Scirus.com Updates

Scirus.com New Interface
For those of you who are still not familiar with Scirus.com - this is the Best Science & Technology Search Engine, an Elsevier product.
The Scirus development team worked closely with Elsevier's User-Centered Design Group to create a new user interface design. The clean, refreshed interface will enable you to find the precise scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data you need more quickly and easily than ever before.

One of the main aims of the re-design was to take powerful, but less frequently used features from the Scirus Advanced Search page and make them more accessible as post-search refinement options. This change will give Scirus users the power of Advanced Search, without the complexity, in a single click.
Features of the re-design include:

* Visibility: More search results are immediately visible ''above the fold'', by improving the use of screen real estate

* Intuitiveness: Highly appreciated features are moved to areas of the screen most suitable for the human eye, following accepted HCI guidelines

* Exposure: The full range of content sources is further exposed and highlighted through the use of new navigator functionality

* Ease of use: Batch selection of items for export, print or saving has been greatly simplified

Scirus Topic Pages continue to grow

Scirus Topic Pages is a freely accessible wiki-like platform where topic experts, upon invitation, create synopses of the state of research around particular topics and also recommend links to relevant reading material. The Scirus search index complements these recommendations by suggesting relevant articles and web pages based on topic-title keyword analysis. Examples of the latest Topic Pages include:
- "Obesity and the Brain" by Dr. Angelo Del Parigi
- "Laboratory determination of Listeria monocytogenes virulence" by Dr. Dongyou Liu.

After implementing the Editorial Policy for the management of the Scirus Topic Pages platform in January, the Scirus team has now finalized a Creative Commons license, which allows users to share and adapt the information on the Topic Pages freely for non-commercial purposes. Both the Editorial Policy and the licence can be viewed from links at the bottom of the Scirus Topic Pages homepage.