I seem to recall when Google Scholar came out that they had a set of example queries. Maybe this was another search engine that did this. Anyway, a set of sampl

I seem to recall when Google Scholar came out that they had a set of example queries. Maybe this was another search engine that did this. Anyway, a set of sample queries with results that you're proud of would be nice to see on scholr.ly, because apparently I can't figure out how to use it. I tried some queries and the results were awful. query: author:"george church" ... I see only one publication, titled "registered trademark of AAAS. Synthetic Gene Networks That Count" which must be wrong. query: author:"george whitesides" ... again only one publication ("New Editorial Board Chair"), and a coauthor named "Dropspots Microdevice" http://scholr.ly/person/6263228/dropspots-microdevice http://scholr.ly/person/6263228/dropspots-microdevice Naturally, his affiliation is listed as "for Lab on a Chip". query: "Rapid casting of patterned vascular networks for perfusable engineered three-dimensional tissues" (the title of a recent paper) returned a few publication results, none of which were the publication in question. It was in Nature Materials, so it's not exactly obscure. query: doi:10.1038/nmat3357 ... no results found. Hmm. Well, I don't know how to use this site. Here's what I really want: * I want a public domain, reusable index of all papers everywhere. I want bibtex, xml, json, and all the other terrible formats for keeping track of those papers. * I want working Zotero translators that can properly extract metadata from all science publishing sites. And I just want this data instead of having to fish it out of a search engine. * I want to be told where I can find pdf files hosted on sites, so that I don't have to send emails begging for copies. Google Scholar does this pretty well. * Actual data about which papers cite what, instead of trusting the "cited by" links/results in Google Scholar. Also, a "this paper cites..." feature so that I don't have to bother digging out the doi numbers from the bibliography myself. * Supplementary documents are evil, but they exist and they should be immediately available next to or with any paper. Edit: * An index of which libraries at which universities are subscribed to which publishers. If anyone wants to contribute to this information, please go to your library's ezproxy service (ezproxy.lib.whoever.edu:2048/menu or sometimes on a different subdomain) and copy/paste to kanzure@gmail.com for aggregation. This is useful for understanding which universities are likely to have access to which papers. Each service listed also has either partial/incomplete subscription and very rarely full subscription, but getting a list of the exact access rights is even harder to squirrel out. Tracking down access to papers is a pain in the butt. ILL is silly and costs way too much ($0.30/query say whaaat). * I also want an academic aggregator that has the balls to go after OCLC, WorldCat, etc. I wish Bill Gates would just buy the entire scientific publishing industry, but alas! I should emphasize this OCLC alternative would be open-access. Mendeley doesn't count, I can't even get their data out. I'm definitely neglecting some other major issues..