Review: Péter's Digital Reference Shelf Looks at Microsoft Academic Search
Back in October, 2009 (we believe it was during Internet Librarian), you might remember a ResourceShelf post where we first mentioned the relaunch (of a new, improved, and limited version) of Microsoft Academic Search. It was titled, "Here they Come Again? Microsoft Research Launches Academic Search Database (Beta)," and provide a quick overview of what the service offered along with a bunch of hyperlinks to illustrate a few points.
Like all of Péter's reviews they are nothing short of complete, loaded with examples. This review is now different.
Here is how it begins (let's consider this the summary):
This second coming of a free academic database is much smaller than the earlier (very poor and withdrawn) version was, but it is far better in terms of both content and software, focusing on computer science and – to a limited extent on information science. It is a promising start by the Microsoft Research Asia group for extending it to many other disciplines.
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