Scirus and CrossRef announce web services partnership

Elsevier has announced that Scirus, its free, science-specific search engine, has signed an agreement with CrossRef, the cross-publisher linking network with over 2200 participating publishers and societies, to become a Web Services Search Partner. The partnership allows Scirus to collect metadata from hundreds of participating publishers via CrossRef's new Web Services protocol. This combined approach improves how researchers, academics, students, and librarians search authoritative, scientific published content