A new full-text search engine from major engineering societies

Barbara Quint from Information Today reports the expected launch of a new science and technology vertical portal called Scitopia.

Scitopia is a collaboration of 13 the major engineering societies which includes SAE. There might be more members coming in the future. The platform will be powered by Deep Web Technologies and use federated search technology. To see an existing Deep Web Tech implementation go to ScienceResearch and Science.Gov

In the press release Terry Hulbert from IOP states that " Scitopia will offer the most direct route to the most very latest research, within hours of it appearing on the web".

Does this mean that there is some "unhappiness" the way that Google Scholar is getting the information and displaying it with delays from these publishers?

This will be an interesting initiative to watch for A&I publishers like us and fee-based online information providers like Dialog. Nonetheless it's good for the market and customers of sci-tech research: now they will have another entry point besides Google Scholar and Microsoft Live Academic to access to limited aggregated scientific content for free.

Folksonomy meets taxonomy: Introducing Tags & Groups in Engineering Village

Our indexers have been "tagging" free language terms for years for Compendex now it's time to test and add to this a bottom up indexing from users. Go ahead and tag any record in Engineering Village.

Our new release with Tags and Groups feature is live and we might be the first abstract & index database (subscription) who is taking the "indexing" to the next level.

Here is the tag clouds which are currently being generated from our free language terms in Compendex database.
















Users will be able to tag records for public, private, their institution and for their groups too. We also suggesting terms when you add a tag.













Our tech team has done a great job putting this release out.

With this release you'll see some major enhancements for Referex Engineering books too. Finally you don't need to download the whole book to read a page.

We are running training sessions for the new release. Our training manager Gali Halevi will show you how you can leverage tagging and groups feauture within your organization.

Go check the new release of Engineering Village and don't forget sending us your feedback.