Comments on: RefSeek for “academic information”

By: Hazel Edmunds

Hazel Edmunds — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:31:27 +0000

I rarely need to look for “proper” academic papers although I know the theory! I do, however, need to look at a lot of job vacancy sites and course information sites. It is, I find, as you have illustrated, very useful to have a slightly obscure search phrase for which you know the answer(s) – or know that there should BE answers.
I tend to use information management and look at the number of pure IT jobs / courses that come up – far too many is the usual result in the generalist datasets.

By: Karen Blakeman

Karen Blakeman — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:16:16 +0000

Thanks for the pointer Roddy. All these projects sound great in theory, but in practice I still find myself going back to the subscription databases such as Chem Abs for serious, heavy duty research. I get to the information much more quickly.

By: Roddy MacLeod

Roddy MacLeod — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:10:43 +0000

RefSeek sounds similar in concept to http://digref.org/