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The Harvard Catalyst search box just became more powerful

Posted August 27, 2009

Looking for a particular Harvard-affiliated researcher? An expert on a research topic? A publication by a Harvard-affiliated author? Look no further than the Harvard Catalyst search box.

The Harvard Catalyst website now includes a new, more powerful search engine that makes it easy to search across the site’s pages, applications, and databases. Developed by the Harvard Catalyst Bioinformatics Program and VectorC, the new Harvard Catalyst search engine offers:

• Semantic searching. Search recognizes what you type, and suggests related concepts and topics from the National Library of Medicine’s MeSH subject vocabulary.
• Auto suggestion. Search tries to anticipate your query as you type it.
• Better integration with website applications. Search runs your query against the data available in Profiles, Medvane, HarvardTrials, and Core Facilities. Data from other applications will be incorporated in the future.
• Results organized by category. Search groups your results into people, publications, clinical trials, and facilities.

Search also suggests topics related to your query, and lets you run it against external resources (i.e., Google, PubMed, and the Countway Library website).

“The first version of the search engine only allowed text searching, and did not reliably index applications on the website like Profiles or HarvardTrials,” noted Matvey Palchuk, MD, MS, a research associate in the Harvard Medical School Center for Biomedical Informatics and leader of the development team that designed and built the new search engine. “Even though the search box looks the same, I think people, particularly those who tried it in the past, will find that the new search capabilities make finding what you are looking for on the site much easier and the results returned more useful.”

The new search engine is available now on the Harvard Catalyst website; just use the search box found on the upper right corner of every page. To learn more, visit About Search.