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Microsoft Academic Search is quite much better anyways
by yamalight 14y ago
Microsoft Academic Search is quite much better anyways
- mjn 14y agoI like its interface better, but find its coverage, at least in my area (AI) to be so much worse than Google Scholar that I rarely use it. New articles sometimes don't show up for years, and inconsistently.
- yamalight 14y agoHm.. That's curious. Works pretty much fine for SemWeb stuff
- mjn 14y agoI hadn't checked in a while, but some spot-checking right now suggests it may depend on whether you care about conferences (which in my area are important). Seems to do a better job on journals, but to be 2-3 years out of date on conferences. For example, it doesn't seem to have indexed much from ICML since 2010 (though, curiously, it indexes exactly 3 papers from ICML 2011): http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/35/icml-international-conference-on-machine-learning http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/35/icml-in... Similar story for AAAI: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/251/aaai-national-conference-on-artificial-intelligence http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/251/aaai-n... One thing that's neat about GS is that it has a negative lag instead: it's already indexing papers from a bunch of conferences that haven't happened yet, and whose proceedings aren't officially out. It finds the versions that authors post on their own webpages, or in their institutional repositories, almost as soon as they're posted. For example, you can already read a good portion of the CHI 2013 proceedings if you search on the ISBN: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22978-1-4503-1899-0%2F13%2F04%22&btnG= http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22978-1-4503-...
- yamalight 14y agoHm. That's quite sad. It does much better job with SemWeb conferences. Though small ones are still not there, yeah. Hopefully they'll improve :)