Microsoft Academic Search was a research project and academic search engine retired in 2012. It relaunched in 2016 as Academic.
History
Microsoft launched a search tool called Windows Live Academic Search in 2006 to directly compete with Google Scholar.
It was renamed
Live Search Academic
Live Search Academic was a Web search engine for scholarly literature that existed from April 2006 to May 2008; it was part of Microsoft's Live Search group of services. It was similar to Google Scholar, but rather than crawling the Internet ...
after its first year and then discontinued two years later.
In 2009, Microsoft Research Asia Group launched a beta tool called Libra in 2009, which was for the purpose of algorithms research in object-level vertical search,
,
entity linking In natural language processing, entity linking, also referred to as named-entity linking (NEL), named-entity disambiguation (NED), named-entity recognition and disambiguation (NERD) or named-entity normalization (NEN) is the task of assigning a uni ...
, and
data visualization.
Libra was redirected to the MAS service by 2011 and contained 27.2 million records for books, conference papers, and journals.
Although largely functional, the service was not intended to be a production website and ceased to be developed, as was originally intended when the research goals of the project had been met.
The service stopped being updated in 2012.
The fact that this decline was not reported on earlier indicated to the authors that the service was largely ignored by academics and bibliometricians alike.
In July 2014, Microsoft Research announced that
Microsoft Academic was evolving from a research project to a production service, and would be integrating with Microsoft's flagship search engine,
Bing
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, and its intelligent personal assistant service,
Cortana. “By growing Microsoft Academic Search from a research effort to production,”
icrosoft Research's KuansanWang says, “our goal is to make Bing-powered Cortana the best personal research assistant for our users".
See also
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Microsoft Academic
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Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes ...
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CiteSeerX
CiteSeerX (formerly called CiteSeer) is a public search engine and digital library for scientific and academic papers, primarily in the fields of computer and information science.
CiteSeer's goal is to improve the dissemination and access of ac ...
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Scirus
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List of academic databases and search engines
References
External links
Microsoft Academic SearchProject description on Microsoft Research websiteMicrosoft Academic Search dataset on Azure MarketplaceMicrosoft Libra
Internet properties with year of establishment missing
Internet properties disestablished in 2012
Online databases
Microsoft websites
Scholarly search services
Bibliographic databases and indexes
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