Search Engines for Life Scientists
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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.
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.
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 is a free, publicly available medical research run by Deep Web Technologies.
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.
A customized search engine developed for the benefit of researchers in life science.
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A unique video search engine for science videos. Formerly known as BIOME, Intute is a health and life sciences search engine for disease research. 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. |
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A biology search engine run by the Pasteur Institute. A search engine that enables life science researchers to search, discover, and share knowledge locked within public and proprietary data. |
Australian web portal and life sciences search engine.
Specialized search engine that filters biology sites.
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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I became a medical/science writer after a rather circuitous, unconventional and sometimes, checkered career. Along the way, I learned a few things that I thought would be important to share with other PhDs who are seeking to change careers, t broaden their horizons and or simply to bring home a paycheck! I am sure that I missed a few things but here are my top 10 reasons to consider a career in medical/science writing:
