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Category Archives: Open scholarship
The Social Dilemma and open academic analytics
Last night I watched the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma (https://www.netflix.com/title/81254224), in which former employees of the big Silicon Valley social media companies expose the serious and sometimes tragic or even fatal consequences that social media may have on individual … Continue reading
Posted in Open academic analytics, Open scholarship, Open Science
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The Initiative for Open Abstracts is launched
OpenCitations is proud to be part of the launch of the Initiative for Open Abstracts, a new cross-publisher initiative calling for the unrestricted availability of abstracts to boost the discovery of research. The Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA), launched on … Continue reading
OpenCitations updates: interviews, outreach, research positions, citations
Several things and events happened during the past month and a half which involved us directly as a participant. Here we introduce some of the most significant ones: a) our interview during a Fireside Chat at the Open Publishing Fest; b) the SCOSS presentation of a poster about us during LIBER 2020; c) the two new short-term open positions (application deadline: 23 July 2020) for our Wellcome Trust funded project; d) the new release of COCI bringing the overall amount of open citations available in our dataset to more than 721 million. Continue reading
OpenCitations described
OpenCitations is an infrastructure organization for open scholarship dedicated to the publication of open bibliographic and citation data. We at OpenCitations are proud to announce the publication, in the first issue of Quantitative Science Studies, of a canonical paper in … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliographic references, Citations as First-Class Data Entities, Data publication, open access, Open Citation Identifiers, Open Citations, Open scholarship, Open Science, Uncategorized
Tagged Bibliometrics, citation data, COCI, CrossRef, linked data, OCDM, Open Citation Corpus, OpenCitations, QSS, Scientometrics, SCOSS, spar
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The first issue of Quantitative Science Studies
The memorable date 20/02/2020 saw the publication by MIT Press of the first issue of Volume One of a new journal, Quantitative Science Studies (QSS), the official open access journal of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI). QSS’s … Continue reading
Posted in Open Citations, open access, Open scholarship, Bibliographic references
Tagged citation data, I4OC, Elsevier, ISSI, QSS, APC, Scientometrics, Informetrics, Bibliometrics, Journal flip
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OpenCitations selected for SCOSS second funding cycle
The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) is launching its second funding cycle, and OpenCitations is one of three open science infrastructure organizations whose services have been evaluated and selected for presentation to the international scholarly community for … Continue reading
Posted in Open Citations, Open scholarship, Open Science
Tagged open access, Open Data, Open scholarship, Open Science, OpenCitations, SCOSS
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Early adopters of the OpenCitations Data Model
OpenCitations is very pleased to announce its collaboration with four new scholarly Research and Development projects that are early adopters of the recently updated OpenCitations Data Model, described in this blog post. The four projects are similar, in that they … Continue reading
OpenCitations and the Initiative for Open Citations: A Clarification
Some folk are confused, but OpenCitations and the Initiative for Open Citations, despite the similarity of their names, are two distinct organizations. OpenCitations (http://opencitations.net) is an open scholarly infrastructure organization directed by Silvio Peroni and myself, and its primary purpose … Continue reading
Oxford University Press opens its references!
Good news! Today, on January 16th 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP) announced its participation in the Initiative for Open Citations, and requested Crossref to turn on reference sharing for all OUP deposited references from more than half a million publications. … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliographic references, open access, Open Citations, Open scholarship
Tagged bibliography, citation data, CrossRef, I4OC, open access, references
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