STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a partnership between
Scirus, its free science-focused search engine, and Chiba University, one of the leading scientific and technical universities in the Asia-Pacific region. Under the deal, Scirus will index the university's institutional repository, CURATOR, and also power the search capability on the CURATOR site, thereby making content easier to search.
As part of the agreement, Scirus will also participate in a joint communications program designed to demonstrate the value, and increase awareness of the repository in the University campus. Scirus will offer a more comprehensive search experience by using a special indexing process that combines the repository's metadata with its full text.
Scirus supports over one million researchers, scientists and students worldwide. It uses a dictionary with over 1.6 million scientific terms, unique pattern recognition tools and linguistic analysis to classify the content type and recognise the relevance of each document.
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