Scirus

Short description: Scientific search engine, 2001–2014

Scirus

Languages	English
Access
Providers	Elsevier
Coverage
Disciplines	Life Sciences; Social Sciences; Physical Sciences; Health Sciences
Temporal coverage	2001-2014
Geospatial coverage	Worldwide
No. of records	167 million pages
Links
[www.scirus.com Website]

Scirus was a comprehensive science-specific search engine, first launched in 2001. Like CiteSeerX and Google Scholar, it was focused on scientific information. Unlike CiteSeerX, Scirus was not only for computer sciences and IT and not all of the results included full text. It also sent its scientific search results to Scopus, an abstract and citation database covering scientific research output globally. Scirus was owned and operated by Elsevier. In 2013 an announcement appeared, on the Scirus homepage, announcing the site's retirement in 2014:

"We are sad to say goodbye. Scirus is set to retire in early 2014. An official retirement date will be posted here as soon as it is determined. To ensure a smooth transition, we are informing you now so that you have sufficient time to find an alternative search solution for science-specific content. Thank you for being a devoted user of Scirus. We have enjoyed serving you."

By February 2014, the Scirus homepage indicated that the service was no longer running.

See also

• Academic databases and search engines
• Author-level metrics
• CiteSeerX
• Impact factor

References

• Boswell, Wendy. "Scirus". About.com. http://websearch.about.com/od/referencesearchengines/p/Scirus.htm. 
• Ford, Lyle; O'Hara, Lisa Hanson (2008). "It's All Academic: Google Scholar, Scirus, and Windows Live Academic Search". Journal of Library Administration 46 (3–4): 43–52. doi:10.1300/J111v46n03_04. 
• Giustini, Dean; Eugene Barsky (2005). "A look at Google Scholar, PubMed, and Scirus: comparisons and recommendations". Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association 26 (3): 85–89. doi:10.5596/c05-030. https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/jchla/index.php/jchla/article/download/22437/16666. 
• Mayr, Philipp; Walter, Anne-Kathrin (2007). "An exploratory study of Google Scholar". Online Information Review 31 (6): 814–830. doi:10.1108/14684520710841784. 
• Notess, Greg R (July–August 2005). "Scholarly Web Searching: Google Scholar and Scirus". Online (Information Today, Inc.) 29 (4). 

External links

• Scirus homepage
• Scirus, Péter's Digital Reference Shelf, Gale Reference Reviews