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Wednesday, 25th February 2004

Institute for Scientific Information and NEC To Build Index of Web-based Scholarship

Citation Indexing
Specialized Search Tools
Source: Institute for Scientific Information
Institute for Scientific Information and NEC To Build Index of Web-based Scholarship
Very interesting! ISI is going to launch an open-web citation indexing tool.

Background
ResourceShelf has mentioned and linked to Citeseer/ResearchIndex many times. It's a web-based (and free) database that allows you to search and access scholarly (open-web accessible material) in computer science, info technology, and related areas. The database is built in an automated manner (autonomous citation indexing) and, along with direct links to the article, document conversion, citation analysis, and other services are made available. It's an amazing technology developed by Lee Giles (currently at Penn St.), Steve Lawrence (currently at Google), Gary Flake (currently at Yahoo Research), and others at NEC Research.

Today's Announcement
From the news release: "Thomson ISI and NEC Laboratories America (NEC) announced their collaboration to create a comprehensive, multidisciplinary citation index for Web-based scholarly resources. The new Web Citation Index will combine a suite of technologies developed by NEC, including 'autonomous citation indexing' tools from NEC's CiteSeer environment, with the capabilities underlying ISI Web of Knowledge. During 2004, Thomson ISI and NEC will operate a pilot of the new resource to receive feedback from the scientific and scholarly community. Full access to the index is projected for early 2005. When fully operational, the new resource will be a unique content collection within ISI Web of Knowledge."
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See Also: Lee Giles at Penn St. Has Created Three Other "Niche" Search Tools (Free)
Both offer citation indexing to web-based materials in two areas.
+ ResearchIndex@PSU
This is another version of ResearchIndex that Dr. Giles makes available. It is OAI compliant and will soon offer API access. Some of the content in this version is not in the ResearchIndex.Com database.
+ SmealSearch (business info, online since October 2003)
+ eBizSearch (electronic commerce info)
See Also: On a related note, NEC was recently awarded a patent for "focused crawler" technology.

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