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Here's a deep cut for you: Microsoft Academic was an academic search engine once touted as an alternative to Google scholar. But unlike scholar, it made its dataset of authors, organisations, keywords, and journals available as open data. This made it a very useful resource that supported many research tools including VOSviewer, Unsub, Litmaps, and Semantic Scholar. Microsoft killed it anyway in 2021. ... read full post
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A June 6 report by the Guardian newspaper revealed that the University of Michigan (U-M) has been using undercover contract investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian protesters and campus groups for nearly a year.
