2Dsearch: latest release including Lens.org and Yandex

It’s been a little while in the making, but I am delighted this week to announce a new release of 2Dsearch. This contains a variety of bug fixes and improvement, notably support for:

• Lens.org (a patent search facility and knowledge resource containing over 200m records)

• Yandex (5th largest search engine worldwide)

We’re particularly excited about the support for Lens.org, as it opens up all sorts of possibilities to find meta-analysis, systematic reviews, review articles of topics you are interested in regardless of your discipline.

Moreover, you can now use 2Dsearch to search visually across 8 different databases, and use automated translations for many more.  We’ve also made various improvements to the quality of the query parsing and the help/guidance provided on the messages tab, and added an in-app link to our tutorial videos. In addition, search strategies are now saved with an annotations field for your own notes and shared by name (rather than anonymously).

We’ve lots more planned for the next release, so if you’d like to help shape this and/or have comments of your own then do let us know. We’d be delighted to hear from you!