes for instance the following journal sources:
- 17.9 million Medline citations
- 8.3 million ScienceDirect full-text articles
- 23.2 million patent data from LexisNexis
- 578,000 e-prints from E-Print ArXiv
- 25,100 NASA technical reports
- 3,400 e-prints from CogPrints
- 52,900 BioMed Central full-text articles
Scirus returns results from the whole web, including access-controlled sites that other search engines don't index. Scirus currently covers over 370 million science-related web pages including:
- 124 million .edu sites
- 40 million .org sites
- 19 million .ac.uk sites
- 37 million .com sites
- 36 million .gov sites
- and over 105 million other relevant STM and University sites from around the world.
The indexed web pages include: University web sites, Society homepages, Scientists' homepages, News pages, Conference information, Patent information, E-prints/preprints, Company homepages, and Product information. This information is usually freely accessible to anyone via the World Wide Web.
More information on these information sources can be found at: http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/aboutus/. There is no charge for using Scirus.
Searching
Scirus has a wide range of special features to help you pinpoint the scientific information you need. With Scirus, you can:
- Select to search in a range of subject areas including health, life, physical and social sciences.
- Narrow your search to a particular author, journal or article.
- Restrict your results to a specified date range.
- Find scientific conferences, abstracts and patents.
- Refine, customize and save your searches.
More Search Options and Tips can be found at: http://www.scirus.com/html/help/.