[Web4lib] Microsoft Academic Search, is it broken?

[Ross Singer]

Sadly, Academic Live (indeed, all of live.com) doesn't work with
Safari.  Its behavior with Firefox on Ubuntu has been flaky, as well.

All that, plus lack of OpenURL support isn't auguring well for
academic.live.com, which is sad, since its content is right up our
institution's alley.

-Ross.

On 5/18/06, Stephen Barnett <Stephen.Barnett at cdu.edu.au> wrote:
> It happens with IE version 6, but Firefox 1.07 is OK (well this morning
> it did!)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marilyn Sheck [mailto:Marilyn.Sheck at spl.org]
> Sent: Friday, 19 May 2006 8:30 AM
> To: Stephen Barnett; web4lib at webjunction.org
> Cc: Sonya Pennington
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Microsoft Academic Search, is it broken?
>
> This might be a silly question, but what browser are you using?  When I
> try using Netscape, for instance, I get the same result you describe
> below.  But when I use the latest version of IE it works fine.
>
> >>> "Stephen Barnett" <Stephen.Barnett at cdu.edu.au> 5/18/2006 3:50:12 pm
> >>>
> I have been trying to demo Microsoft's http://academic.live.com/ to
> academics in the last few day's but when I type my search string in and
> press enter, it goes off seemingly to do something, I quickly see an
> unrelated directory page and all I then  see happen on screen then is a
> page that says loading................
>
> Am I alone with this????????
>
> Meanwhile they are happy to use Google Scholar, along with our other
> resources..........
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