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Post date: Jul 11, 2011 7:46:6 PM
With NEEDLE, search the National Nuclear Archive and More
With NEEDLE, search the National Nuclear Archive and More
Via the Intelllogist Intellectual Property themed blog, 22 Dec 2010
http://intellogist.wordpress.com/2010/12/22/needle-search-the-national-nuclear-archive-and-more/
Excerpt:
Today we’ll take a gander at NEEDLE, a search system developed by the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). NEEDLE is a unique system with helpful sources available to search for free, including a prominent nuclear power database.
Want to know how you can see this new technology in action, better your prior art searching, and get a glimpse at the future of patent search?
NEEDLE was developed by the INL as an internal search system based around the needs of their researchers. INL is one of the leading sources of nuclear reactor research in the United States. Scientists there needed a new way to search multiple internal and external databases simultaneously to support their studies, and thus NEEDLE was born.
NEEDLE is a federated search system that sorts results based on a number of different subject matter clustering technologies, including the open-source Carrot2. Readers can jump over to the publicly available version of NEEDLE and search a host of different sources for free. Notable sources available include:
The National Nuclear Archive – A full text OCR scanned database of INL nuclear research. This is the only known free host for this database at this time, and could serves as a non-patent literature source for your nuclear power related prior art searches.
OCLC WorldCat – A collection of data from over 10,000 libraries worldwide.
OSTI sources – Including OSTI DOE Patents, a collection of bibliographic sections and abstracts of patents from the US Department of Energy.
Web sources – Including Yahoo!, Bing, and Wikipedia.
PubMed – A huge collection of free online medical information databases provided by the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.
Microsoft Academic Search: An Introduction
http://intellogist.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/microsoft-academic-search-an-introduction/
Excerpt
The first two things to note about Microsoft Academic Search are that it’s in Beta right now and that it’s also being continually updated. Right now, in fact, it’s in the process of a massive data roll-out over the next three months to more than double their available topic “domains.”
Written by me as Ellie K (URL is http://intellogist.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/microsoft-academic-search-an-introduction/#comment-1971 )
I use Microsoft Academic Search whenever I remember, and am always pleased with the results.
Usage habits get ingrained, so I tend to turn to Google Scholar, or the NLM/ PubMed/ Entrez search engines as a default. Sometimes I do that even when I’m not doing a search specific to the Life Sciences, which is particularly counterproductive!
I like MSFT Academic Search because it is far better at capturing, in a single page, the level of activity and impact of an individual’s research. The timeline is primarily responsible for that. But the paper groupings, into little pull down tabs, which lump duplicate content that was presented at various conferences, or republished as part of some other work, really helps filter and summarize.
Drill-down is easier, and for some reason, so is the ability to find free (legitimate!) versions of certain publications than with other search methods. Google Scholar is not bad for the latter, but is otherwise kind of a mess. It just spews out a list of citations, whereas MSFT has the same content, but does a lot of the work for me, without putting a wall between me and any of the underlying content.
One other thing: MSFT offers a better way of accepting feedback about errors. There is data security and quality control in place of course, but users CAN easily submit corrections e.g. mis-attribution due to similar/ identical Scholar names. The error gets corrected within a few days, or sooner.
I have a question, general purpose, so I’ll ask it here, as it doesn’t seem inconsistent with the topic of this blog post. When I was using MSFT Academic Search today, I noticed for the first time that some topics had “X days” following, from the main screen e.g.
Clinical Medicine (9 days left)
Psychiatry & Psychology (79 days left)
Economics & Business (19 days left)
What does that mean? Most other topics didn’t have any “# of days left designation”.
Thank you for this post. Double thank you if you are able to answer my question!
I got a response, an incorrect one. But it helped me figure out the answer. The topics that have no # of days left are the mainstream topics such as Computer Science. The topics that I mentioned above have that many days remaining until they are ready for release, I believe.
Although Intellogist is affiliated with Landon-IP, which is an intellectual property company whose primary search focus is in the area of patent search, the Intellogist blog covers a variety of alternative search engines. This makes sense, as the individuals associated with the patents are of equal interest. So autobiographical database search and research publication search, and of course, library management information systems are of direct relevance.
The newly released patent search product from Landon-IP http://www.patentworkbench.com/
Tips for scientific searches http://www.landon-ip.com/ScientificSearches.aspx
Obscure but useful search engines and applications for various purposes
1) Free patent searching with Patent Searcher
2) Track down articles your colleagues can't find!
http://intellogist.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/track-down-articles-your-colleagues-cant-find/
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3) The latest on the Thomson Reuters IP front:
Here's a link to the Alternate Search Engine blog, as an added bonus http://www.altsearchengines.com/
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This was another search-related article on Intellogist blog, which led me to something slightly odd.
EBSCO is a top 200 Fortune ranked privately held company
Behold the diversity of holdings!
Fishing tackle, life insurance, biographical and research databases and information retrieval, and much more! An Internet2 www2 website also.
http://www2.ebsco.com/en-us/ProductsServices/linksource/Pages/linksourcefaqs.aspx
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