Microsoft External Research – Scholarly Communications
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Microsoft External Research collaborates with the world’s foremost researchers in academia, across industries and governments, to advance research and fuel innovation. Working closely with researchers is an essential part of the Microsoft External Research engagement model; the research team serves as a critical link between academia and Microsoft product groups that develop and use new technologies from across the corporation. Collecting and analyzing data and authoring, publishing, and preserving information are essential components researchers’ daily work—with collaboration and search and discovery augmenting the entire process. At each phase, Microsoft technologies play an increasingly fundamental role. The Microsoft External Research vision is to support the scholarly communications lifecycle with software and services so that data and information flow in a coordinated and seamless fashion. By working with members of the research community, Microsoft External Research is developing a series of technologies that are designed for researchers and academics with the following goals in mind: a) Optimize for data-driven research and science; b) Enable broad community engagement through greater interoperability; c) Help ensure that data storage is reliable and secure for the long term; d) Build on existing community protocols, practices, and guidelines; and e) Harness collective intelligence through social networking and semantic knowledge discovery. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.