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 pub ...
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.
On May 23, 2008, Microsoft announced the end of Live Search Academic and
Live Search Books
Live Search Books was a search service for books launched in December 2006, part of Microsoft's Live Search range of services. Microsoft was working with a number of libraries, including the British Library, to digitize books and make them searcha ...
, 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, 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
See also
* Web of Science from the Institute for Scientific Information
* Live Search
* Microsoft Academic Search
* Scirus
Scirus was a comprehensive science-specific search engine, first launched in 2001. Like CiteSeerX and Google Scholar, it was focused on scientific information. Unlike CiteSeerX, Scirus was not only for computer sciences and IT and not all of the ...
* Scopus
* Windows Live
References
External links
Live Search Academic
Live Search Academic Blog
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Bibliographic databases and indexes
Academic
Scholarly search services