Chiara Di Giambattista

OpenCitations is excited to announce that the [California Digital
Library (CDL)](https://cdlib.org/){target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer noopener"} 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 **create an international academic and librarian dialogue**,
trusting in the idea that "*the university, its scholars and its
libraries thrive when we transcend organizational boundaries and commit
ourselves to shared investments*".

CDL's contribution will generously support OpenCitations throughout
2021-2023. CDL funding in the fiscal year 2020-2021 also includes two
other [SCOSS](https://opencitations.hypotheses.org/1212){target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer noopener"}-endorsed infrastructures, OAPEN and DOAB, the
non-profit organization Open Access Switchboard, and the services
PsyArXiv and SCOAP3 Books. As can be read in [the recent
post](https://cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2021/08/17/new-scholarly-communication-investments-by-cdl/){rel="noreferrer noopener"
target="_blank"} by Ellen Finnie, this investment reflects CDL's
*"commitment to 'invest in open' by allocating a portion of our
collections funding to the development of open content and
infrastructure in support of UC scholarship and teaching*".

OpenCitations team is grateful to be included in CDL's ongoing
investment in open infrastructure.  **Thank you!**


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.

California Digital Library invests in OpenCitations

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.

Silvio Peroni

[OpenAIRE-Nexus](https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101017452){rel="noreferrer noopener"
target="_blank"} is an H2020 project funded by the European Commission
which aims at bringing together, within the [European Open Science Cloud
(EOSC)](https://ec.europa.eu/info/research-and-innovation/strategy/goals-research-and-innovation-policy/open-science/european-open-science-cloud-eosc_en){rel="noreferrer noopener"
target="_blank"}, fourteen new services focused on the development and
promotion of Open Science. **OpenCitations is directly involved** in
this project through the Department of Classical Philology and Italian
Studies at the University of Bologna.

In the context of this OpenAIRE-Nexus project, our goal is to make all
services offered by OpenCitations compatible with OpenAIRE, so as to
guarantee semantic and technical interoperability with all the other
Open Science services available in the EOSC. For this purpose, we now
seek applicants for a new **one-year research fellowship to be held from
May 2021** (renewable for an additional year), for which the application
closing deadline is **31 March 2021**.

The goal of the Research Fellowship is to study the current limitations
of the OpenCitations infrastructure, and possible improvements to
introduce into it, in order to integrate it with OpenAIRE and the EOSC.
The Research Fellow, who will work in collaboration with Silvio Peroni,
Director of OpenCitations, is expected to address issues relating to the
provision of Web services, the management of distributed and
heterogeneous databases, and data ingestion and conversion processes.

The Call for Applications (in Italian and in English) is [available
online](https://bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/assegni-ricerca?id_bando=53234){rel="noreferrer noopener"
target="_blank"} on the website of the University of Bologna. It also
includes an attachment with a description of OpenCitations and of the
activities related to the position. The position has a **net salary**
(exempt from income tax, after deduction of social security
contributions) in excess of **20K** euros per year. As indicated in the
Call for Applications, candidates need to apply exclusively through the
[University of Bologna web
portal](https://personale.unibo.it/pol/welcome.htm?siteLanguage=en).

For further information, please contact Silvio Peroni (email: silvio
*dot* peroni *at* unibo *dot* it).


OpenAIRE-Nexus is an H2020 project funded by the European Commission which aims at bringing together, within the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), fourteen new services focused on the development and promotion of Open Science.
<strong>
 OpenCitations is directly involved
</strong>
in this project through the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies at the University of Bologna.

New research fellowship position to work on the EOSC

A year ago, at the end of 2019, OpenCitations was selected by the Global
Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS,
[https://scoss.org](https://scoss.org/)) for its second round of
crowdfunding support, since SCOSS believes that OpenCitations aligns
well with Open Science goals and is an innovative service. The goal of
such support is to enable OpenCitations' operations over the next three
years as it transitions into a global scholarly infrastructure
organization with a secure financial footing. As part of this work, we
now plan **to strengthen the current technical and computational
infrastructure** (server, parallel processing, backup, etc.) used by
OpenCitations, which is currently hosted at the University of Bologna.

For this purpose, 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**. The principal goals of this
research fellowship are:

1.  to study the current limitations of the OpenCitations infrastructure
    and introduce improvements, and
2.  to design and implement new software control tools that will enable
    us to manage the infrastructure more efficiently.

Additionally, the selected research fellow will be expected to address
issues relating to the provision of Web services, the management of
distributed and heterogeneous databases, OpenCitations' data conversion
and ingestion processes involving parallel computing, and the overall
security of the infrastructure. Particular attention will need to be
given to data preservation and to the long-term maintenance and updating
of the infrastructure.

The Call for Applications (in Italian and in English) is [available
online](https://bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/assegni-ricerca?id_bando=53108)
on the website of the University of Bologna. It also includes an
attachment with a description of OpenCitations and of the activities
related to the position. The position has a **net salary** (exempt from
income tax, after deduction of social security contributions) in excess
of **23K** euros per year. As indicated in the Call for Applications,
candidates need to apply exclusively through the [University of Bologna
web portal](https://personale.unibo.it/pol/welcome.htm?siteLanguage=en).


A year ago, at the end of 2019, OpenCitations was selected by the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS, https://scoss.org) for its second round of crowdfunding support, since SCOSS believes that OpenCitations aligns well with Open Science goals and is an innovative service.

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California Digital Library invests in OpenCitations

New research fellowship position to work on the EOSC

Seeking applicants for three-year research fellowship position