5. Explore over 38.8 million publications…and growing
http://academic.research.microsoft.com
6. MSR Academic Search data comes from open
access repositories, publishers, and web crawls
– Currently 38.8M papers across ~15 domains
• 75M+ papers in the queue
– More enhancements to come…
9. Signed
70+ Content Partners Signed
Partner Papers
AAAS 225,000
American Geophysical Union 141,000
American Institute of Physics 437,000
American Medical Association 125,000
American Psychological Association 194,500
Annual Reviews 30,000
arXiv 680,000
Association for Computing Machinery 80,000
Astrophysics Data System (ADS) 8,700,000
BASE 29,000,000
bepress 500,000
BioMed Central 88,000
BioOne 85,000
BMJ 577,000
Brill 100,000
Cambridge University Press 580,000
Central & Eastern European Online Library: CEEOL 131,200
CERN Document Server 200,000
CiteSeer 750,000
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Org 50,000
CrossRef 46,000,000
Digital.CSIC 35,153
Elsevier 9,500,000
Emerald 150,000
HighWire 3,197,000
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 40,000
Humanities Text Initiative
IADIS
50,000
6,500 Imminent
IEEE 625,000
IGI Global 14,000
Information Bridge: DOE 280,000 Partner Papers
Institute of Physics 425,046 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 80,000
InTech 8,000 SIAM 40,000
ITHAKA/JSTOR 1,000,000 Thieme 300,000
Karger AG 260,000
M.E. Sharpe 100,000
MedKnow
MetaPress
60,000
5,600,000 In Discussion
MIT Press 23,000
National Institute of Informatics 2,800,000
NDLTD 1,600,000 Partner Papers
OAIster 23,000,000 AgEcon Search 40,001
Oxford University Press 650,000 Allen Press ????
PNAS 103,000 American Chemical Society 900,799
PolicyArchive 30,000 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) 165,000
Project Euclid 108,436 American Society of Civil Engineers 80,000
Project Muse 200,000 American Society of Mechanical Engineers 60,000
Public Knowledge Project 18,000 Atypon 10,000,000
Public Library of Science 130,000 De Gruyter 50,000
Publishing Technology Plc. (Ingenta) 5,200,000 Nature Publishing Group 700,000
PubMed 22,000,000 New England Journal of Medicine 185,000
Qscience 1,000 Optical Society of America (OSA) 200,000
RACO 116,054 Silverchair ????
RePEc 970,000 SPIE 300,000
Royal Society 65,000
Taylor & Francis 1,300,000
Royal Society of Chemistry 300,000
Trove (National Library of Australia) 800,000
Royal Society of Medicine 18,000
USGS Publications Warehouse 75,000
Sage 700,000
Wiley-Blackwell 4,000,000
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) 263,000
Springer 4,900,000 William S. Hein & Co. 1,000,000
VGTU Press 1,100 Wolters Kluwer Health, Medical Research 1,100,000
10. 4 August 2011 | Nature 476, 18 (2011)
(doi:10.1038/476018a)
“…Meanwhile, Microsoft Academic
Search (MAS), which launched in
2009 and has a tool similar to
Google Scholar, has over the past
few months added a suite of nifty
new tools based on its citation
metrics (go.nature.com/u1ouut).
These include visualizations of
citation networks (see 'Mapping the
structure of science'); publication
trends; and rankings of the leading
researchers in a field.”
11. Analyst Coverage
Outsell: 10 to Watch
Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search
“Two giants from outside the main STM arena threaten to shake up the space for STM
metrics and analytical services. Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search announced
new functionalities that could disrupt those offered as commercial services from Thomson
Reuter’s Web of Knowledge and Elsevier’s Scopus.”
“Now Google Scholar is offering its own citation tracker functionality – free to use, of
course – that can allow authors to calculate performance metrics such as the h-index.
Microsoft, meanwhile, has focused on adding functionality to its search results, such as
dynamic lists of top authors/publications/journals/organisations.”
12. Outsell: A compelling user experience
• “…There are a number of interesting
features here which make it a good
alternative to Google Scholar
[emphasis added] – in particular, …it
provides some nice graphics, and
some handy links in the left bar to
refine your search by particular
authors, journals or keywords.
• “The other tools on the Microsoft
academic site are really well-
implemented and a lot of fun as
well, particularly if you’re a
published researcher.
• “You can use the co-author graph
and citation graph tools to
generate beautiful visual
representations of who’s citing your
work, or who you’re connected to
through authorship…”*
* Ware, Mark (2011), “Scientific, Technical & Market Information: 2011 Market Forecast and Trends Report,”
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Outsell (November 30)
13.
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15.
16. Alerts
Papers Edit
publication
Export
Links to fulltext
Citation History
and Context
References &
Citing Papers
30. Public API
• Application Programming Interface
– Supports queries against all academic entities and
their basic info
• With the API, you can
– Work with others to share info
– Help users to build useful clients
• All openly available to everyone
– Targeting the academic community
– API is available for non-commercial use only
API details at http://academic.research.microsoft.com/About/Help.htm#5
34. Next up…
• Growth
– More content coverage
– Authenticated Access / Library Links (Associate Member)
– Committed to implementing CrossMark
– Exploring partnerships
– New usage scenarios (including data citation)
• Expanded content types (Founding Sponsor)
• Our Commitments
– MAS is a web service for researchers, by researchers.
– We intend to be an open platform for the community, and we
want to commit to the community to keep this service
open, transparent, and a “sandbox” available to researchers for
exploration and experimentation.
– We are very interested to evolving this service to better represent
how science/academia works. As protocols and/or standards
emerge, we hope to embody these as part of MAS moving forward.
36. Thank you!
@MSFTAcademic
Lee Dirks
Director, Portfolio Strategy
Microsoft Research | Connections
ldirks@microsoft.com or scholar@microsoft.com
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Editor's Notes
“User Behavior & The Emerging New Normal: User adoption of disruptive technologies has been and will continue to be a driving force in shaping the information landscape. This session will look at some of the initiatives that are being fueled by current user information behavior, expectations, and needs, such as the development of digital libraries, collaborative scholarship, and innovative and measure the value of web-based scholarship.”
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