Microsoft Academic Search – don’t get your hopes up
Posted by Karen Blakeman on October 26th, 2009
Microsoft Academic Search has been made a public beta. Before you get too excited this is not Academic Live resurrected. This is a project from Microsoft Research Asia and although the help screen says “Find top scientists, conferences, and journals in a specific field” it only seems to cover computing and the Internet.
The visual explorer is interesting – you need to install sliverlight – and the Advanced Search is reasonable, but if like me you were expecting a worthy competitor to Google Scholar you will be disappointed. But if you are interested in conferences and papers on computing and Internet technologies then give it a go.
November 12th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
[...] ResourceShelf wrote in their review of it, and read about some of its limitations, as described by Karen Blakeman - “It only seems to cover computing and the [...]
December 31st, 2009 at 4:20 am
it seems it has interesting “publish citation trend” feature in their recent update. go to an authors pages to see it.
also, it appears to update new papers every week.