[PLUG] New curated search engine: neeva.com

Daniel Ortiz elamigodanielortiz at gmail.com
Sun Sep 5 13:25:13 UTC 2021


https://www.mojeek.com/about/
This gives some reasons why it is better.

On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 8:18 AM Daniel Ortiz <elamigodanielortiz at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Wouldn't mojeek be a better search engine than Google? I am no search
> engine expert, but it could be checked out:
> https://www.mojeek.com
>
> On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 7:58 AM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 5 Sep 2021, Mike C. wrote:
>>
>> > Lastly, If I'm looking for research papers, case studies, etc, I've yet
>> to
>> > find a better search engine than Google Scholar. But unfortunately, much
>> > of that information is behind paywalls. Which is a whole nother problem
>> > that desperately needs addressing.
>>
>> Hi Mike!
>>
>> While libraries are still not allowing interlibrary loans because of the
>> continuing pandemic, the Multnomah County library used to reach out to
>> other
>> libraries (many at universities) for scanned copies of scientific journal
>> articles not directly available from MultCoLib. I've not had need for this
>> service since the pandemic started I don't know if it's still a viable
>> source for reseasrch, but it might well be. At a minimum, access to
>> periodicals to which the library subscribes should still work.
>>
>> Another alternative is Research Gate <http://www.researchgate.net/>.
>> Often
>> an article is available for download from the site, otherwise you can send
>> the contact author a request for a copy from the site's web site. I've had
>> requests for copies of my pubished research via reserch net and have sent
>> them to the requestors.
>>
>> Stay well,
>>
>> Rich
>>
>



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