21/10/2020
« A Wikimedia initiative to develop open citations and linked bibliographic data to serve free knowledge. WikiCite is a series of conferences and workshops in support of that goal.…
12/10/2020
« New sources of citation data have recently become available, such as Microsoft Academic, Dimensions, and the OpenCitations Index of CrossRef open DOI-to-DOI citations (COCI). Although these have been compared to…
12/08/2020
« Semantic Web technologies are widely used for storing RDF data and making them available on the Web through SPARQL endpoints, queryable using the SPARQL query language. While the use of…
27/05/2020
« A variety of schemas and ontologies are currently used for the machine-readable description of bibliographic entities and citations. This diversity, and the reuse of the same ontology terms with different…
23/04/2020
« The Coronavirus Open Citations Dataset curated by OpenCitations currently contains (as of 20 April 2020) information about 124,295 citations and about the 42,213 citing or cited articles involved in these…
26/03/2020
« (…) The fourth release of COCI contains more than 655 million DOI-to-DOI citation links between more than 55 million bibliographic entities. The additional 31 million citations added in the new…
10/03/2020
Le Fonds national pour la science ouverte (FNSO) décide de soutenir trois infrastructures internationales de la science ouverte dans le cadre de l’initiative Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services…
22/01/2020
« (…) We are now proud to announce the third release of COCI, which contains more than 624 million DOI-to-DOI citation links coming from both ‘the ‘Open’ and the ‘Limited’ sets…
06/12/2019
« The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS), of which SPARC Europe is a founding member, is launching its second funding cycle; three vetted “vital open infrastructure” services are…
17/10/2019
« Citation data have remained hidden behind proprietary, restrictive licensing agreements, which raises barriers to entry for analysts wishing to use the data, increases the expense of performing large-scale analyses, and…