Scitopia.org: Cross-File Searching of Scientific Society Publications
by Helen Josephine
Scitopia.org is a free federated vertical search portal including the publications of 15 scientific societies, patents from the European, Japanese and US patent offices, and full-text documents from the U.S. Department of Energy. Access to articles, proceedings, reports is linked directly to the society's Web page and full-text access is authenticated based on SULAIR license agreements with the publisher.
The 15 founding societies are:
- Acoustical Society of America
- American Geophysical Union
- American Institute of Physics
- American Physical Society
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- American Vacuum Society
- ECS
- IEEE
- Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Institute of Physics Publishing
- Optical Society of America
- Society of Automotive Engineers
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- SPIE
Scitopia.org was launched in June 2007 and includes basic and advanced search, relevancy ranking and the ability to use Boolean search strategies. Search tools and functions will evolve and additional scientific societies will be added. You are encouraged to use the feedback function to suggest improvements and other partners.
You can find Scitopia.org on SULAIR's databases and articles Web page. Select Browse by Title and then click *Go* for an alphabetized list of all titles. You can also access Scitopia.org directly.
