Useful Links and Tools by Microsoft Academic search

Useful Links and Tools by Microsoft Academic search

We all are very well aware of Google and various tools and resources that Google provides regarding searching any information from the web. However, there are other useful links and resources available on the web that allows us to search and seek information in totally different manner.
As a researcher we must be able to find research related material from different libraries and search engines to broaden our results and learning experience.

In this regards, I found some useful academic tools developed by Microsoft, I want to share it with you. Maybe you know about them but anyway it worth paying visit once in a while:

• Call For Papers (with filtering ability): http://academic.research.microsoft.com/CFP 

Use this to search and find out about various conferences around the world.

• Academic Scholar Search (with ability to search person name, try Aapo Hyvarinen for instance): http://academic.research.microsoft.com/
  • http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Author/188772/aapo-hyvarinen
  • http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Author/12391654/kourosh-meshgi?query=kourosh%20meshgi

• Academic Map (e.g. earch for Kyoto University and Computer Science): http://academic.research.microsoft.com/AcademicMap

• Organization Comparison: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Comparison?entitytype=7&id1=568&id2=11883&topDomainId=2

•  Publication Graphs (genealogy graph, co-publication, …): http://academic.research.microsoft.com/VisualExplorer#693530

• Co-author Path (relation between two researcher in publishing): http://academic.research.microsoft.com/VisualExplorer#693530&3381887

• Paper Citation Profile (who is inspired by your paper): http://academic.research.microsoft.com/PaperCitationGraph#142067

• Knowledge Domain Trend (pay attention to computer science!): http://academic.research.microsoft.com/DomainTrend

These are some of the tools and links that could prove extremely useful if you use them for your research purpose. Similarly, If you find out or know about such other links, sites, tools that could aid in searching and researching, then please do also let me know in the comments section.