Monthly Archives: July 2021

The OpenCitations team is growing – announcing three new appointments!

Posted on July 30, 2021 by Silvio Peroni

This is a summer of great news for OpenCitations. Thanks to the generous support received from the scholarly community during the first year of SCOSS adoption, we’re happy to announce the appointment of three new colleagues to work for OpenCitations at the Research Centre for Open Scholarly Metadata (University of Bologna).   Here’s some information about their backgrounds, … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia Citations in Wikidata

Posted on July 21, 2021 by Chiara Di Giambattista

The interconnection between Wikipedia and Wikidata is now larger than ever.   The Wikipedia Citations dataset currently includes around 30M citations from Wikipedia pages to a variety of sources – of which 4M are to scientific publication. The increase of the connection with external data services … Continue reading →

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OpenCitations at LIBER Annual Conference 2021: ‘How Can Open Infrastructures Support the Role of Research Libraries?’

Posted on July 20, 2021 by Chiara Di Giambattista

For the second year, OpenCitations has taken part in the LIBER annual conference.  LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries) is a network that gathers 440 research libraries, based in more than 40 countries all over the world, with the mission of supporting Europe’s research libraries by highlighting their value to policymakers, … Continue reading →

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OpenCitations and SCOSS: one year of support

Posted on July 6, 2021 by Chiara Di Giambattista

At the end of 2019, OpenCitations was selected by The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Service (SCOSS) for presentation to the international scholarly community for crowd-sourced sustainability funding, along with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) and the Directory of … Continue reading →

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