There is a huge new search tool available on the web for engineers and scientists, Scitopia.Org. This service allows one to search detailed abstracts from fifteen of the major engineering societies, plus government and patent data. The service also includes the ability to use RSS!
You have to try this service! The SciTech Librarian Blog has a good overview. Here is a brief excerpt from that blog:
"Scitopia.org is a "free federated vertical search tool", covering the digital libraries of 15 major scientific and technical societies. Additionally, Scitopia searches patents from the USPTO, Japan Patent Office, and esp@cenet (European), and the US DOE Information Bridge. At the launch, presenters from IEEE and ASME noted that the philosophy underlining this new search engine includes: "get past search to research", and "reduce distraction" by eliminating "noise", i.e., irrelevant search results. To date, approximately 3,000,000 documents have been indexed, with one or more of the societies' coverage dating back 150 years. The search engine is free to the public, but is designed for researchers. No new subscriptions are required to get access to the full-text of these documents, provided your institution already subscribes to one or more of the societies' digital libraries and/or packages."
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