The ISCA Archive includes public web pages providing the titles, author lists and abstracts for papers presented at ISCA events. I have put a Google search box that can be used to search those web pages at http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~gelbart/pub-links.html. Perhaps it would be worth adding a search box like this to the ISCA Students web site until more powerful searching of the Archive is available? The HTML implementing the search box uses the Google SiteSearch template from http://www.google.com/services/free.html.

This search box does lacks many features that Google Scholar or a custom ISCA SAC search engine could provide for searching the ISCA Archive. An ISCA SAC search engine could do whatever we build into it, for example (1) allow the user to choose to search only specific fields on the web pages such as author, institution, conference, etc., (2) generate BibTeX entries, (3) allow the user to search within a date range. Google Scholar would (1) allow the user to choose to search only the author field (I'm not sure about the institution or conference fields), (2) generate BibTeX entries, (3) allow the user to search within a date range, (4) provide citation tracking so we could see what papers have cited a particular paper (I find this citation tracking feature very useful in my literature searches), and (5) do full-text indexing of the papers including (according to an email I received from Google) optical character recognition of the older PDFs which contain scanned images.