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Goodbye, Microsoft Academic – Hello, open research infrastructure? -



Author: Aaron Tay, Alberto Martín-Martín, Sven E. Hug

The announcement of the closure of Microsoft Academic later this year, may have left the research community largely unmoved, although its demise has significant implications for those working with the service’s substantial database. Here, Aaron Tay, Alberto Martín-Martín, and Sven E. Hug¸ discuss what set Microsoft Academic apart from its competitors and the potential consequences of Microsoft’s withdrawal from scholarly metadata for the development of open research infrastructures.

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