October 30, 2009

New Academic Search From Microsoft

Here they Come Again? Microsoft Research Launches Academic Search Database (Beta), ResourceShelf (Oct 26)

Hard to believe but Microsoft (this time Microsoft Research) is providing a beta Academic search of journals, papers, conferences. Microsoft closed Academic Live a couple of years ago. Now there is this new collection of 3.3 million academic papers in computer science.

http://academic.research.microsoft.com/

It would be nice to have more information - about coverage, sources, future - but for now we'll just enjoy it. There is a basic "advanced search."

Welcome back Microsoft.

Posted by Gwen at October 30, 2009 10:13 PM