Category Archives: Citations as First-Class Data Entities

More than 624 million citations now available on COCI

Posted on January 21, 2020 by

We are now proud to announce the third release of COCI, which contains more than 624 million DOI-to-DOI citation links coming from both ‘the ‘Open’ and the ‘Limited’ sets of Crossref reference data. Continue reading →

Posted in Citations as First-Class Data Entities, Data publication, Open Citation Identifiers, Open Citations | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations

Posted on April 15, 2019 by

COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations Author(s) Ivan Heibi – ivan.heibi2@unibo.it Digital Humanities Advanced Research Centre (DHARC), Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Silvio Peroni – silvio.peroni@unibo.it Digital Humanities Advanced Research … Continue reading →

Posted in Citations as First-Class Data Entities, Data publication, Ontologies, Open Citation Identifiers, Open Citations | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Crowdsourcing open citations with CROCI

Posted on February 7, 2019 by

Crowdsourcing open citations with CROCI An analysis of the current status of open citations, and a proposal Author(s) Ivan Heibi – ivan.heibi2@unibo.it Digital Humanities Advanced Research Centre (DHARC), Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy … Continue reading →

Posted in Citations as First-Class Data Entities, Data publication, Open Citations | Tagged , , , , , | 4 Comments

The OpenCitations Enhancement Project – final report

Posted on January 2, 2019 by

The OpenCitations Enhancement Project Final report for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Report period: 1st May 2017 – 30 November 2018. Report written: 30th December 2018 Background OpenCitations (http://opencitations.net) is a scholarly infrastructure organization dedicated to open scholarship and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Citations as First-Class Data Entities, Data publication, Open Citation Identifiers, Open Citations, Semantic Publishing, Web interface design | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

New release of COCI: 445M DOI-to-DOI citation links now available

Posted on November 19, 2018 by

As introduced in a previous blog post, COCI is the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI references, all released as CC0 material. It is our first OpenCitations Index of open citations, in which we have applied the concept of citations … Continue reading →

Posted in Citations as First-Class Data Entities, Data publication, Open Citation Identifiers, Open Citations | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI references

Posted on July 12, 2018 by

In a previous series of blog posts we proposed the treatment of bibliographic citations as first-class data entities, permitting citations to be endowed with descriptive properties. In doing so, we outlined some specific requirements, namely that the citations should be … Continue reading →

Posted in Bibliographic references, Citations as First-Class Data Entities, Data publication, Open Citation Identifiers, Open Citations | 4 Comments

Workshop on Open Citations

Posted on April 17, 2018 by

OpenCitations [1], the EXCITE Project [2] and Europe PubMed Central [3] are pleased to announce a Workshop on Open Citations at the University of Bologna in Bologna, Italy [4] on 3-5 September – https://workshop-oc.github.io. Format and topics Day One and … Continue reading →

Posted in Bibliographic references, Citations as First-Class Data Entities, Open Citations, Open scholarship | Tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment