… open-Web competitor, Microsoft’s Live Search Academic. We also wanted to see how well
the … Neither Google Scholar nor Live Search Academic reveal much about how their search …

Google Scholar and Windows Live Academic Search (WLAS) are examples of" blended"
databases, a controversial new class of tools which provide free, speedy access to academic …

… now have a new contender in this exciting field: Live Search Academic (academic.live.com). …
Live Search Academic attempts to be the most rigourous, but at the cost of cutting its range, …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the obsolescence process of Microsoft
Academic Search (MAS) as well as the effects of this decline in the coverage of disciplines and …

Academic web search engines have become central to scholarly research. While the fitness
of Google Scholar for research purposes has been examined repeatedly, Microsoft …

… It changed the name and URL of its initial Windows Live Academic (WLA) service to Live
Search Academic (LSA) but there was no sign of improvement as illustrated in a detailed review …

… Microsoft quietly revealed in May that it would end the program and the accompanying search
software, Live Search Books and Live Search Academic. The project made complete book …

Today’s scholars face an outstanding array of choices when choosing search tools: Google
Scholar, discipline-specific abstracts and index databases, library discovery tools, and more …

… Live Search Academic contained “millions of new articles–primarily bio-medical content.
Live Search Academic … The two-pane approach adopted by Windows Live Search Academic …

… Tools such as Microsoft's Live Search Academic and Google Scholar provide the basis of
an infrastructure that can go beyond coarse-grained metrics, but the primary focus of these …