page_title: Shamra Search Engine
section_title: Scholars Search
hierarchical_section_title: Shamra Search Engine / Products and services / Scholars Search
caption_attribution_description: العربية: شعار شمرا اكاديميا
context_page_description: Shamra Search Engine is a Syrian web search that was launched on September 6, 2015. Shamra was built using Information Retrieval technologies and Arabic NLP. The name Shamra was inspired by the village of Ras Shamra where Ugarit alphabets was discovered in 1929.
  In March 2019, Shamra Search Engine was presented by the ministry of communication and technology in Syria as a show-case of the digital development in Syria during the meeting of the United Nations - Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia.
context_section_description: Shamra Academia was launched on 27 December 2015, a few months after the launch of Shamra search engine.
  Shamra Academia enables search in the Academic publications from scientific publishers in the Syrian universities. The publications are first indexed into categories, each indexed item contains the title of the publication in Arabic and English languages together with its abstract and meta information about authors, date of publications, and the main keywords.
  In 2017, there were around 3,913 indexed scientific papers in the platform, while in the 13th of July 2020, the number increased to 8,666 as shown in the service homepage
caption: Shamra Academia Logo
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