[Web4lib] Microsoft Academic Search, is it broken?

Drew, Bill drewwe at MORRISVILLE.EDU
Fri May 19 08:47:32 EDT 2006


Am I missing something here?  It is still a Beta test!

Wilfred (Bill) Drew
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org 
> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Ross Singer
> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 10:30 PM
> To: Stephen Barnett
> Cc: Sonya Pennington; Marilyn Sheck; web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Microsoft Academic Search, is it broken?
> 
> 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.


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