Scitopia search engine adds six new content partners

Scitopia.org , the free, federated search portal created by leading science and technology societies, has added six new content partners - the largest content addition since the site launched in 2007.

The addition of The Royal Society , Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), International Union of Crystallography (IUCr), Audio Engineering Society (AES), and the Society for Information Display (SID) brings the total number of digital libraries searched by scitopia.org to 21.

“Our goal is to continually improve the user’s experience with scitopia.org by adding new content from high quality science and technology partners,” said Barbara Lange, Director of Product Line Management and Publishing Business Development for IEEE, a charter partner of scitopia.org. “This group of new partners is particularly important because they expand the topic areas that can be studied with scitopia.org and offer users a deeper historical archive.”

The Royal Society, the national academy of science of the UK and considered to be at the cutting edge of scientific progress, deepens scitopia.org’s archive to 1665, with some of the most significant scientific papers ever published. Among them are Isaac Newton’s invention of the reflecting telescope and the first research paper published by Stephen Hawking. Its digital library, along with those of AES, the world’s only professional society devoted exclusively to audio technology, and IMechE, the U.K.'s qualifying body for mechanical engineers, is available now through scitopia.org. RSC, Europe’s largest organization aimed at the advancement of chemical sciences, and IUCr, the world’s leading society aimed at the study of atomic and molecular structure, will have their digital libraries available through scitopia.org in late spring. The digital library of SID, an international organization of professionals in all of the technical and business disciplines that relate to display research, design, manufacturing, applications, marketing, and sales, will be available in summer.

Scitopia.org’s unique federated search engine, developed by Deep Web Technologies, is designed to accommodate continuously growing content without slowing the search process. Each partner uses a standardized XML gateway to handle search queries, resulting in faster, more accurate results when compared to typical federated searches.

Search efficiency and precision are essential because of scitopia.org’s vast content pool — primarily peer-reviewed journal content and conference proceedings — spanning 350 years of scholarship.

Libraries around the world — including the Library of Congress, Stanford University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and libraries in Australia, Ireland and Italy — include links to scitopia.org from their web sites so patrons can use the service. To access Scitopia directly, visit www.scitopia.org .

About scitopia.orgThe federated vertical search portal scitopia.org is the product of the imagination and collaboration of 21 leading science and technology societies. A single search allows users to scan the entire electronic libraries of the Acoustical Society of America , American Geophysical Union ; American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ; American Institute of Physics ; American Physical Society ; American Society of Civil Engineers ; American Society of Mechanical Engineers ; Audio Engineering Society ; AVS , ECS ; IEEE ; Institute of Physics Publishing ; Institution of Mechanical Engineers ; International Union of Crystallography ; Optical Society of America ; Royal Society ; Royal Society of Chemistry ; Society of Automotive Engineers ; Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ; Society for Information Display ; and SPIE . Scitopia.org expects to continually add new partners that can contribute significant content to the portal.