Webinar: Practical Applications of Open Infrastructure Tools for Scholarly Communication, Feb 20, 3pm GMT | OASPA

OASPA is pleased to announce our forthcoming online seminar which will focus on three emerging open infrastructure tools and platforms: OpenCitations, OpenAlex, and Thoth Open Metadata. Free and equitable access to scholarly research is not only predicated on its open access nature, but also on the scholarly communications infrastructures through which this research is disseminated and made discoverable. Grounded in the Open Science principles, the speakers will showcase how open infrastructure, with regard to bibliographic information, knowledge graphs, and book metadata, contributes to fostering a more transparent and equitable research landscape and how publishers and others can use their services.

Each of our three speakers will give a 15-minute overview of the service they provide, and how it can improve research workflows, research data management, and discoverability:

• Silvio Peroni will introduce OpenCitations (OpenCitations), a repository of open scholarly citation data that supports enhanced citation tracking and interoperability
• Jason Priem will present OpenAlex (OpenAlex), a rapidly growing index of scholarly works, authors, and institutions.
• Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei will discuss Thoth (Thoth), an open-source platform for open metadata management and dissemination

Chaired by Catriona MacCallum, we will then open it up to questions from the audience and discussion.

Please join us live for this free webinar and contribute to the discussion.

Link to registration page: https://bit.ly/registration-feb20-2025

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