Student and faculty researchers looking for a better way to search through academic journals now have a new option in xSearch, developed in collaboration between Stanford Libraries and Deep Web Technologies. With its powerful search capability, xSearch allows users to search up to 28 sources at a time.
While researchers can use existing search engines such as Google, JSTOR and Stanford’s Socrates library catalog search to find article titles within journals, xSearch has the additional capability to search within academic articles. xSearch also returns results in real time, allowing users to access the latest additions to the databases with each new search.
Grace Baysinger, the head librarian of Stanford’s Swain Library of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, worked with Deep Web Technologies to adapt the search engine to Stanford’s needs. She and other librarians worked to select the 28 resources through which xSearch searches.
xSearch is only available to members of the Stanford community (searching is unavailable for others). However, you can take a look at the user interface and review the list of databases used by heading to this page.
Deep Web Technologies has been around for several years and provides search technology for:
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