Monthly Archives: September 2021

About engagement and evanescence: OpenCitations at the Open Science Fair 2021

Posted on September 29, 2021 by Chiara Di Giambattista

Community, governance, and shared goals: these are the key concepts that you would have heard discussed, had you listened in on September 21 at the Open Science Fair 2021 to the sessions entitled “ScholeXplorer and OpenCitations as the new frontier … Continue reading →

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OpenCitations in Five Hundred Words

Posted on September 24, 2021 by David Shotton

Yesterday I gave a lightning talk at the 2021 OASPA Conference, with the title OpenCitations – what does the future hold? The poster accompanying my talk, published on Zenodo at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526713, is reproduced below. Here is what I said: = … Continue reading →

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Academia’s missing references

Posted on September 23, 2021 by David Shotton

No-one is quite sure of the total number of scholarly publications within the global corpus. Indeed that number will be strongly influenced by the degree to which, in addition to books and journal articles, one includes within the definition of … Continue reading →

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Save the dates: OpenCitations’ September events 

Posted on September 15, 2021 by Chiara Di Giambattista

We are happy to announce OpenCitations’ participation in a number of online conferences and events during the next few weeks. Our directors Silvio Peroni and David Shotton will be speaking at the Open Science Fair 2021, the OASPA Conference 2021 … Continue reading →

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California Digital Library invests in OpenCitations

Posted on September 10, 2021 by Chiara Di Giambattista

OpenCitations is excited to announce that the California Digital Library (CDL) has joined our growing list of contributors. CDL’s commitment to sustainable open scholarship has great value for the global scholarly community.  Through its investments and partnerships, CDL aims to … Continue reading →

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92 million new citations added to COCI

Posted on September 9, 2021 by Chiara Di Giambattista

It’s been a month since the announcement of 1.09 Billion Citations available in the July 2021 release of COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations.   We’re now proud to announce the September 2021 release of COCI, which is based on open references to works with DOIs within the Crossref dump dated August … Continue reading →

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