Scirus

Scirus is a comprehensive science-specific search engine. Like CiteSeerX and Google Scholar, it is focused on scientific information. Unlike CiteSeerX, Scirus is not only for computer sciences and IT and not all of the results include full text. Like OpenGrey (System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe),it is a very important information source for grey literature, although unlike the latter, it also contains bibliographic details of peer-reviewed literature. It sends its scientific search results to Scopus, an abstract and citation database covering scientific research output globally. Scirus is owned and operated by Elsevier.

See also

• Academic databases and search engines
• CiteSeerX
• Impact factor

References

• Boswell, Wendy. "Scirus". About.com. Retrieved 11 February 2013. 
• Ford, Lyle; O'Hara, Lisa Hanson (2008). "It's All Academic: Google Scholar, Scirus, and Windows Live Academic Search". Journal of Library Administration 46 (3-4): 43–52. doi:10.1300/J111v46n03_04. 
• Giustini, Dean; Eugene Barsky (2005). "A look at Google Scholar, PubMed, and Scirus: comparisons and recommendations". Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries 26: 85–89. 
• Mayr, Philipp; Walter, Anne-Kathrin (2007). "An exploratory study of Google Scholar". Online Information Review 31 (6): 814–830. doi:10.1108/14684520710841784. 
• Notess, Greg R (July/August 2005). "Scholarly Web Searching: Google Scholar and Scirus". Online 29 (4) (Information Today, Inc.). 

External links

• Scirus homepage
• Scirus, Péter's Digital Reference Shelf, Gale Reference Reviews