Live Search Academic was a

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for

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that existed from April 2006 to May 2008; it was part of

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group of services. It was similar to

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, 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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Live Search Academic indexed journal articles, conference proceedings, books, theses and dissertations from the following fields: *Information and computer science *

Physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

*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 RefWorks is a web-based commercial reference management software package. It is produced by Ex Libris, a ProQuest company. RefWorks LLC was founded in 2001 as a partnership between Earl B. Beutler (development and customer service) and Cambri ...

and

EndNote A note is a string of text placed at the bottom of a page (paper), page in a book or document or at the end of a chapter, volume, or the whole text. The note can provide an author's comments on the main text or citations of a reference work in ...

*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 ...

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