Live Search Academic was a
Web search engine for
scholarly literature
Academic publishing is the subfield of publishing which distributes academic research and scholarship. Most academic work is published in academic journal articles, books or theses. The part of academic written output that is not formally publ ...
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 for academic content, search results came directly from trusted sources, such as publishers of academic journals. Users were required to log in to access the service.
Live Search Academic was known as Windows Live Academic Search when the beta version was officially launched on April 11, 2006. The name had changed to Live Search Academic by December 6, 2006, when Microsoft announced the addition of millions of new articles, mainly in
biomedicine
Biomedicine (also referred to as Western medicine, mainstream medicine or conventional medicine) .
On May 23, 2008, Microsoft announced the end of Live Search Academic and
Live Search Books, both sites to be closed, with their results integrated into regular Search. The project scanned 750,000 books and indexed 80 million journal articles.
Live Search : Book search winding down
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Features
Live Search Academic indexed journal articles, conference proceedings, books, theses and dissertations from the following fields:
*Information and computer science
* Physics
*Electrical engineering
*Biomedicine
In addition to the normal search capabilities, Live Search Academic also featured:
*Sorting by relevance, date, author, journal and conference
*Slider bar to change level of details of search results
*Export citations for different formats, including BibTeX
BibTeX is reference management software for formatting lists of references. The BibTeX tool is typically used together with the LaTeX document preparation system. Within the typesetting system, its name is styled as . The name is a portmanteau ...
, RefWorks and EndNote
*Preview window on the right displaying the title, journal name, abstract summary, authors, volume, publication year, publisher, source and the article's digital object identifier
A digital object identifier (DOI) is a persistent identifier or handle used to uniquely identify various objects, standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). DOIs are an implementation of the Handle System; they a ...
See also
* Web of Science from the Institute for Scientific Information
* Live Search
* Microsoft Academic Search
* Scirus
* Scopus
* Windows Live
Windows Live is a discontinued brand name for a set of web services and software products developed by Microsoft as part of its software-as-a-service platform. Chief components under the brand name included web services (all of which were exposed ...
References
External links
Live Search Academic
Live Search Academic Blog
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Bibliographic databases and indexes
Academic
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, ...
Scholarly search services