AltSearchEngines Blog
December 29, 2008
The Top 10 Health Search Engines of 2008
"Lalisio Literature makes the list because it is an attractive gateway toopen access literature and open access, what with the passage of
mandatory open access legislation worldwide (...), will more and
more affect all our lives for the better---and render more and more
valuable medical literature searchable."
Alternative Search Engines for the Life Sciences
"I like Lalisio Literature because it is a handy entry point to the world of open access materials. The open access movement is something we all need to grasp the workings, principles and passions of and exploit to the fullest so as to be empowered to find whatever we can of value in the interstices of the Deep Web and its subset, grey literature. Like Mednar (though not as well), Lalisio Literature enables users to mine the riches of databases and repositories that other search engines don’t always burrow into well if all."
Lalisio Literature Offers Easy Lingua
If you're like me, you have a love-hate relationship with Google, and are always excited when a new search engine arrives for specialized searches.Lalisio Literature is the newest offering from the German team responsible for the Lalisio social network, formed in 2001, which connects professors and students in the sharing of gray literature and academic recommendations.
If you need to search for science and technology books, journal articles, or "open access" downloadable content, Lalisio Literature is the place to go.
Running a search for books about "Google," I found 84 book results, categorized by title, author, publisher, year published, and keywords. Clicking on a random title showed ISBN numbers, book format, language, and price comparisons to buy the book from Powell's, Amazon.com, AbeBooks.com, ecampus.com, or alibris.
Due nuovi motori per cercare letteratura scientifica nel web
Lalisio Literature è un nuovo motore di ricerca che offre un’interfaccia molto attraente e permette la ricerca in un gateway che consente l’accesso a base dati come PubMed Central e arXiv.org Eprint Archive (search in Open Access) nonchè ad archvi di letteratura grigia come E-Books ed E-journals. Dalle prove fatte è un buon strumento che permette di focalizzare per anno e per altri metadati a nostro parere la sezione e-books è abbastaza carente, non consente di avere i testi open acess in formato pdf e neanche suddivisi per categoria. La sezione E-journals è da incrementare con altri editori oltre che Ingenta. Forse ci penseranno in futuro!!!!
Literature.Lalisio.com - Find Your Next Book
Reading can be addictive. If you’re having a hard time finding that next piece of literature to indulge with in your free time, you should search through Literature.lalisio.com. This site will allow you to quickly search through the top book retailers, to find the book you’ve been meaning to digest for a long time. If you’re interested about the inner workings of the search engine, you will find all that information on the site. All you need to know is that the book searches are very accurate. You won’t get almost any inaccurate result. Searching for an author gives you a quick and accurate overlook at his or her work. If you search for a book’s title, you’ll be able to quickly find reviews and stores from where to purchase the books. This might just be the search engine book lovers have been looking for all their lives. You finally have a place through where you can find great books to read without having to do too much research.
図書・OA文献・雑誌論文を対象とした新しい学術情報検索サービス“Lalisio Literature”
研究者が未刊行論文などの灰色文献を共有できる、研究者のためのソーシャル・ネットワーキング・サービスを提供しているLalisioが、新しく図書・OA文献・雑誌論文を対象とした学術情報検索サービス“Lalisio Literature”を公開しました。検索機能として、ファセット方式による絞り込み機能が備わっています。現在は、OA文献としてarXivと PubMed Central、雑誌論文としてIngentaConnect、図書としてAmazon、Abebooksなど5社のデータ、合計約600万の書誌情報が対象ですが、今後拡大していく予定であり、すでにOCLCとは交渉中とのことです。ちなみに“Lalisio”とはラテン語で「小さなロバ」という意味の語で、知識を効率的に伝達するということで名づけられたとのことです。なお、このLalisioを運営している親会社はQ-Sensei社という米国の企業ですが、“Sensei”の語源については記載されていません。
Otro motor de búsqueda científico: Q-Sensei, de Lalisio
Un nuevo buscador científico-técnico se ha unido a los existentes para servir las necesidades y gustos de los científicos. http://literature.lalisio.com/ Proviene de una pequeña empresa cuyo principal servicio es Lalisio, una red social para científicos: http://www.lalisio.com/ Aunque sus 2 millones de artículos y libros no pueden compararse con la magnitud y la cobertura de gigantes como Scirus de Elsevier's o Google Scholar, el motor de búsqueda Q-Sensei tiene una orientación de metadatos que ofrece algunas posibilidades de búsqueda interesantes. Sugiere estrategias alternativas y permite a los usuarios reducir y re-enfocar los resultados de una forma intuitiva. Hasta ahora sólo realiza búsquedas de contenido de libre acceso de arXiv y de PubMed Central, pero un servicio paralelo también busca en IngentaConnect (en este caso los pdfs son de pago), y también libros.
New sci-tech search engine: Q-Sensei
Another sci-tech search engine has joined others to serve the needs and tastes of scientists. This one comes from a small company whose main service is the Lalisio social network for scientists. While the 2 million-plus article content nowhere near reaches the size and scope of behemoths such as Elsevier’s Scirus or Google Scholar, the Q-Sensei search engine (http://literature.lalisio.com/oai.html) has a metadata orientation that offers some interesting search capabilities. It can suggest alternative search strategies and allows searchers to narrow and focus their search results in a manner familiar to traditional searchers. At this point, it only searches open access content from ArXiv and PubMed Central, but parallel services also reach IngentaConnect and a series of book citation sources.
