BizSeer is a publicly available vertical digital library and search engine hosted at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business that focuses on academic business documents.

SmealSearch crawls the web and harvests, catalogs, and indexes academic business documents. It is based on the computer and information science engine, CiteSeer.IST, initially developed at NEC Research Institute by Kurt Bollacker, Lee Giles and Steve Lawrence and now hosted at Penn State.

The search engine crawls websites of academia, commerce, research institutes, government agencies, etc. for academic business documents, including published articles, working papers, white papers, consulting reports, etc. For certain documents, SmealSearch only indexes and stores the hyperlinks to those documents. BizSeer attempts to generate a citation analysis for all the academic articles harvested and ranks them in order of their citation rates (the most cited articles are listed first) similar to the ranking of CiteSeer and the Google Scholar.

BizSeer has many unique features:

Automatically gathers and indexes specific information such as author, title, abstract, and citations.

Performs keyword searches on the full content of all documents in the database.

Uses citation analysis to identify the most influential articles.

Keeps up to date by actively crawling and accepting article submissions from users.

I searched for our local school at the University of Virginia, the Darden Graduate School of Business:

Wildlife and Roads is a resource for mitigating the effects of roads on wildlife using wildlife crossings such as overpasses, underpasses, and crosswalks. A dynamic part of this website will be the ability to search databases for pertinent information. This page will provide four different resources:




1. A search engine for learning about existing and planned wildlife passages in North America

2. An interactive map of wildlife passages across North America

3. A search engine for literature reviewed in an annotated bibliography related to roads and wildlife

4. Links to appropriate websites related to roads and wildlife

About this project:

This site is the result of the work of many individuals. There is a core of 10 ecologists, engineers, and a webmaster that have made this site possible. These people in turn have worked with others who have assisted with this research. Our sponsoring organization, NCHRP of the National Academies oversees a panel of reviewers for this project as well.