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SciQuest 2.0 Launched

Sciquest 2.0 has now been launched! SciQuest version 2.0 has been in development for the past 18 months and is now live.  SciQuest version 1.0 was launched in 2003 and at the time was cutting edge technology, however technology has moved on since then and as a consequence SciQuest 2.0 was developed.

Logging in

NZVA and NZVNA members should now log in using their VetSpace logins.  All other users should be able to use their existing usernames and passwords to access the site. If you are still having trouble, please contact help@sciquest.org.nz

SciQuest 2.0 is written using Open Source software.  SciQuest 2.0 is written inside the PHP-based Drupal framework using Postgres SQL as the database.  Searching is done using the ApacheSolr package which implements the Lucene indexing engine.

Benefits of SciQuest 2.0:

  • Ability to search across all publications at once
  • Fuzzy google-like search capability
  • Flexiable advanced search capability
  • Abiltiy to find an article from a reference
  • Imporved layout
  • Easier to find your way around
  • Integrated with the NZVA database
  • Open-url compliance
  • DOI complient
  • Export to Endnote functionality
  • Google search complient
  • Automatic Search-in-pdf functionaltiy

There are also many more benefits of SciQuest 2.0, most of which are administrative, instution or administrator-only functions.

While the development team have done thier best to migrate all data from SciQuest 1.0 to SciQuest 2.0 we expect that no data-migrtion is ever perfect so if you having trouble, please contact us at help@sciquest.org.nz