Lens.org - detailed review of a new open discovery and citation index | Musings about librarianship

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-11-20

Summary:

"I first read about Lens.org via a tweet on my way back from a conference in April 2018. There seemed to be something in the water at the time, as they was an explosion of new discovery services and idexes in the past few months, including Digital science's Dimensions, 1Science's 1Findr, Scilit and the new resurgent challenge to Google Scholar posed by Microsoft Academic....

I have come to realise that Lens might in fact be a far more exciting development than I thought. While it is true that the scholarly search portion of Lens might be perhaps mostly dominated by the voluminous data from Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG)Lens is far more than the sum of it's parts by combining open data from half a dozen open data sources. The other significant thing about Lens that differentiates it from the other search discovery and citation indexes is that it is run by Cambia a non-profit that seems committed to produce a open, free to use alternative to commerically owned and licensed indexes...."

Link:

https://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com/2018/11/lensorg-detailed-review-of-new-open.html

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Tags:

oa.new oa.lens oa.discoverability oa.citations oa.patents oa.search oa.tools

Date tagged:

11/20/2018, 13:44

Date published:

11/20/2018, 08:44