Tag Archives: Open Science

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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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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Swiss Institutions pledge 89,250 Euros to OpenCitations

Posted on August 6, 2021 by Chiara Di Giambattista

We want to express our gratitude to the 18 institutional members and customers of the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries which have now pledged 89,250 euros to support OpenCitations over the next three years. This generous donation is part of a total funding of 320,250 euros destined for the three services currently being promoted by SCOSS: DOAB and OAPEN, PKP, and OpenCitations.   The Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries involves all cantonal universities, the ETH Domain, the Swiss National Library and other institutions from the fields of education and research as well as from the public sector, with the core task of licensing … Continue reading →

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Crossing a significant threshold: more than one billion citations now available in COCI!

Posted on August 4, 2021 by Chiara Di Giambattista

“The competitive benefits of closing access to citation data diminish with each new citation released to the public domain, but the benefits of open data remain. Going forward, citation data is almost completely public domain”. With these words, from the … Continue reading →

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New research fellowship position to work on the EOSC

Posted on February 23, 2021 by Silvio Peroni

We now seek applicants for a new three-year research fellowship to be held from March 2021, for which the application closing deadline is 7 February 2021. Plan: to strengthen the current technical and computational infrastructure. Continue reading →

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Seeking applicants for three-year research fellowship position

Posted on December 30, 2020 by Silvio Peroni

We now seek applicants for a new three-year research fellowship to be held from March 2021, for which the application closing deadline is 7 February 2021. Plan: to strengthen the current technical and computational infrastructure. Continue reading →

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COCI has surpassed 700M citations

Posted on May 13, 2020 by Silvio Peroni

We are excited to share that COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations, was on 12 May 2020 extended with more than 47 million additional citations, and has reached a total number of more than 702 million DOI-to-DOI citation links between more than 58 million bibliographic entities. Continue reading →

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The French National Fund for Open Science supports OpenCitations

Posted on March 10, 2020 by Silvio Peroni

The FNSO is contributing € 250,000, which is 16.3% of the amount that was requested under SCOSS and is committing to a political and technical partnership with OpenCitations. Continue reading →

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