1. Searching Proprietary Scholarly Content –
Moderator’s notes
Dr. Péter Jacsó
Dept. of Information & Computer Sciences
University of Hawaii
Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting
June 3, 2004 San Francisco
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jacso/conferences.htm (2)

2. Speakers
§ Anurag Archarya, Principal Software Engineer, Google
§ Judy Luther, President, Informed Strategies
§ Ammy Vogtlander, Scirus Project Manager, Elsevier Science

3. Search & Discovery Tools
for scholarly info
§ Multiple sources, multiple publishers
§ Invisible to Web-wide search engines
§ Rendered in HTML/PDF on request
§ Spiders don’t ask questions
§ Integrating the popular and the healthy information
discovery and search tools
Jacsó

4. Federated, Integrated, Meta, Multi, Poly
Search Engines
§ It is as easy as herding cats, but …
§ Let them discover your best & expensive sources
§ Good old directories are not enough
§ Instant gratification thirst quenching
§ In …. they trust, and only in …
§ Sisyphusian efforts monotheistic adulation
Jacsó

5. John Regazzi’s Survey for NFAIS talk

6. How To Do It? –
(Remember: You can lead a horse to the river, but…)
Alternative Approaches
§ Send patrons to resources (tell where water may be)
§ Advise resources for query (tell which rivers have water)
§ Lead the patrons to the resource (and hope they will drink)
§ Bring them insta-quenchers & the sites (cups of water and
the buckets [for more and/or purified water])
Jacsó

7. eXTRA – Peter’s PolySearch Engines
Jacsó

8. Energy PolySearch Engine
Jacsó

9. iop-test-jacso

10. Google CrossRef vs. Native Engines
Jacsó