📢 New Blog Post!

@cali and Eline Vandewalle share some preliminary findings from an exploratory study on independent researchers 📚.
They use OpenAlex data to trace research interests and career paths, providing insights into the world of independent research, while also sharing their experience with open and federated data solutions 🔓.

Read the full post here 👉 https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/independent-researchers-traces-in-bibliographic-data

#IndependentResearchers #BibliographicData #OpenData

Najko Jahn, Nick Haupka & Anne Hoberz (@ahein1) published an important piece on inconsistencies in the @OpenAlex #openaccess classification.

While this does not look good for #Openalex, I see this as an upside of having #openresearchinformation. Issues like this can be discovered, discussed + addressed. And the #library / #bibliometrics / #informationscience communities at large has an interest in it: we all benefit from better metadata.

https://subugoe.github.io/scholcomm_analytics/posts/oalex_oa_status/

Thanks: @KaliuzhnaN @carelsne

En route to Tromsø right now, to attend and present on @Thoth_metadata and the Thoth Archiving Network at #Munin2023 tomorrow, together with @copim Archiving &Preservation colleagues Gareth Cole and Miranda Barnes ... #OAbooks #archiving #MetadataMatters #

Here's our presentation brief https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SCS/article/view/7140

This Thursday November 9, 11-13h CET, #SciLake and #SIRISAcademic organize a highly interesting webinar about open research information.

Jason Priem will talk about the many exciting developments taking place around @OpenAlex https://openalex.org/.

@neesjanvaneck will talk about the open edition of the @cwts Leiden Ranking that will be released in January 2024 https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe-universities-2023-9-leiden-rankings-to-add-open-source-version-in-2024/.

Register now at https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_H2lntvCuQNufmloWBahcVA#/registration.

Scientometric analyses should be based on open data!

This week @MsPhelps, @cameronneylon, @LucyMontgomery_, @neesjanvaneck and I organized highly successful first edition of the @cwts #COKI course 'Scientometrics Using Open Data' https://www.cwts.nl/education/cwts-course-program/scientometrics-using-open-data. Next edition is expected in spring 2024.

Do you recognize anyone on the photo? These colleagues can tell you more about the opportunities offered by open data sources!

@OpenAlex @opencitations @openaire_eu @crossref @datacite @europepmc_news