The message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments: Shortcut to: http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041115/full/041115-13.html News Published online: 18 November 2004; | doi:10.1038/news041115-13 Scientists get their own Google Declan Butler New search engine ranks papers by importance, and finds the free versions. Google Scholar searches for scientific articles instead of web pages. C Google Media box Imagine searching the Internet and being able to restrict your results to academic texts. Today Google launched a free search engine that aims to do just that. Google Scholar searches only journal articles, theses, books, preprints, and technical reports across any area of research. A test version of the search engine is available at http://scholar.google.com, so you can try it out. In a search for the phrase "human genome", for example, a normal Google web search throws back 450,000 or so hits, with genome centres and databases and other websites ranked top. Note: To protect against computer viruses, e-mail programs may prevent sending or receiving certain types of file attachments. Check your e-mail security settings to determine how attachments are handled. begin 666 041115-13.url M6TEN=&5R;F5T4VAO<G1C=71=#0I54DP]:'1T<#HO+W=W=RYN871U<F4N8V]M M+VYE=W,O,C P-"\P-#$Q,34O9G5L;"\P-#$Q,34M,3,N:'1M; T*36]D:69I 7960],S!%-3DY03(W-40Q0S0P,35"#0H` ` end