The Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata will come back to Bologna, on 26-27 October 2023.

OpenCitations recalls what has achieved over the past year, in terms of technical developments, community building, and internal organization.

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.

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 … Continue reading Discover POCI, the index

*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 OpenCitations Index of Datacite open DOI-to-DOI citations

The Wikipedia entry for OpenCitations is woefully out of date, inaccurate and brief. As Directors of OpenCitations, Silvio and I are unable to improve this situation because of Wikipedia’s proper conflict-of-interest restriction on self-promotion. OpenCitations is actively seeking greater involvement from members of the global academic community, as explained in our Mission Statement.

OpenCitations has happily joined the open-source social media platform joinmastodon.org.

Blog post by Ivan Heibi (Universiy of Bologna) and Arcangelo Massari (University of Bologna). OpenCitations publishes the COCI dataset after each new release in three main formats: CSV, N-Triples, and Scholix (see https://opencitations.net/download#coci). The CSV format is the most popular and downloaded one due to its comprehensive data organization (i.e. tabular format) and smaller size (compared to the other formats provided).

We’re happy to announce the 3rd edition of the Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata (WOOC2022) , to be held online on 5 October 2022 (h. 15-18 CEST) . It has now been two years since the last edition of the Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata (WOOC2020) took place as an online event.