« 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 indicating which articles are covered by these agreements. Typically, this data is available to libraries…
« 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…
« Abstracts are increasingly important given the rise of large language models (LLM) and generative AI. While OpenAlex provides a source of open abstracts in addition to Crossref, the takedown of abstracts from OpenAlex by two major publishers points to an increased commodification of abstracts. (…) »
« 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…
« This study aims to compare the geographical and disciplinary coverage of OA journals in three databases: OpenAlex, Scopus and the WoS. We used the ROAD database, managed by the ISSN International Centre, as a reference database which indexes 62,701 OA active resources (as of May 2024). Among the 62,701 active…
« (…) This paper contributes to this literature by assessing the completeness and accuracy of OpenAlex’s metadata related to language, through a comparison with WoS, as well as an in-depth manual validation of a sample of 6,836 articles. Results show that OpenAlex exhibits a far more balanced linguistic coverage than WoS.…
« (…) This paper analyses OpenAlex’s coverage and metadata availability of African-based publications. For this purpose, we compare OpenAlex with Scopus, WoS, and African Journals Online (AJOL). We first compare the coverage of African research publications in OpenAlex against that of WoS, Scopus, and AJOL. We then assess and compare the…
« À travers la base de données OpenAlex, l’Inist propose aux laboratoires de visualiser leur production scientifique avec Lodex.. (…) »
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« These are the video recordings for the presentation at the first OpenAlex virtual user conference, held May 30-31, 2024 »
Using OpenAlex data to analyze and communicate impact of open access in libraries and beyond
Comparing open abstracts in OpenAlex and Crossref
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« (…) The focus of this study, in addition to the cross-database comparison, is primarily on the coverage and analysis of the publication and document types contained in OpenAlex, as OpenAlex is becoming increasingly important as a free alternative to established proprietary providers for bibliometric analyses at libraries and universities. (…) »
