News and comment on science and on information sources and services for our library patron community, compiled by the librarians at UMass Amherst's Science and Engineering Library.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
WorldWideScience.org
WorldWideScience.org opens public access to more than 200 million pages of international research information. This international search portal was developed by the U.S. Department of Energy, the British Library and eight countries ranging from Australia to Japan. It uses federated search technology much like that of Google and Yahoo, searching an variety of databases then aggregating the results and ranking them, returning a variety of results for a single query.
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