Microsoft Academic Search

Microsoft launched a search tool called Windows Live Academic Search in 2006 to directly compete with Google Scholar.{{cite journal|last1=Carlson|first1=Scott|title=Challenging Google, Microsoft Unveils a Search Tool for Scholarly Articles|journal=Chronicle of Higher Education|date=April 2006|volume=52|issue=33|page=A43|url=https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ773667|access-date=29 January 2017}} It was renamed Live Search Academic after its first year and then discontinued two years later.{{cite journal|last1=Jacsó|first1=Péter|title=The pros and cons of Microsoft Academic Search from a bibliometric perspective|journal=Online Information Review|date=2011|volume=35|issue=6|pages=983–997|doi=10.1108/14684521111210788}} In 2009, Microsoft Research Asia Group launched a beta tool called Libra in 2009, which was for the purpose of algorithms research in object-level vertical search,{{cite web|url=http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/verticalsearch.aspx|title=Microsoft Research News: Search Objective Gets a Refined Approach|publisher=Microsoft Research|access-date=February 20, 2014}} data mining, entity linking, and data visualization.{{cite web|url=http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/academic/|title=Microsoft Research Projects - Academic Search|publisher=Microsoft Research|access-date=February 20, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225095910/http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/academic/|archive-date=February 25, 2014}} Libra was redirected to the MAS service by 2011 and contained 27.2 million records for books, conference papers, and journals.

Although largely functional, the service was not intended to be a production website and ceased to be developed, as was originally intended when the research goals of the project had been met.{{cite web|url=http://academic.research.microsoft.com/About/Help.htm|title=About Microsoft Academic Search|publisher=Microsoft Research|access-date=February 20, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140213082154/http://academic.research.microsoft.com/About/Help.htm|archive-date=February 13, 2014}} The service stopped being updated in 2012.{{cite web |title=Microsoft Academic Search FAQ |url=https://academic.microsoft.com/FAQ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170105184616/https://academic.microsoft.com/FAQ |archive-date=January 5, 2017 |access-date=29 January 2017}}{{Cite journal|arxiv=1404.7045|title=Empirical Evidences in Citation-Based Search Engines: Is Microsoft Academic Search dead?|journal=Online Information Review|volume=38|issue=7|pages=936|last1=Orduna-Malea|first1=Enrique|author2=Juan Manuel Ayllon|last3=Martin-Martin|first3=Alberto|author4=Emilio Delgado Lopez-Cozar|year=2014|doi=10.1108/OIR-07-2014-0169|s2cid=51985965 }} The fact that this decline was not reported on earlier indicated to the authors that the service was largely ignored by academics and bibliometricians alike.

In July 2014, Microsoft Research announced that Microsoft Academic was evolving from a research project to a production service, and would be integrating with Microsoft's flagship search engine, Bing, and its intelligent personal assistant service, Cortana. “By growing Microsoft Academic Search from a research effort to production,” [Microsoft Research's Kuansan] Wang says, “our goal is to make Bing-powered Cortana the best personal research assistant for our users".{{cite web|url=http://blogs.technet.com/b/inside_microsoft_research/archive/2014/07/14/making-cortana-the-researcher-s-dream-assistant.aspx|title=Making Cortana the Researcher's Dream Assistant|access-date=March 15, 2015}}

• Microsoft Academic
• Google Scholar
• CiteSeerX
• List of academic databases and search engines

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• [http://academic.research.microsoft.com Microsoft Academic Search] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140803221848/http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ |date=2014-08-03 }}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20140225095910/http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/academic/ Project description on Microsoft Research website]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20140226184852/http://datamarket.azure.com/dataset/mrc/microsoftacademic Microsoft Academic Search dataset on Azure Marketplace]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060716121211/http://libra.directtaps.net/PaperSearcher/paper_search.aspx Microsoft Libra]

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