Microsoft Scholarly Communication

Microsoft External Research recently released free tools that focuses in computing and scientific research authoring and publishing pertinent research data and facts. It is called as Microsoft Scholarly Communication which comprises the following tools:

•  The Research Information Centre (Beta)
  It was designed to allow research partners to store, share, discuss, manage, find, and track all the components of a research project—including data, references, papers, bookmarks, proposals, internal messages, information, and findings—within a simple interface.
• Article Authoring Add-in v1.0 for Microsoft Office Word 2007
  The Article Authoring Add-in enables authors and editors to open and save Microsoft Office Word files in the National Library of Medicine’s NLM XML format, a file format that is used in the publishing and archiving of scientific and technical articles.
• Creative Commons Add-in v1.0 for Microsoft Office
  The add-in allows an author of a Microsoft Office document to choose a Creative Commons license from those available on the Creative Commons Web site (by using the Creative Commons Web service).
• Microsoft eJournal Service (Alpha)
  It is designed to simplify the self-publishing of workshop and conference proceedings and smaller journals, as well as online collaboration between authors.
• Research Output Repository Platform (Alpha)
  Research output repositories are increasingly in use on university campuses and in research communities worldwide.
• The Microsoft Math Add-in for Microsoft Office Word 2007
  The Microsoft Math Add-in enhances Microsoft Office Word 2007 with computational and graphing capabilities

Microsoft Scholarly Communication aims to help the research academia with the following goals:

• Optimize for data-driven research and science
• Enable broad community engagement through greater interoperability
• Help ensure that data storage is reliable and secure for the long term
• Build on existing community protocols, practices, and guidelines
• Harness collective intelligence through social networking and semantic knowledge discover

For more details and download links, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/tc/scholarly_communication.mspx

[ via Microsoft External Research ]