The Scirus search tool is designed to help you locate science and engineering articles more effectively using USC's subscription eresources and other sources.
Scirus filters out non-scientific and non-technical information when it crawls the Web in response to your basic or advanced search keys. The publisher Elsevier created Scirus, so it also searches Elsevier's Science Direct ejournal titles -- USC subscribes to hundreds of these -- and Scirus is a good way to search them all at once. In addition, Scirus crawls a number of free document repositories, like arXiv.org, so you can access technical preprints and reprints which can be unexpectedly rich information resources. Give it a try at: https://www.elsevier.com/. (Remember, if you are searching from off campus, login via the proxy server first, so you can get right to all the Science Direct journals.