I tried it out yesterday and managed a couple of successful searches, interspersed with the odd error message. Looks potentially useful. Perhaps all us LIS-Es were trying it out at the same time and it couldn't cope.
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Lynne Robinson
Sent: 14 June 2005 09:54
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Subject: Re: ScienceResearch.com
I've tried this but the message I'm getting is server busy/unavailable.
Anyone else having the same problem.
Lynne Robinson,
Electronic Resources Librarian,
Newcastle College.
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Sent: 13 June 2005 09:44
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Subject: ScienceResearch.com
Interesting cross searching service:
ScienceResearch.com
http://www.scienceresearch.com
'ScienceResearch.com is a free, publicly available Internet web portal
allowing access to numerous scientific journals and public science
databases... Powered by Deep Web Technology's proprietary Explorit(TM) deep
web search engine, a single query will search thousands of high quality
journals and databases, effectively millions of documents, in real-time'
Covers major publishers: Elsevier, Highwire, IEEE, Nature, Taylor & Francis,
etc and free journal sources like DOAJ. Full text access to commercial
journals requires a subscription or payment.
A bit like Google Scholar, but better?!
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