• by Paul Gough , November 24, 2003

LookSmart has thrown its hat into the field of full-text article searching.

The San Francisco-based company launched today a service that allows Internet users to search more than 700 publications to find 3.5 million articles. It replaces LookSmart's former FindArticles publication database.

The content is free and includes magazines like Variety and Sunset, along with Vegetarian Journal, Shape and the Journal of Respiratory Diseases as well as other medical journals. The content starts in 1998 and LookSmart said it's often not available at the Web sites put together by the publications themselves.

Search starts at LookSmart's Articles tab, which can be used to check a magazine title by issue or within a publication.

"With these helpful features, users will be able to find anything from medical papers to travel profiles, and from literary journals to celebrity biographies quickly and easily," said Peter Adams, chief technology officer at LookSmart.

-- Paul J. Gough