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15- Microsoft Academic Search: An Overview and Future Directions
Pages 107-108

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From page 107...
... It will be a free academic search engine for tracking academic papers, citation links, and all the various characteristics that can be extracted from papers. What we have been doing over the last six to nine months is working directly with open access repositories and publishers around the world to sign content agreements so we can get access to their papers.
From page 108...
... Here is a recent quote from Nature2: "...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)


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