I hope everyone has weathered the storm well. Here’s your weekly resource spotlight, only a day late!

Scirus is a web search engine specifically for information in the sciences. It searches the whole web, filtering out sites that are not science related and including open access .pdf journal articles and other files that traditional search engines would miss. Their example — if you search Google for REM you get mostly hits related to the band. Scirus returns hits related to REM sleep. Scirus indexes over 200 million web pages, as well as documents and full-text articles from PubMed, LexisNexis, Caltech, NASA, MIT OpenCourseWare, ScienceDirect, and other sources.

The advanced search allows you to search by title, journal title, author, author affiliation, and ISSN, in addition to the basic keyword search. It also allows you to limit your results by date range, type of publication, type of file (.html, .pdf, etc.), preferred source (such as PubMed), and general scientific subject area (Biological Sciences, etc.)

Scirus provides an intermediate step between Google and a subscription database search.

This is the first in a series of posts highlighting relevent resources at Middleton Library, both electronic and print. A new resource spotlight will be posted on Tuesday of every week. Please check back frequently to make sure you don’t miss something that might be helpful to you.

This week’s resource is Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide, an electronic subscription database.Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide is a multidisciplinary database focusing on articles and studies involving wildlife and animal ecology. It covers the period from 1935 (and some earlier) to present. It includes Wildlife Review Abstracts, Swiss Wildlife Information Service, Wildlife Database, BIODAC, Waterfowl and Wetlands Bibliography, IUCN – the World Conservation Union, Natural & Cultural Heritage of Africa, Afro-Tropical Bird Information Retrieval Database, covering topics such as wildlife management, animal behavior, habitat preservation, pesticides/pollution, fisheries management, population ecology, forestry, physiology, animal disease, genetics, life history, and more. The advanced search allows searching by institutional author, author affiliation, taxonomy, geographical area, publication type, document type, and publication year range, among other fields.