Ghilane5d ago
This is my first post on this new account, and I prefer to start with something genuinely useful for everyone.
Wispar: my favorite app for staying updated on scientific research


Struggling to keep up with the latest publications? Wispar makes it effortless.


Instant search via OpenAlex (free and open source)
Automatic free PDFs with Unpaywall
Personalized alerts for journals and keywords
Offline reading + Zotero sync
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An essential app for students, researchers, and curious minds. Simple, effective, free.


#Wispar #OpenAlex #Unpaywall #OpenScience #Research #Productivity #FOSS #Zotero #Students #Researchers #Android #iPhone #iOS #FOSSAndroid #AppStore
Wispar | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Stay up-to-date with academic journals and the latest research articles!

v_i_o_l_aApr 2
"A new environment for license negotiations: 40% of recent articles in the top publishers' subscription/hybrid journals are freely available online" @ The Journal of Academic Librarianship:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2026.103241
#OpenAccess #GoogleScholar #Licensing #Negotiation #OpenAlex #Unpaywall
ndocistSep 1, 2025
#Unpaywall improvements: more gold, better green - OurResearch blog
#openaccess
Unpaywal est intégré aux #discoverytools des #bibliothèques
Est-il couramment utilisé par les publics de l'#ESR ? Je parle d'Unpaywall mais on peut se poser la question aussi pour les discovery tools des BU...
https://blog.ourresearch.org/unpaywall-improvements-more-gold-better-green/
Unpaywall improvements: more gold, better green - OurResearch blog

We recently announced that we’d completely rewritten Unpaywall to make it faster, more accurate, and (most importantly) easier to fix and improve. We wanted to move Unpaywall from product to process, something we could continuously improve along with the community. Well, we’ve been working hard on that over the last few months and here’s an […]

OurResearch blog
Jens MittelbachAug 29, 2025

Unpaywall makes a big leap in gold OA accuracy. OJS, J-STAGE, SciELO, MDPI data + new logic = bump from 14% to 19% gold. Green OA logic improved too. A new curation portal + OpenAlex code merge are next.
#OpenAccess #Unpaywall #OpenAlex

https://blog.ourresearch.org/unpaywall-improvements-more-gold-better-green/

Unpaywall improvements: more gold, better green - OurResearch blog

We recently announced that we’d completely rewritten Unpaywall to make it faster, more accurate, and (most importantly) easier to fix and improve. We wanted to move Unpaywall from product to process, something we could continuously improve along with the community. Well, we’ve been working hard on that over the last few months and here’s an […]

OurResearch blog
Jens MittelbachAug 9, 2025

OpenAlex is getting a major overhaul—in motion. The team is rebuilding OpenAlex and merging it with Unpaywall, adding 50M+ works, fixing legacy bugs, and enabling user curation—all while keeping schema and IDs stable.
#OpenAlex #Unpaywall #ScholarlyData

https://blog.ourresearch.org/were-rebuilding-openalex-while-its-running-heres-whats-changing/

We’re Rebuilding OpenAlex While It’s Running — Here’s What’s Changing - OurResearch blog

TLDR: 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. Why the change OpenAlex was written in a big hurry, to fill the gap left when Microsoft Academic Graph disappeared. The code was rushed […]

OurResearch blog
infoDOCKETJul 29, 2025
Major Update to #Unpaywall Database (via #OurResearch) https://blog.ourresearch.org/major-update-to-unpaywall-database/
Show threadNemo_bis 🌈Jun 12, 2025
@jeroenbosman Well, #Unpaywall used to do this in the sense that they linked DOAJ and stated the first OA date (separately for repository copy and publisher copy), but recently they've been removing some of these features.
Nemo_bis 🌈Jun 5, 2025

Today in how #Elsevier ruins my mood: Pure repositories pollute #Unpaywall with garbage data.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396127
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396126

#OAbot #GreenOA #OpenAccess

Show threadNemo_bis 🌈Mar 26, 2025

It took ten years, but HAL has started implementing a part of it (https://www.ccsd.cnrs.fr/en/2023/12/hal-s-new-service-deposit-suggestions-for-automatic-import-of-open-access-publications/ ). Unlike @pintoch (https://antonin.delpeuch.eu/posts/retrospective-of-dissemin-and-thoughts-on-the-open-access-movement/ ), I consider this a success for Dissemin.

But we need more. Every repository should do it, but given the effort it's more realistically done by consortial, national or international bodies. Some parts of the service, like #OpenAlex / #Unpaywall and #InternetArchiveScholar, are so expensive we can probably afford just one to be shared by all global users.

HAL’s new service: deposit suggestions for automatic import of Open Access publications

Show threadNemo_bis 🌈Mar 3, 2025

@kfitz Do you accept #PublicDomain works by US government employees? About a million would need to be archived in some place #Unpaywall can find.
https://archive.org/details/@academic_public_domain

#OAintheUSA

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