Search Engines > Search Engines: Academic Search Engines
Jul. 23, 2007 at 2:46pm by Gary Price
Of Permanent Value: Archiving The Web
I love working for Ask.com as Director of Online Information Resources and also compiling and editing ResourceShelf and DocuTicker. Yes, it's a busy life but I'm very fortunate to do what I love and even get paid for it. The challenge, as least as I see it, is writing...
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Jul. 10, 2007 at 8:16am by Barry Schwartz
Scholarly Science Search Tools Explored
Gary Price has complied a comprehensive list of science search tools that are available via the internet. He explored several science search tools including Scirus, Live Search Academic, Google Scholar, Scitopia, Global Science Gateway and others....
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Mar. 26, 2007 at 5:55am by Phil Bradley
TimeSearch: Searching Through History
TimeSearch is an interestingly different search engine, since the focus is just on time, as one may expect from the name. It's the brainchild of Bamber Gascoigne, (a well known British television presenter of historical programmes and academic quiz shows) and HistoryWorld. The search options are fairly limited - to...
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Mar. 9, 2007 at 8:28am by Barry Schwartz
UFO Crawler: The Truth Is Out There & Searchable
IBM and Yahoo teamed up to bring to you UFOCrawler, a search engine that is about finding sources on "UFO Sightings, time travel, conspiracy theories and anomalies." For example, a search on area 51 returns 7,904 sources, unfortunately some of the results do not look all that great. It is...
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Dec. 6, 2006 at 8:29am by Barry Schwartz
Microsoft Releases Live Search Books Beta
The Live Search Blog announced that Microsoft released a beta named Live Search Books this morning. Plus they enhanced Live Search Academic by adding millions of new articles, plus indexing theses, dissertations, and books within these disciplines....
