This is good news for those of us who want at least some competition with Google Scholar. If they stick with it, this might just do it. And by “they” I mean Microsoft. They have been even more fickle than Google about abandoning viable platforms. Check it. Use it. Let me know how well it works for you.
Some of you may remember Microsoft’s Academic Search, a research project and academic search engine that was discontinued in 2012. However, in March 2016, Microsoft brought back an updated version of the Academic Search system as a Bing-powered service.
Fast forward to April 2017, it appears that Microsoft has big plans for this academia-centric search engine as the company has launched Microsoft Academic 2.0 in preview form, allowing everyone to have a taste of what the system may offer when the full version is made available.
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I’m not even familiar with Google Scholar. What are its features and who should be using it?
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Google Scholar is a specialized search engine that searches for journal articles, patents, and case law. For those who have no university affiliation, it helps you find available research and writing online. It has typical Google research functions like searching by date as well as interesting functions like searching by number of times cited. Handy. Works spectacularly with bibliographic tools like Zotero or Mendeley. Anybody can use it, especially if you want something a little more specialized. You can also create google alerts from keyword searches. Here is a link to a search using keywords “tutor mentor relationships” and restricting the search to 2017: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2017&q=tutor+mentor+relationships&hl=en&as_sdt=0,18