#openalex — Public Fediverse posts

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
100% private, open source, no ads

Android: F-Droid | Google Play
iPhone: App Store

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

"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

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/

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/

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.

@ethanwhite @OpenAlex Thanks for your work. Great to hear that OurResearch is, quote, "We're a lean, hustling, resilient nonprofit. After 10yrs, we're now 100% self-sustaining via earned revenue."
https://ourresearch.org/

As the makers of the #Unpaywall and #OpenAlex, among other tools, you've earn quite some recognition.

#ScientificPublishing

#France institutional repository of #scientificPublications @hal_fr has announced that it will now allow to collect automatically #openAccess version of papers they list.
This involves #openAlex data and then locating potential files via #unpaywall .

Note for those in France: they're willing to have people test this, notably those who have open access papers not yet in their base.

https://www.ccsd.cnrs.fr/2023/09/collecter-vos-publications-en-libre-acces-pour-les-importer-dans-hal/