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The OpenCitations blog posts are now archived on Rogue Scholar with DOIs

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Author Chiara Di Giambattista

Last April, Martin Fenner launched Rogue Scholar, an archive of science blogs aiming to index full-text of blog posts, establish a full-text search, and register DOIs and metadata for all posts. Rogue Scholar works with all blogging platforms that publish scholarly content and have an RSS or Atom feed with full-text content distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) license.

Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata 2023: apply now to participate!

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Author Chiara Di Giambattista

We are pleased to announce that, after two online editions, the 2023 edition of the Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata will come back to Bologna, on 26-27 October 2023. – https://workshop-oc.github.io.  During the two-day event, researchers, policy-makers and scholarly publishers will gather in the historical location of the University of Bologna to take part in the plenary

OpenCitations’ 2022: one year, numerous outcomes

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Author Chiara Di Giambattista

2023 has arrived, and it’s the time to put aside the old agendas and to fill the freshly printed organizers with new tasks. However, it is also worth looking back over the achievements of the past year. So, before consigning 2022 to the archives, we want to take a moment to recall and celebrate all that OpenCitations has achieved over the past year, in terms of technical developments, community building, and our own internal organization.

OpenCitations is hiring: one-year Research Fellow position now open

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Author Chiara Di Giambattista

OpenCitations is seeking applicants for a one-year Research Fellow position to be held from April 2023, for which the application closing deadline is 28 February 2023.  Currently, the amount and complexity of the data made available by OpenCitations opens up several issues related to the improvement, scalability and optimisation of its infrastructure.

Discover POCI, the index of open citations from PubMed

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Author Chiara Di Giambattista

We’re happy to announce POCI, the OpenCitations Index of PubMed open PMID-to-PMID citations, an RDF dataset containing details of all the citations from publications bearing PubMed Identifiers (PMIDs) to other PMID-identified publications, harvested from the National Institutes of Health Open Citations Collection (NIH-OCC). The citations available in POCI are treated as first-class data entities, with accompanying

A technical overview of OpenCitations Meta

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Author Arcangelo Massari

This blog post is the first of a series dedicated to the description and promotion of OpenCitations Meta.  In addition to OpenCitations’ Citation Indexes, OpenCitations is pleased to announce a new service: OpenCitations Meta, a database which stores and delivers bibliographic metadata for all publications involved in the OpenCitations citation indexes.

Discover DOCI, the index of open citations from DataCite

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Author Chiara Di Giambattista

We’re excited to introduce DOCI, the OpenCitations Index of Datacite open DOI-to-DOI citations, a new tool containing citations derived from publications bearing DataCite DOIs to other DOI-identified publications, harvested from DataCite. The citations available in DOCI are treated as first-class data entities, with accompanying properties including the citations timespan, modelled according to the OpenCitations Data Model.

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