Tag Archives: OpenCitations

The OpenCitations team is growing – announcing three new appointments!

Posted on July 30, 2021 by Silvio Peroni

This is a summer of great news for OpenCitations. Thanks to the generous support received from the scholarly community during the first year of SCOSS adoption, we’re happy to announce the appointment of three new colleagues to work for OpenCitations at the Research Centre for Open Scholarly Metadata (University of Bologna).   Here’s some information about their backgrounds, … 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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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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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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More than 733M citations now available in COCI

Posted on September 7, 2020 by Silvio Peroni

We have published the bi-monthly release of COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations. In this latest release (dated 6 September 2020), we extended COCI with more than 11 million additional citations. Now, COCI contains more than 733 million DOI-to-DOI citation links between more than 59.4 million bibliographic entities. Continue reading →

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Announcing the Research Centre for Open Scholarly Metadata and the International Advisory Board for OpenCitations

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Silvio Peroni

OpenCitations is managed by the newly formed Research Centre for Open Scholarly Metadata at the University of Bologna. The new International Advisory Board for OpenCitations is formally part of the Research Centre for Open Scholarly Metadata. The Board has been created to assist the Directors of OpenCitations by providing stakeholder community input that will guide the future activities and direction of OpenCitations. Continue reading →

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Additional 31 million citations in COCI

Posted on March 25, 2020 by Silvio Peroni

COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations, has just been extended with more than 31 million additional citations. 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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