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Friday, 14 April 2006 |
With all the controversy surrounding Google Scholar it is not surprising to see Microsoft launch a counterattack service in the form of Windows Live Academic Search. While Google Scholar gets data by searching the web and is facing a myriad of copyright challenges as a result, the beta launch of the latest Windows Live tool works with publishers to secure rights to provide content for its database. Read all about the launch or visit Windows Live, which is a bit of a jumble at the moment in beta. You have to search for something first before you get a horizontal category bar to appear under the search box. Select 'Academic' and conduct a search of peer-review journals. Looks like there isn't much in there yet but the interface works quite well and gives you an idea of how this type of access might work in the future. With Google trouncing Microsoft in the search stakes at the moment the strategy of getting in bed with the publishers and searching a database of authorised material instead of the wild wild web is a high stakes gamble that might just pay off.
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Monday, 13 March 2006 |
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It was inevitable that once academic blogs started to get noticed by peers and colleagues in academia that many of the traditional political catfights associated with ivory towers and hallowed halls would emerge in the new media.
And so it is that conservative newsweekly Human Events salivates at the prospect of drawing attention to a critique of Juan Cole, Professor of History at the University of Michigan and high-profile liberal Middle Eastern scholar, by Martin Kramer, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
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Saturday, 04 February 2006 |
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Technology offers academics fascinating new methods of Internet vetting procedures to author, filter and sort academic work. Aaron Barlow writes in academic journal ePluribus Media about some of the options:
"The possibilities, of course, are myriad. What is needed, unfortunately, are academics with sufficient reputation and confidence to begin and to oversee such sites, outlining requirements for posting articles and contributing their own. They also need to be in positions where they can command funds sufficient to establish the sites and ensure that they will continue for a reasonably long period of time."
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