ReportLinker is a new search engine specializing in OA information for market research. The problem is that much of this OA information is corporate spin and PR, useless or misleading for investors. ReportLinker promises to find and highlight the most relevant information. From today's press release:
Reportlinker is a vertical search engine dedicated to open access market research reports. On a single screen, it gathers more than 1,2 million reports, published by trusted sources (governments, embassies, national statistics agencies, trade unions)....
General public tools promote merchant content, boosted by search marketing (SM) and search engine optimization (SEO) techniques, making relevant open access information more difficult to find....
User can now search the long tail of free market research without the noise of not so relevant merchant results. The professional research engine also includes in its index many results from the deep web that are not even accessible through general search engines....
PS: First-level searching is free but clicking through to results is limited to paying customers. For paying customers, the default is to limit searches to OA content. But users can request to search non-OA content whose links lead to pay-per-view screens.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/01/2007 08:11:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
