Science societies to launch federated vertical search portal, scitopia
Thirteen science and technology societies from across the world are set to launch scitopia.org, a free federated vertical search portal. The new portal, to be launched in June 2007, will enable users to explore the research most cited in scholarly work and patents in a single click.
Researchers at University of Toronto will access full text content directly via our U of T Library subscriptions to these societies’ publications.
Founding partners include the American Geophysical Union, American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Institute of Physics, American Physical Society, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Electrochemical Society, IEEE, Institute of Physics Publishing, Optical Society of America, SPIE, Society of Automotive Engineers and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Other organisations will be invited to join as the project progresses.
Scitopia.org will aggregate the entire electronic libraries of key players in major science and technology disciplines. Users will be able to search from more than three million documents, including peer reviewed journal content and conference proceedings, spanning 150 years of science and technology. Visitors to scitopia.org will be presented with a simple, but function-rich interface. They will be able to search for full text articles using a fielded approach, for example, by article title or author name.
source: KnowledgeSpeak April 2007
