What is Vetseek?

Vetseek is a search engine focussing on veterinary science and related topics.

Vetseek's contents

• Veterinary related part of the World-Wide-Web
• Veterinary related data of the so-called Deep-web: databases, full texts, catalogs

Why Vetseek?

There is something left common search engines won't manage

Google's index consists at present of approx. 10 billion web pages. That is clearly more than that Vetseek indexes. But this is exactly one of the advantages of Vetseek: by focussing on veterinary contents the hit rate remains small, without loosing relevant results.

Vetseek guarantees for each site in our index that these are only a few hops (steps of references) distant from a resource, which was intellectually described as to be of veterinary relevance, though of course it cannot be guaranteed that each site, which is to be found in Vetseek, is actually of veterinary relevance.

Vetseek indexes contents to which Google has no access, as there are veterinary catalogs, data bases as well as full texts.

Vetseek`s sources

Open Directory Project

The slogan of the largest Web listing, the Open Directory Project, is to build up "the most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web". By the work of several ten thousands of volunteers the largest existing Web listing was provided. Vetseek indexes the veterinary relevant parts of it.

Scholarly information

With beginning of publication of on-line theses (ETDs) printed issues were missing as catalog entries of the libraries. To bridge this gap document servers of the veterinary education and research institutions are crawled by Vetseek.

Vetseek uses publicly accessible publication servers and other means of the Open Archives Initiative.