What is Scitopia.org?

The federated vertical search portal scitopia was created through the collaboration of 15 leading science and technology societies.  Searching for a better way to help researchers quickly get to the quality content they need, these publishers developed a way to the research most cited in scholarly work and patents.

Scitopia searches the entire electronic libraries of the leading voices in major science and technology disciplines and provides relevant results, without the noise of other Internet search engines. More than three million documents, including peer-reviewed journal content and technical conference papers, spanning 150 years of science and technology can be searched through the site.

Scitopia is powered by Deep Web Technologies’ Explorit Research Accelerator federated search engine.

What is a federated search?

A federated search consists of a real time search through a disparate group of databases. The user enters a set of query parameters, which are broadcast to the selected databases; the results are collated and presented back to the user in a unified format.

Federated search is distinct from traditional search engines, which use robots to continuously index and crawl through web-based content, retrieving results from previously cached documents that match the query terms.

Federated search portals form part of what is also known as the invisible web, which contains documents that cannot be accessed by traditional search engines due to limitations in crawler technology.

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