Live Search Books was a search service for books launched in December 2006, part of Microsoft 's Live Search range of services. Microsoft was working with a number of libraries, including the British Library , to digitize books and make them searchable, and in the case of out-of-copyright books, available across the web.
4-480: Microsoft was running a Live Search Books Publisher Program (previously referred to as Windows Live Publisher ) to encourage book publishers to send their books to be scanned and indexed for the service. In May 2008, Microsoft closed their Live Search Books and Live Search Academic services, those results integrated into regular Search and/or returned to their owners. The project had scanned 750,000 books and indexed 80 million journal articles. The books scanned during
8-402: The project are still available through Internet Archive , the organization that was hired by Microsoft to scan the books. Some scanning was also performed by Kirtas Technologies. Live Search Books displayed in-copyright book contents from the following sources: In addition to the normal search capabilities, Live Search Books also featured: Live Search Academic Live Search Academic
12-477: Was a Web search engine for scholarly literature that existed from April 2006 to May 2008; it was part of Microsoft 's Live Search group of services. It was similar to Google Scholar , but rather than crawling the Internet for academic content, search results came directly from trusted sources, such as publishers of academic journals. Users were required to log in to access the service. Live Search Academic
16-625: Was known as Windows Live Academic Search when the beta version was officially launched on April 11, 2006. The name had changed to Live Search Academic by December 6, 2006, when Microsoft announced the addition of millions of new articles, mainly in biomedicine . On May 23, 2008, Microsoft announced the end of Live Search Academic and Live Search Books , both sites to be closed, with their results integrated into regular Search. The project scanned 750,000 books and indexed 80 million journal articles. Live Search Academic indexed journal articles, conference proceedings, books, theses and dissertations from
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