Microsoft Academic Database

Microsoft Academic is a database with a collection of scholarly STEM articles. This provides a limited set of research literature to those without access to commercial databases. Microsoft Word 2016 has a link to Microsoft Academic, making it a convenient resource to those students who just require a few articles to construct a paper.

-DD

Microsoft Academic Research

Microsoft's Academic Research appears to be the software giant's answer to Google Scholar. To see its full capabilities, observe its treatment of the scholarly article co-authored by Bill Gates. Presently Academic Research is still in the "beta" stage of development, and at this point it seems to focus on scholarship in technical or information processing fields, as my searches for humanities scholars at my institution only showed a couple entries compared with Google Scholar.

-D.D.