Cross-Publisher Full-Text Search

In order to make published scholarly content available for the first time for free, full-text interpublisher searchability, a group of more than 40 leading journal publishers, including the American Society of Civil Engineers, are participating in a CrossRef Search Pilot through the end of 2005.

Through a unique, reciprocal arrangement between Google and CrossRef, this Pilot launches a typical Google search, but filters the result set to the scholarly research content from participating publishers, with the intent of reducing the noise produced by general web searches.

Google has indexed the full text of scholarly journal articles on the publishers' web sites through a CrossRef gateway. Users may submit searches from CrossRef Search Pilot boxes on participating publishers' sites. Results are returned from Google using the Google search and ranking algorithms, and using the article's DOI whenever possible to link from the search results to the published article.

Please take a moment to tell us about your experience using the CrossRef Search service by completing the questions on this survey.

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