<p>I normally use <a href="http://scholar.google.com/">Google Scholar</a>, but Elsevier also has the non-public <a href="http://www.scopus.com/">Scopus</a> (which means I have to use a campus proxy). Also <a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/">CiteSeerX</a> but the semantic side is not as rich.</p>

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david valentine
<p>The Elsevier service <A href="http://www.geofacets.com/">Geofacets</a> "is designed to search for, and extract, maps, sections and other geographically-referenced geoscientific data from a very large and growing volume of published content", and as such is perhaps relevant -- though it focusses on georeferenced data rather than on scientific articles.</p>

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kaberett
<p>After scirus is closed, which search engine do you all use?</p>

<p>I know of Arxiv, and ADS, which only partially overlaps with Earth Science related issues. Any other recommendations would be appreciated.</p>

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Would like to hear about what functionality/features of a search engine you found useful. There is an ongoing project "[EarthCube](http://www.earthcube.org/)" that is focused on managing Earth Sciences information. Communicate with [Community Inventory](http://workspace.earthcube.org/cinergi) and [Broker](http://workspace.earthcube.org/bcube) groups. I'm involved with the Inventory.
david valentine
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In text search of pdf / ps files, and support of search with synonyms/ equivalent wording - by that I mean, if I , e.g. write "forcasting of weather", I would appreciate if "weather prediction" is also included - that is, inclusion of other linguistic forms of search terms.

Finally, multiple languages would be great - German and English, for example would really double my field of view.
Sean
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What is an Earth Science search engine?
tobias47n9e
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A search engine focusing on documents / research papers in the field of earth science.
Sean
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But scirus was not Earth Science specific. It searched all the ElSevier Journals or am I remembering wrongly?
tobias47n9e
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Yes of course. But that was the best I had - now, I am aware, the medical students have PubMed, focusing on medicine, Jura students have thier stuff as well - now that Scirus is gone, and I need a new search enigine (google scholar is no where near scirus) I wonder if I should find one focusing on Earth Science - hence the question.
Sean
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Also, i dont see a Atmospheric sciences / climatology subspace?
Sean
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Scirus redirects to Science-Direct which searches the same journals. But of course that leaves away all other publishers. Google-Scholar does a pretty good job of searching all journals.
tobias47n9e
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I still find Scirus used to return things which satisfied my search better.
Sean
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# Earth Science Search Engine

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-04-30)

After scirus is closed, which search engine do you all use?

I know of Arxiv, and ADS, which only partially overlaps with Earth Science related issues. Any other recommendations would be appreciated.

**Tags:** resources, informatics

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Would like to hear about what functionality/features of a search engine you found useful. There is an ongoing project "[EarthCube](http://www.earthcube.org/)" that is focused on managing Earth Sciences information. Communicate with [Community Inventory](http://workspace.earthcube.org/cinergi) and [Broker](http://workspace.earthcube.org/bcube) groups. I'm involved with the Inventory.  
> **username_0**: In text search of pdf / ps files, and support of search with synonyms/ equivalent wording - by that I mean, if I , e.g. write "forcasting of weather", I would appreciate if "weather prediction" is also included - that is, inclusion of other linguistic forms of search terms.  Finally, multiple languages would be great - German and English, for example would really double my field of view.  
> **username_2**: What is an Earth Science search engine?  
> **username_0**: A search engine focusing on documents / research papers in the field of earth science.  
> **username_2**: But scirus was not Earth Science specific. It searched all the ElSevier Journals or am I remembering wrongly?  
> **username_0**: Yes of course. But that was the best I had - now, I am aware, the medical students have PubMed, focusing on medicine, Jura students have thier stuff as well - now that Scirus is gone, and I need a new search enigine (google scholar is no where near scirus) I wonder if I should find one focusing on Earth Science - hence the question.  
> **username_0**: Also, i dont see a Atmospheric sciences / climatology subspace?  
> **username_2**: Scirus redirects to Science-Direct which searches the same journals. But of course that leaves away all other publishers. Google-Scholar does a pretty good job of searching all journals.  
> **username_0**: I still find Scirus used to return things which satisfied my search better.  

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_3 on 2014-05-21. Score: 7 | Accepted answer

The Elsevier service [Geofacets](http://www.geofacets.com/) "is designed to search for, and extract, maps, sections and other geographically-referenced geoscientific data from a very large and growing volume of published content", and as such is perhaps relevant -- though it focusses on georeferenced data rather than on scientific articles.


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### Answer by username_1 on 2014-04-30. Score: 8

I normally use [Google Scholar](http://scholar.google.com/), but Elsevier also has the non-public [Scopus](http://www.scopus.com/) (which means I have to use a campus proxy). Also [CiteSeerX](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/) but the semantic side is not as rich.


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