China Launches Academic Journal Search Engine

China officially launched cnki.net, a search engine for China’s first online database of academic journals, last week.

• cnki.net is a national web project of search program that cost 345 million Chinese yuan.
• cnki.net provides contents of 6642 academic periodicals as research sources to China’s Internet users.
• This academic web project has been carried out by Qinghua University and Qinghua Tongfang Internet Technology Co Ltd.

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Google offers vertical search on books and academics:

• Book search
• Scholar search
• Advanced scholar search