Search engine for researchers

Microsoft released Microsoft Academic 2.0 in 2016 as its new search engine for academic searches. According to its website, Microsoft claims to streamline and refine the search…

A multilingual document search engine called Omnity could make interdisciplinary research easier. This tool was launched in May 2016 and is based on semantic mapping, thereby…

Yewno is a new search engine that claims to mimic the workings of the human brain. In contrast to traditional tools, such as Google, Yahoo, or Bing, which are based on keyword…

Reaxys is a web-based tool that was launched in 2009 and is licensed by Elsevier. It allows chemists to retrieve chemistry information and data from published literature, such as…

A graduate student who works with me once remarked that he “wasn’t very good at doing literature searches.” I replied that researchers often spend as much time in the library as…

The one disadvantage of the explosion of scientific publishing is the problem it presents for researchers seeking to stay up to date with the latest results in their area of…

Addressing Data Limitations Having access to large volumes of big data is usually considered to be a significant advancement in research. Yet, unless that data is coded and stored…

It Started with So Much Promise When Google Scholar (GS) first launched in November 2004, the academic search engine seemed to offer so much promise — the ability to search…

Researchers use a considerable amount of effort and time to find information sources. A discovery tool that locates and discovers a wide variety of information sources that can be…

As an editor I use Google Scholar (GS) as a research tool quite often to check on spelling, nomenclature, and other style points. Since I have access to a good online search engine…