SciELO Electronic Library

SciELO is a very good library of scientific publications, mostly from researchers in South American countries. It has articles in Spanish, Portuguese and English, and also has search engine interfaces in each of those languages. I’ve found it an excellent alternative resource for finding articles that do not show up in the customary search engines such as provided by my university’s libary catalogue. It contains about half a million articles.

The SciELO search engine is quite flexible. For instance, if one wants to find articles in Spanish or English, about diode (juntura) models which use the Lambert W function, one can use this search term: ((diode) OR (juntura)) AND (Lambert)

Here is a link to the English language search interface:
http://www.scielo.org/php/index.php

And a link to a Wikipedia article with some background about the project:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciELO

And, so we have a nice picture to head up this post, here is the SciELO logo (of course, copyright owned by them):

I like the pun in their name!

Best wishes,
Ken Roberts
31-July-2015