13/10/2025
« DataCite and OpenAlex have launched a new integration to amplify the discoverability and impact of open research, with over 92 million DataCite DOIs now available in OpenAlex. (…) »
02/10/2025
« 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. (…) »
23/09/2025
« Entre février et juillet 2025, l’équipe Bibliométrie de l’Université de Lorraine a mené un grand chantier de signalement des publications scientifiques de l’établissement au sein de la base de données OpenAlex. (…) »
03/09/2025
« Bibliometrics, whether used for research or research evaluation, relies on large multidisciplinary databases of research outputs and citation indices. The Web of Science (WoS) was the main supporting infrastructure of the field for more than 30 years until several new competitors emerged. OpenAlex, a bibliographic database launched in 2022, has…
03/09/2025
« Transformative agreements have become an important strategy in the transition to open access, with almost 1,200 such agreements registered by 2025. Despite their prevalence, these agreements suffer from important transparency limitations, most notably article-level metadata that indicates which articles are covered by these agreements. Typically, this data is available to…
25/08/2025
« (…) 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. (…) »
14/08/2025
« This study conducts a quantitative analysis of the inclusion of open access (OA) academic books in the OpenAlex and Web of Science (WoS) databases from 2004 to 2023. It explores the differences
and trends between the two databases in terms of the number of OA books, annual variations, and…
17/06/2025
« OpenAlex is a freely available bibliographic database that can be used for bibliometric studies. In this study, we compared certain field-normalized citation scores (NCS) from OpenAlex with those from three commercial databases (Web of Science, Scopus, and Dimensions). We were interested in the question whether the NCS from OpenAlex are…
15/04/2025
« This study aims to compare the geographical and disciplinary coverage of OA journals in three databases: OpenAlex, Scopus and the Web of Science (WoS). We used the Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources (ROAD), provided by the ISSN International Centre, as a reference to identify OA active journals (as of…
25/03/2025
« En décembre 2023, le MESR a mis en place un partenariat pluriannuel avec OpenAlex. En janvier 2024, le CNRS annonce se désabonner de Scopus (tout en maintenant l’abonnement au WoS) et va “opérer progressivement une bascule vers des outils bibliographiques libres et compatibles avec la politique de science ouverte de…