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Now is the time to work together toward open infrastructures for scholarly metadata

Ginny Hendricks

Ginny Hendricks, Sunday, Jul 12, 2026

In InfrastructureMetadataCollaboration

The closure of Microsoft Academic exposed the fragility of open scholarly infrastructure. This piece — published on the LSE Impact Blog in 2021 — draws four lessons from that moment and sets out a call to action for publishers, researchers, funders, institutions, and infrastructure providers to work together toward open, sustainable, and governed metadata infrastructure.