Libra (Academic Search)

Libra (Academic Search)

Libra Academic Search is a public search engine for academic papers and literature, which is developed by Microsoft Research Asia. It uses the method of object-level Vertical search technology. Libra considers Papers, Authors, Conferences, Journals as different types of objects in the research literature. The relevance score of an object is computed by considering all the collected information about its attributes, and the importance score is calculated by considering its relationships with other objects. Libra is hosted on the World Wide Web at Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing.

The database of Libra consists of academic papers published in journals, conferences proceedings. It has over 1.8 million papers and 1.3 million authors mainly in computer science and related subjects as of May. 2007.

The principal other products in the area are Google Scholar, Elsevier's Scirus, and the open source project CiteSeer.

ee also

* Citation index
* DBLP (Digital Bibliography & Library Project)
* Google Scholar
* List of academic databases and search engines
* Scirus

External links

* [http://libra.msra.cn/ Libra Portal]
* [http://libra.msra.cn/about.htm About Libra Page]


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