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OpenCitations Blog moves to Hypotheses.org! 

Posted on August 2, 2022 by Chiara Di Giambattista

We’re happy and proud to announce that from now on OpenCitations Blog will be hosted by hypotheses.org, a platform dedicated to the host and divulgation of open access academic blogs.   You will find our new blog posts, as well … Continue reading →

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Save the dates: OpenCitations October events 

Posted on October 5, 2021 by Chiara Di Giambattista

With the numerous September events in which the OpenCitations’ directors have recently been involved behind us, it is now time to announce the participation of our director Silvio Peroni in two October events.  On Wednesday 6th, Silvio will take part … Continue reading →

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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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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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The Initiative for Open Abstracts is launched

Posted on September 24, 2020 by David Shotton

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 →

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OpenCitations described

Posted on February 26, 2020 by David Shotton

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 →

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The Wellcome Trust funds OpenCitations

Posted on December 23, 2018 by Silvio Peroni

The Open Biomedical Citations in Context Corpus funded by the Wellcome Trust The Wellcome Trust, which funds research in big health challenges and campaigns for better science, has agreed to fund The Open Biomedical Citations in Context Corpus, a new project … Continue reading →

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Citations as First-Class Data Entities: Introduction

Posted on February 19, 2018 by David Shotton

Citations are now centre stage As a result of the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), launched on April 6 last year, almost all the major scholarly publishers now open the reference lists they submit to Crossref, resulting in more than … Continue reading →

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Libraries and linked data #1: What are linked data?

Posted on February 27, 2013 by David Shotton

The first of six blog posts about libraries and linked data, bearing this title, is to be found at http://semanticpublishing.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/lld1-what-are-linked-data/. A draft of that post, that erroneously appeared here in this blog, has been removed.  

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