Best online resources to find relevant high-quality articles of scientific interest?

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Dear Colleagues,

 

I would appreciate advice on the options - search portals, specialist

engines, databases, etc. - that you/your colleagues use to source

DIGITAL articles of high scientific quality.

 

My main search options for articles/abstracts on the science

databases are:

 

(a) Integrated online OVID/SilverPlatter interface to CAB Abstracts,

Biosis and Medline [at web5.silverplatter.com/webspirs/start.ws ];

 

(b) Scirus (occasionally) at:

www.scirus.com/search_simple_boolean/

 

© I know of, but do not use, the ISI Web of Science

 

For general WWW searches, I use:

 

(a) Google Advanced Engine [www.google.com/advanced_search] -

my favourite

 

(b) If Google does not succeed [and that is rare], I try special

search software by Copernic or WebFerret [downloadable free from

the WWW] - find them on Google

 

PS: Have any of you tried to source online technical material

written in Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian? If yes, I would

appreciate your comments on what you regard as the the best

commercial software for high-quality translations from those

languages into English.

 

PPS. In cooperation with Systran, Altavista has an online translator

called Babelfish [ http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr ]. This

is a FREE service, but can handle only short blocks of text and

can give only a crude translation to or from the following languages:

English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish.

 

Babelfish can also handle 4 Asian languages - Chinese, Japanese,

Korean and Russian - but with worse accuracy than it can handle

European languages.

 

When using Babelfish to translate Webpages, it is best to use two

separate Browser Windows, one to locate the pages of interest

[say via Google] and the other to run Babellfish.

 

 

Best regards,

 

 

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