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