Scirus

Scirus was an English science search engine Elsevier Publishing (Amsterdam ) for mainly scientific, technical and medical publications and existed from 1 April 2001 until early 2014. The dataset, which was of Scirus searchable, included at the end about 400 million scientific documents and web pages in full text. Also, references were collected, so that Scirus was a citation simultaneously. The abstracts of the publications found were usually free of charge, many full texts, however, were chargeable. Sites of special scientific service providers (Science Direct, Medline, BioMed Central, the U.S. Patent Office ) and universities were among the preferred sites visited by Scirus. The search engine worked with the technology of FAST.

Scirus was named after an ancient Greek seer from Dodona.

Scirus beginning of 2014 has been set.