Microsoft Academic – Alternative to Google Scholar
academic.microsoft.com...that's being "retired" at the end of 2021 so an alternative for ~2 months only.
”The decision for the team to move on from MAS is not based on the operational but on the opportunity cost”
Honest answer, although buried into the QA section.
They say they see the value of the technology, but want to focus on bringing this to the enterprises.
Microsoft recommended a range of alternatives in their closure announcement. Anyone know much about any of these?
- Aminer
- CrossRef
- Dimensions
- lens.org
- OpenAlex.org
- OpenCitations
- Scopus
- Semantic Scholar
Ref includes links half way down: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/academic/ar...
Yes. I'm at Crossref, ask me anything.
I used it for a while and it was surprisingly good. It is a pity it is going away. Maybe Microsoft could open-source the code and/or the data?
Are you interested in the underlying scholarly metadata? What format is most useful to you?