OpenAlex is getting a major overhaul—in motion. The team is rebuilding OpenAlex and merging it with Unpaywall, adding 50M+ works, fixing legacy bugs, and enabling user curation—all while keeping schema and IDs stable.
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https://blog.ourresearch.org/were-rebuilding-openalex-while-its-running-heres-whats-changing/
We’re Rebuilding OpenAlex While It’s Running — Here’s What’s Changing - OurResearch blog
TLDR: Over the next five months we’re migrating OpenAlex to a new, better codebase; our schema won’t change, but some data (5%) will, and we’ll add over 50 million new works. Why the change OpenAlex was written in a big hurry, to fill the gap left when Microsoft Academic Graph disappeared. The code was rushed […]
