If you've never reviewed a list of Scirus sources (besides open web content) you can find a growing list here. Growing in terms of both sources and number of entries in each database. If you want to compare, here's what the list looked like (below) before the most recent update that's now online.
• 422,000 articles from American Physical Society
• 444,000 e-prints from ArXiv.org
• 19,000 full-text articles from BioMed Central
• 13,000 documents from Caltech Coda
• 3,000 e-prints from Cogprints
• 72,000 full-text articles from Crystallography Journals Online
• 14,000 documents from CURATOR
• 950,000 documents from Digital Archives
• 19,300 documents from DiVa
• 37,000 full-text articles from Project Euclid
• 2,600 documents from HKUST Institutional Repository
• 16,000 documents - of which 12,000 full-text documents - from HKUTO
• 8,700 full-text documents available from IISc
• 4,800 full-text documents available from Humboldt Universität
• 240,000 full-text articles from Institute of Physics Publishing
• 21.5 million patent data from LexisNexis
• 11,500 full-text articles from Maney Publishing
• 4,600 full-text documents from MD Consult
• 17.0 million Medline citations via PubMed
• 61,000 documents from MIT OpenCourseWare
• 23,900 technical reports from NASA
• 309,000 full-text theses and dissertations via NDLTD
• 6,900 documents from Organic Eprints
• 735 documents from PsyDok
• 800,000 articles from PubMed Central
• 221,000 documents from RePEc
• 60,000 full-text articles from Royal Society Publishing
• 7.2 million full-text articles from ScienceDirect
• 400,000 full-text journal articles from Scitation
• 9,100 articles from SIAM
• 9,600 documents from University of Toronto T-Space
• 14,000 full-text documents from WaY
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Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
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