Science 2.0 Gains Another Search Engine: Q-Sensei From Lalisio
Barbara Quint reports in the 21 August 2008 InfoToday about another new search engine that has joined the ranks of other like Scirus and Google Scholar, to be used for searching topics in science and technology. Excerpt from her article:Another sci-tech search engine has joined others to serve the needs and tastes of scientists. This one comes from a small company whose main service is the Lalisio social network for scientists. While the 2 million-plus article content nowhere near reaches the size and scope of behemoths such as Elsevier’s Scirus or Google Scholar, the Q-Sensei search engine (http://literature.lalisio.com/oai.html) has a metadata orientation that offers some interesting search capabilities. It can suggest alternative search strategies and allows searchers to narrow and focus their search results in a manner familiar to traditional searchers. At this point, it only searches open access content from ArXiv and PubMed Central, but parallel services also reach IngentaConnect and a series of book citation sources.
Science 2.0 Gains Another Search Engine: Q-Sensei From Lalisio
"While the 2 million-plus article content nowhere near reaches the size and scope of behemoths such as Elsevier’s Scirus or Google Scholar, the Q-Sensei search engine (http://literature.lalisio.com/oai.html) has a metadata orientation that offers some interesting search capabilities."
Science 2.0 Gains Another Search Engine: Q-Sensei From Lalisio
Another sci-tech search engine has joined others to serve the needs and tastes of scientists. This one comes from a small company whose main service is the Lalisio social network for scientists. While the 2 million-plus article content nowhere near reaches the size and scope of behemoths such as Elsevier’s Scirus or Google Scholar, the Q-Sensei search engine (http://literature.lalisio.com/oai.html) has a metadata orientation that offers some interesting search capabilities. It can suggest alternative search strategies and allows searchers to narrow and focus their search results in a manner familiar to traditional searchers. At this point, it only searches open access content from ArXiv and PubMed Central, but parallel services also reach IngentaConnect and a series of book citation sources.
New Search Engine by Q-Sensei
New Search Engine by Q-Sensei 08/12/08. Lalisio, a social knowledge network, introduced a search and presentation engine from its parent company Q-Sensei. To further expand its offering, Lalisio has integrated arXiv and PubMed Central, two scholarly databases into its literature search service. arXiv provides access to papers from the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, quantitative biology, and statistics. PubMed Central is a digital archive of biomedical and life science journals and is run by the U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH). The patented search and presentation engine by Q-Sensei offers overviews of the contents of databases. It generates suggestions for search terms relevant to the current stage of the search. The engine connects various categories or "dimensions" of search suggestions allowing for multi-dimensional browsing.
New Search Engine by Q-Sensei
Lalisio, a social knowledge network, introduced a search and presentation engine from its parent company Q-Sensei. To further expand its offering, Lalisio has integrated arXiv and PubMed Central, two scholarly databases into its literature search service. arXiv provides access to papers from the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, quantitative biology, and statistics. PubMed Central is a digital archive of biomedical and life science journals and is run by the U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH). The patented search and presentation engine by Q-Sensei offers overviews of the contents of databases. It generates suggestions for search terms relevant to the current stage of the search. The engine connects various categories or "dimensions" of search suggestions allowing for multi-dimensional browsing.(http://literature.lalisio.com/oai.html)
Q-Sensei search engine offers free, direct access to over two million scholarly articles
In an effort to provide users with a more efficient way to search and navigate scholarly databases, Lalisio introduces the search and presentation engine from its parent company Q-Sensei. To further expand its offering, Lalisio has integrated arXiv and PubMed Central, two significant scholarly databases into its literature search service (http://literature.lalisio.com/oai.html). arXiv and PubMed Central combined allow users free and direct access to more than two million scholarly articles.
Lalisio secures seed money investment from bm-t beteiligungsmanagement thüringen gmbh
Following the Merger of German Lalisio GmbH and US-American QUASM Inc., bm-t Acquires 25% Stake of Lalisio; the Companies Have Agreed to Maintain Silence About the Purchase PriceERFURT, GERMANY - (MARKET WIRE) - Jul 17, 2007 - Lalisio, the social network for scholars worldwide, will use the investment to complete the integration of QUASM and Lalisio, to establish a stronger U.S. presence, and to integrate the QUASM Search and Presentation Engine into the established Lalisio website at www.lalisio.com. A larger follow-on round of financing is anticipated by the end of 2007 to fund an enhanced marketing plan and to explore additional applications of the QUASM Search and Presentation Engine in other commercial fields.
Lalisio secures seed money investment from bm-t beteiligungsmanagement thüringen gmbh
Following the Merger of German Lalisio GmbH and US-American QUASM Inc., bm-t Acquires 25% Stake of Lalisio; the Companies Have Agreed to Maintain Silence About the Purchase PriceERFURT, GERMANY -(Marketwire - July 17, 2007) - Lalisio, the social network for scholars worldwide, will use the investment to complete the integration of QUASM and Lalisio, to establish a stronger U.S. presence, and to integrate the QUASM Search and Presentation Engine into the established Lalisio website at www.lalisio.com. A larger follow-on round of financing is anticipated by the end of 2007 to fund an enhanced marketing plan and to explore additional applications of the QUASM Search and Presentation Engine in other commercial fields.
