Yahoo Search: Deep Searching

Flap finds research difficult in dental, medical and scientific publications because so many publishers require costly subscriptions or access through university databases (although abstracts are generally available through PubMed or HubMed . The same can be said for regular MSM materials offered on-line on a “for subscription basis” only. Naturally, searches for key words through these “subscription firewalls” are very limited.

Now, comes along Yahoo! Search Subscriptions.

What is Yahoo! Search Subscriptions beta?

Yahoo! Search Subscriptions beta is a new way to search the subscription content that’s important to you. By partnering with publishers, Yahoo! is providing the convenience of a single place to access and find all relevant content, whether it’s generally available web content or content from your personal subscriptions.

How will using Yahoo! Search Subscriptions be helpful to me?

Yahoo! Search Subscriptions expands your web search experience by enabling you to find relevant information from the web and your online subscriptions. Yahoo! Search Subscriptions also saves you time with a single search that finds relevant information from multiple sources. You can search a combination of generally available content and subscription content, or search a combination of different subscriptions

What subscription content sources can I search?

You can search subscription content from a range of publications, including Consumer Reports, Forrester Research, FT.com, IEEE, the New England Journal of Medicine, TheStreet.com and the Wall Street Journal. Yahoo! intends to continually increase the selection of searchable subscription content sources. The program will also include ACM, Factiva and Lexis-Nexis in the near future. The complete list of available sources can be found on the Subscriptions Preferences page.

Soon, we will have full access to the world’s information at our fingertips and keyboards.

The information explosion continues.