Google-CrossRef Searches

A group of 25 leading scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publishers, in partnership with Google, are participating in a CrossRef-based search project. In this pilot project (to run throughout 2004), search results extend beyond each publisher's own content to include content from the other participating STM publishers.

I see this thing competing directly with Elsevier's Scirus and Scopus databases.

Users may submit searches from CrossRef Search Pilot boxes on the publishers' websites and results are returned from Google using the Google search and ranking algorithms, and using the article's DOI whenever possible to link from the search results to the published article. The results are limited to content from participating publishers, with the intent of reducing the noise produced by general web searches.

No guarantees how well this hacked search form will work (or how long). Give it a try and see what happens. Access to the articles, as always, depends on a subscription. If you're coming from a university website or from off-campus via a library website with which you have already done some sort of proxy authentication, you have a good chance of getting in the door.

Posted by Tom on October 07, 2004