Specialised Search Engines

Specialised search engines focus on providing directories and/or search engines for one subject area.

Search Engine

Description

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Go to CiteSeer

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Good for online research in the sciences, particularly computer and information science. Search by topic or author for full-text research documents such as articles, conference proceedings, monographs, technical reports, and preprints.

Supports:
Boolean (AND, OR, NOT).
Adjacent words default to one word proximity.
Automatic stemming.

A search engine to find engineering related websites, part numbers, application notes, materials properties, patents, standards & products and manufacturers.
 
Go to Scirus

Search Tips

Searches science-specific web pages as well as some science journals. The advanced search allows you to limit your search to specific information types (conference proceedings, patents, scientists' homepages, etc) or by subject areas.

Supports:
Boolean (AND, OR, ANDNOT, +, -).
" ": Phrase searching.
Wildcard *
Field Restriction, e.g. author:watson, title:.

Go to SMEALSearch

Search Tips

Searches the web and catalogs academic articles as well as commercially produced articles and reports that address any branch of Business. Keyword searches are performed on the full content of the documents.

Supports:
Boolean (AND, OR, NOT).
Adjacent words default to one word proximity.
Automatic stemming.

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