Web site of the month: Scirus

www.scirus.com

Scirus is a search engine that is purely focused on scientific information. It filters out non-scientific information, allowing you to conduct a much more focused search than you could on a general search engine like Google or DuckDuckGo.

With an index covering over 575 million items it allows users to search for journal content, but also the wider internet including web sites, course information, institutions and more.

Scirus also has a number of really useful search tools, particularly in the advanced search option, including:

• Search by subject areas, including medicine, psychology and life sciences
• Search for authors, journals or articles or other types of information
• Search by date range
• Boolean search (AND, OR, ANDNOT)
• Wildcard searching
• Automatic spellchecking of search terms
• Refine and even save your searches
• Display results by relevance or date
• Email or export your results

If you are looking on the Internet for science based information, Scirus is a great starting point...