Seemingly just launched, Microsoft Academic Search is now in a live public beta. Currently very technology and computing oriented, MAS doesn’t seem to be any kind of competitor to JURN for searching the full-text of arts and humanities ejournals.
The way that MAS can visualise links between authors is certainly an interesting advance…
It seems a couple of new features appeared on Microsoft Research’s new academic search-engine – for example, the paper and citation trend under each author’s profile.
Kind of interesting.