OpenCitations has always existed thanks to and for its community, a diverse network of institutions and individuals who believe in the value of open scholarly data. As a community-based open infrastructure, our strength lies in collaboration. The insights, feedback, and experiences shared by our community partners are what help us refine our services and keep our mission aligned with the evolving global research ecosystem.

After months of work behind the scenes, we’re thrilled to unveil the new OpenCitations website!   Whether you’re a researcher, service provider, librarian, or open knowledge advocate, we want the new site to help you engage more easily and meaningfully with our work. This new website is part of a wider rebranding initiative that began earlier … Continue reading Welcome to the new OpenCitations website!

SAVE THE DATE Opening Research Assessment Final Conference of the GraspOS Project 12–13 November 2025 CNR Area della Ricerca di Pisa, Italy We are pleased to announce the Final Conference of the GraspOS project: Opening Research Assessment, taking place on 12–13 November 2025 in Pisa, Italy.

OPERAS hosted the launch of the GRAPHIA project in Brussels earlier this year.

When navigating our social media platforms in the past three days, you may have noticed a blurred and colourful spot in the place of our usual logo.

January is a strange month. After the festive whirl of December’s gatherings, it quickly shifts into the hustle and bustle of the new year’s commitments and the work that follows the holidays.

The International Advisory Board for OpenCitations is one of the four organizational bodies which define OpenCitations’s governance structure (Director; Council; Advisory Board;

OpenCitations and the Barcelona Declaration are happy to announce that the call for participation and contributions to the Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata 2025 is now open.

This blog post is the first of a series which will highlight some of the ways OpenCitations is currently adopted and used by the community. This series also gives us the chance to thank our users for trusting OpenCitations and for giving us the opportunity to improve our services through their feedback.

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.

If you are a leader of a Library or a Research Institution and would like to learn more about the existing open infrastructures that could help your institution to evolve in the research environment, but you don’t know where to look for, you can now use Infra Finder, a brand-new tool aimed at foster discovery, … Continue reading Find OpenCitations on Infra Finder, a new tool to discover and support Open Infrastructures