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Duncan Riley
Duncan Riley
Can anyone recommend a good search engine for studies/ research etc? GSchoolar doesn't cut it.
October 9, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Share
Duncan, I've re-posted your question here- http://friendfeed.com/rooms... Interested as well. - michael sean wright
I usually use the academic database that my public library subscribes to. I just have to put in my library card number, and get access to all the same journals, newspapers, and more that I had when I was at university. - Ladybug Heather
blackwell synergy - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Librarian answer- it depends on what you are looking for. Different databases for different purposes. +1 Heather. See what your library can give you access to. The good ones are $$$$. - suelibrarian
Also State Library of Vic and Nat Lib Oz both give access to good list of databases after registration. - suelibrarian
From Life scientist's room: Scopus (Elsevier) is said to be covering more of the informal literature, and is free for a limited time - I am afraid I don't know for how long. It is pretty good on the formal (published) literature - Maxine
ISI Web of Knowledge, ScienceDirect, EBSCOhost are all rather extensive (commercial though). If you are looking for free search engines/ material then perhaps you can try BASE http://www.base-search.net/ and OAIster http://www.oaister.org/ - Wobbler
Disclaimer that I work at Elsevier, but I would suggest Scirus.com, it is Elsevier's free science-specific search engine. If you have access to Scopus, that is the way to go, because it has Scirus search built in. - Michael Habib
Duncan: what are you looking for in particular? - Amund Tveit