Tony Hey, corporate vice president of Microsoft's External Research Division, announced at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit free software tools for researchers to publish, save and share data throughout the entire scholarly communication life cycle. This sounds almost like social networking for educational purposes. Microsoft researchers worked with "academia" while developing the tools to obtain input on the application of technology to the needs of the academic community--which is basically what happens when software is usually in its Beta development stages. Simultaneously, Microsoft product groups advised the company on how its technology could work best for the entire research process. The following tools are freely available now at Microsoft's site for Scholarly Communication : • Add-ins. The Article Authoring Add-in for Word 2007 enables metadata to be captured at the authoring stage to preserve document structure and semantic information throughout the publishing process, which is essential for enabling search, discovery and analysis in subsequent stages of the life cycle. The Creative Commons Add-in for Office 2007 allows authors to embed Creative Commons licenses directly into an Office document (Word, Excel or PowerPoint) by linking to the Creative Commons site via a Web service. • The Microsoft e-Journal Service. This offering provides a hosted, full-service solution that facilitates easy self-publishing of onlin ...
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Tony Hey, corporate vice president of Microsoft's External Research Division, announced at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit free software tools for researchers to publish, save and share data throughout the entire scholarly communication life cycle. This sounds almost like social networking for educational purposes. Microsoft researchers worked with "academia" while developing the tools to obtain input on the application of technology to the needs of the academic community--which is basically what happens when software is usually in its Beta development stages. Simultaneously, Microsoft product groups advised the company on how its technology could work best for the entire research process. The following tools are freely available now at Microsoft's site for Scholarly Communication : • Add-ins. The Article Authoring Add-in for Word 2007 enables metadata to be captured at the authoring stage to preserve document structure and semantic information throughout the publishing process, which is essential for enabling search, discovery and analysis in subsequent stages of the life cycle. The Creative Commons Add-in for Office 2007 allows authors to embed Creative Commons licenses directly into an Office document (Word, Excel or PowerPoint) by linking to the Creative Commons site via a Web service. • The Microsoft e-Journal Service. This offering provides a hosted, full-service solution that facilitates easy self-publishing of onlin ...