Open access publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS) has announced that it has restructured its search capability to deliver an improved scholarly publishing search experience. The new search engine is claimed to be significantly faster than before and also return more relevant results with many ways to narrow, broaden, filter or sort.
The publisher has also re-organised its infrastructure for better search performance. It is now using Solr, an open source search server originally developed by CNET Networks, with the Lucene Open Source search engine. A separate server is dedicated to the search engine to efficiently fetch information from PloS's library of articles without impacting journal performance.
According to PLoS, users will now have more search choices, better results and faster service whether they choose simple or advanced search. Now, when a user does a 'simple' or 'advanced' search on any PLoS journal, the search will return a list of all PLoS articles from that journal, but will additionally be able to view a whole range of ways to narrow, broaden, filter or sort the results.
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