Springer Exemplar. SearchEdu.com. AuthorMapper - Scientific Research and Author Locations Globally. Wissenschaftliche Suchmaschine BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine: Standardsuche. Chemical Information in Scirus and BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) Regina B. Bendig Sciences Liaison Librarian H.G. Thode Library of Science and Engineering McMaster University Hamilton, Ontariobendigr@mcmaster.ca Copyright 2009, Regina B.
Bendig. Used with permission. Abstract The author sought to determine to what extent the two search engines, Scirus and BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engines), would be useful to first-year university students as the first point of searching for chemical information. Introduction The use of the Internet as the first source of information among university students is ubiquitous (De Rosa 2005). A number of studies have discussed, some of them in depth, the content and the various search features of BASE (Lohmeyer 2005; Pieper and Summann 2006; Summann and Wolf 2005; Summann and Wolf 2006; Pieper and Wolf 2007) and Scirus (McKiernan 2005; Tompson 2007; Fitzpatrick 2008; Jasco 2008).
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) Figure 1: BASE Basic Search Screen Figure 2: BASE Advanced Search Screen.