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Policy Analyst at European Research Council (ERC) Executive Agency. Tweets and all other activities and opinion here strictly in personal capacity.
OpenCitationsIt is with deep sadness and sorrow that we announce the passing of OpenCitations Founder and Co-Director Prof. David M. Shotton on Saturday, 18th May.
We want to celebrate the profound impact of his intellectual and human legacy through the words of those who knew him as a colleague in the context of his work in OpenCitations and the Open Science ecosystem but above all as a guide and a friend:
https://opencitations.hypotheses.org/3618
Remembering David M. Shotton, Founder and Co-Director of OpenCitations
The Founder and Co-Director of OpenCitations, Prof. David M. Shotton, peacefully passed away on Saturday, 18th May, after a long battle against illness. With his death, OpenCitations lost a Director, a Mentor, and a Guide. OpenCitations wouldn’t have existed without David’s foresight, which led him to design the first prototype of OpenCitations as a one-year … Continue reading Remembering David M. Shotton, Founder and Co-Director of OpenCitations
Bianca Kramer@opencitations So sorry to hear the sad news. David has been such a powerful voice and driving force for open infrastructure and open metadata, and will be missed by so many.
OurResearch receives $7.5M grant from Arcadia to establish OpenAlex, a milestone development for Open Science https://blog.ourresearch.org/ourresearch-receives-7-5m-grant-from-arcadia-to-establish-openalex-a-milestone-development-for-open-science/
@OpenAlex @cwts This could be of interest for you, A mapping of # opencitations to #OpenAlex : https://scicomm.xyz/@opencitations/111968766212481111
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Attached: 1 image On Feb. 23, #OpenCitations' developer Elia Rizzetto will present the paper "Mapping Bibliographic Metadata Collections: The Case of OpenCitations Meta and OpenAlex" at #IRCDL2024, during the session "Open Science & Education" (h.11:30-13 CET). Read the paper: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3643/paper15.pdf @[email protected] #OpenCitationsMeta #OpenAlex
On Feb. 23, #OpenCitations' developer Elia Rizzetto will present the paper "Mapping Bibliographic Metadata Collections: The Case of OpenCitations Meta and OpenAlex" at #IRCDL2024, during the session "Open Science & Education" (h.11:30-13 CET). Read the paper: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3643/paper15.pdf
The Open Edition of the Leiden Ranking is a collaboration between @cwts COKI, and @MsPhelps of Sesame Open Science. It's the first major step in the ranking's transition to a fully open and transparent future. Learn more here: https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/introducing-the-leiden-ranking-open-edition
Introducing the Leiden Ranking Open Edition
This post introduces the Open Edition of the CWTS Leiden Ranking, published today by CWTS in collaboration with the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative, Sesame Open Science, and OurResearch. The Leiden Ranking Open Edition is the first fully transparent university ranking.
Today @cwtsleiden launches the Leiden Ranking Open Edition - fully based on open data, and with underlying data and code made openly available:
https://open.leidenranking.com/resources
Read more in detail about it on the @leidenmadtrics blog: https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/introducing-the-leiden-ranking-open-edition
This was a fruitful collaboration between CWTS, COKI (@cameronneylon and @LucyMontgomery_) and @OpenAlex that I was happy to be involved in - congrats @LudoWaltman @neesjanvaneck and the rest of the team for making it work!
Cameron NeylonLast week COKI was very excited to run a webinar in collaboration with Future Campus with @lizziegadd and @LudoWaltman on the future of #UniversityRankings in an #OpenData world
The video is now up (although I have not yet finished editing the subtitles I'm afraid!)
The Future of Rankings in an Open Data World
So Elsevier is selling abstracts to be used in third-party discovery services (this is me assuming there is a monetary transaction)
https://www.sspnet.org/community/news/cactus-and-elsevier-join-hands-to-bring-19m-elsevier-research-abstracts-to-researchers-mobile-devices
The same Elsevier that, unlike many other publishers*, does not make abstracts publicly available through @crossref
