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
We recently announced that we’d completely rewritten Unpaywall to make it faster, more accurate, and (most importantly) easier to fix and improve. We wanted to move Unpaywall from product to process, something we could continuously improve along with the community. Well, we’ve been working hard on that over the last few months and here’s an […] The post Unpaywall improvements: more gold, better green 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
We recently announced major changes to Unpaywall on our Unpaywall google group (https://groups.google.com/g/unpaywall) and via email to Unpaywall Premium Subscribers. A lot of folks aren’t on the group so we’re announcing here as well. TL;DRUnpaywall has migrated to a new codebase that helps us address data quality issues faster, and you may notice some changes. […] The post Major Update to Unpaywall Database appeared first on OpenAlex blog.| OpenAlex blog
As 2024 comes to a close, we’re taking the opportunity to reflect on the year behind us. And what a year it has been for OpenAlex! It’s hard to believe that it was only one year ago when we launched the Beta of our web interface and the first University, The Sorbonne, announced that they […] The post OpenAlex: 2024 in Review appeared first on OpenAlex blog.| OpenAlex blog
OurResearch is proud to announce a grant of $688,800 from The Navigation Fund to develop and launch an open, sustainable, web-based research intelligence (RI) module for the OpenAlex website. Our goal is to support expert finding, trend detection, and knowledge gap identification for researchers and research users. The RI module will serve as a map […] The post OurResearch receives $688k grant from Navigation Fund to enhance the OpenAlex User Interface 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 Financial Times recently published an article detailing Sorbonne University’s “radical decision” to switch to OpenAlex for its publication database and bibliometric analytics. The article (behind a paywall, unfortunately 😞) came out a little while ago, but we wanted to highlight it here in case you missed it. The news comes in the context of […] The post Coverage in the Financial Times of OpenAlex and the Sorbonne 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
