Search Engines for Life Scientists

Over the past few years, a number of search engines designed for the life sciences have appeared. I thought it might be informative for BioJobBlog readers to list some of the more popular ones and how they are used. I want to warn you in advance that this is not a comprehensive list. That said, if I’ve inadvertently omitted your favorite search engine, please feel free contact me or simply list it in the comments section for this post.

Scirus

Searches over 450 million scientific items, and allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists’ homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information. This site is owned and managed by Elsevier.

Novoseek

Search engine for biomedical literature in medline, grants and full text publications that will help you to: 1) retrieve meaningful documents related to your search, 2) narrow your search to find results in the relevant scientific journals and 3) identify the most relevant biomedical concepts for your query.

Mednar

Mednar is a free, publicly available medical research run by Deep Web Technologies.

Valdo 

A search engine that caters to all branches of life sciences. VADLO allows users to search within five categories: Protocols, Online Tools, Seminars, Databases and Software.

Life Sciences Search Engine

A customized search engine developed for the benefit of researchers in life science.

ScienceHack

A unique video search engine for science videos.

Intute

Formerly known as BIOME, Intute is a health and life sciences search engine for disease research.

BioScience Website

BioScience Website’s mission is to organize the world's biological science information and make it universally accessible and useful by utilizing the skyrocketing success of the World Wide Web.

BioNotebook 

A biology search engine run by the Pasteur Institute.

NextBio 

A search engine that enables life science researchers to search, discover, and share knowledge locked within public and proprietary data.

BioPages

Australian web portal and life sciences search engine.

Science Bucket

Specialized search engine that filters biology sites.

GoPubMed

Knowledge-based search engine for biomedical texts. It allows users to identify experts in the biomedical field.

Until next time...

Good Luck and Good Searching!!!!!!!!

 

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Michael Thompson - July 9, 2009 2:20 PM

Have you heard of goBalto? They're a new start up flying under the
radar. But from what I have seen, they're the slickest web-based
collaboration tool for drug discovery and development partnering. http://www.gobalto.com.

Valentin - July 17, 2009 7:54 AM

Thanks for mentionning novoseek! Any further information needed you can contact me on twitter (@novoseek).

Darcy - July 28, 2009 1:04 PM

Also, ScienceResearch.com (http://www.scienceresearch.com), created by the same company as Mednar. Federated Search of credible sources with over 15 different topical categories. Also, can search directly from your browser with an open-search plug-in: http://tinyurl.com/lf559f.

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