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From little acorns . . . A retrospective on OpenCitations

Posted on August 16, 2021 by David Shotton

The initial vision Now that OpenCitations is hosting over one billion freely available scholarly bibliographic citations, this is perhaps an opportune moment to look back to the start of this initiative. A little over eleven years ago, on 24 April … 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 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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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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