Big, big news from Sorbonne University (@Sorbonne_Univ_ )! They have decided to switch to OpenAlex for their publication database and bibliometric analytics, abandoning the use of proprietary products!
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OpenAlex
@OpenAlex_org
Building a universal, open library of scholarly information, inspired by the Library of Alexandria. Also makers of @unpaywall and @unsub_org
Joined June 2021
- OpenAlex is live! Docs are up, API is running, snapshots are available -- dig in and let us know what you think! Sampler: Docs: docs.openalex.org API: api.openalex.org/works/W2741809… Display: openalex.org/W2741809807 Feeling lucky? explore.openalex.org Thread for highlights!
- OurResearch receives $7.5M grant from Arcadia to establish OpenAlex, a milestone development for Open Science
- We're launching a massive improvement to our author disambiguation algorithm, which will merge 100M+ duplicate authors! It's a big rollout, so you may see the occasion hiccup in the API or the data today. More info soon!
- We will soon roll out a new author disambiguation system that is more accurate, better aligned with ORCID, and will provide a much better experience overall! As part of this change, all existing OpenAlex Author IDs will disappear and be replaced by new ones.
- We just posted a short preprint about OpenAlex on ArXiv! Please cite this if you use OpenAlex in your research (it helps us report usage back to our lovely funders :). arxiv.org/abs/2205.01833
- Announcing OpenAlex Topics— a new system for categorizing hundreds of millions of research publications! help.openalex.org/how-it-works/t…
- A brand-new version of our user interface just went live, and we're excited about it! Try it out now at openalex.org
- Today, @cwtsleiden announced the Open Leiden Ranking, the first fully transparent university ranking, using OpenAlex data!Today, we have a big announcement: The new Leiden Ranking Open Edition has been launched! 🎉 The new ranking is completely based on OpenAlex data and provides an open and transparent alternative to traditional rankings. open.leidenranking.com
- "French Ministry of Higher Education and Research partners with OpenAlex to develop a fully open bibliographic tool" ouvrirlascience.fr/french-ministr…
- We are proud that OpenAlex is free! All of the data is open, and most of our users will find all they need in our free services. For those who want a higher level of service (and to help support our mission!) we're also proud to offer OpenAlex Premium! openalex.org/pricing
- We're now indexing full text from publications' PDFs to increase our coverage of full-text search, making searches in OpenAlex even more powerful! 💪💪Learn more (and join the mailing list!) here: groups.google.com/g/openalex-use…
- Exciting news: we now support fulltext search over 50M articles using the General Index corpus from @carlmalamud and @internetarchive! More details:
- OpenAlex data now in beta! Read all about it: blog.ourresearch.org/openalex-beta/ #opensource #openinfrastructure #scholcomm
