What is the Bioresearch Metasearch engine?

What is it?

The Bioresearch Metasearch system is a search engine created by the Lane Medical Library and Knowledge Management Center that communicates with a large number of public and private scientific search engines to return information useful to life sciences laboratory researchers. [how it works]

[example search results]

What's in it?

Bioresearch Metasearch searches databases of:

• Full-text articles
• Specialized literature sources, such as scientific citation DBs
• Protocols
• Patents
• Biotools
• Extant grants and current funding sources
• Data sources internal to Stanford

What is it for?

In a few words, finding EVERYTHING and still being able to navigate the results - see this example use involving finding the application of a laboratory kit in bioresearch.

Unique Characteristics

• Very easy to use
• Comprehensive searching: Searches the entire universe of information
• Searches commercially-licensed sources, not just the public domain
• Hits are categorized

Key references

• See discussion of Bioresearch Metasearch in Researcher's Toolkit class, complete with class slides and videorecording

Source

Lane Librarian

Record created 5/25/2007.

ypouliot, September 18, 2009