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Direct linkAyers, Meredith – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2020
Microsoft Academic (MA) claims to be an academic search engine that uses knowledge discovery, machine learning, and semantic inference to help users search for scholarly information in new and better ways. However, this is not the first iteration of Microsoft Academic. Since its debut in 2004 as Microsoft Academic Search (MAS) (Ortega &…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Computer Software Evaluation, Research, Information Retrieval
Bendig, Regina B. – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2009
The author sought to determine to what extent the two search engines, Scirus and BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engines), would be useful to first-year university students as the first point of searching for chemical information. Five topics were searched and the first ten records of each search result were evaluated with regard to the type of…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Comparative Analysis, Online Searching, Chemistry
