It’s a big week at OpenAlex. On Monday, we announced that OpenAlex is now our top-level brand (and retired the “OurResearch” name). Yesterday we unveiled our new logo. And today, we’re thrilled to launch the beta release of our fully-rewritten codebase (codenamed Walden)! Walden is faster, bigger, and more maintainable–that means quicker bug fixes, more […] The post OpenAlex rewrite enters beta! 🎉 appeared first on OpenAlex blog.| OpenAlex blog
This is a big week for OpenAlex: yesterday we reorganized under the OpenAlex brand, and tomorrow we launch our completely rewritten codebase (beta). Today we launch our new logo! The old logo was unique and conveyed the idea of building, which we loved. But was also visually complex, almost Escheresque; consequently, it didn’t scale down […]| OpenAlex blog
For years, we’ve been working under the name OurResearch. That name sat at the top of our org chart, with three child projects under it: OpenAlex, Unpaywall, and Unsub. Starting today, things are simpler: that org chart now has just one parent—OpenAlex—with Unpaywall and Unsub beneath it. Why the change? Three reasons: 1. Fewer brands […] The post We’re now OpenAlex appeared first on OpenAlex blog.| OpenAlex blog
TLDR: Over the next five months we’re migrating OpenAlex to a new, better codebase; our schema won’t change, but some data (5%) will, and we’ll add over 50 million new works. Why the change OpenAlex was written in a big hurry, to fill the gap left when Microsoft Academic Graph disappeared. The code was rushed […] The post We’re Rebuilding OpenAlex While It’s Running — Here’s What’s Changing appeared first on OpenAlex blog.| OpenAlex blog
OurResearch is proud to announce a $7.5M grant from Arcadia, to establish a sustainable and completely open index of the world’s research ecosystem. The post OurResearch receives $7.5M grant from Arcadia to establish OpenAlex, a milestone development for Open Science appeared first on OpenAlex blog.| OpenAlex blog
The New England Journal of Medicine uses a non-standard format when presenting authors and their institutional affiliations, which is a problem when we want to keep track of these links in our data. We developed a custom algorithm to solve this problem, preserving more than a hundred thousand author-institution links. Linking works, authors, and institutions […]| OpenAlex blog
