OurResearch explained

OurResearch
Logo Alt:Logo of OurResearch
Formation:[1]
Founder:Jason Priem
Heather Piwowar
Type:Nonprofit Organization
Tax Id:46-1599252
Status:501(c)(3) organization
Headquarters:Sanford, NC[2]
Location:Vancouver
Services:Unpaywall, Unsub, OpenAlex, ImpactStory, Depsy
Formerly:ImpactStory

OurResearch, formerly known as ImpactStory, is a nonprofit organization that creates and distributes tools and services for libraries, institutions and researchers. The organization follows open practices with their data (to the extent allowed by providers' terms of service), code,[3] and governance.[4] OurResearch is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation,[5] the National Science Foundation,[6] and Arcadia Fund.[7] [8]

Services

ImpactStory

ImpactStory is the first open source, web-based tool released by OurResearch. It provides altmetrics to help researchers measure the impacts of their research outputs including journal articles, blog posts, datasets, and software.[9] This aims to change the focus of the scholarly reward system to value and encourage web-native scholarship.

It provides context to its metrics so that they are meaningful without knowledge of the specific dataset: for example, instead of letting the reader guess whether having five forks on GitHub is common, ImpactStory would tell that the repository is in the 95th percentile of all GitHub repositories created that year.[10]

The metrics provided by ImpactStory can be used by researchers who want to know how many times their work has been downloaded and shared,[11] and also research funders who are interested in the impact of research beyond only considering citations to journal articles.

Unpaywall

Unpaywall, begun as an interface for oaDOI.org,[12] [13] is a browser extension[14] which finds legal free versions of (paywalled) scholarly articles.[15] In July 2018, Unpaywall was reported to provide free access to 20 million articles,[1] which accounts for about 47% of the articles that people search for with Unpaywall.[16] As of 2024, Unpaywall claims to provide access to 49 million free articles.[17] It further states that "Unpaywall users read 52% of research papers for free".[18] In June 2017, it was integrated into Web of Science, and in July 2018, Elsevier announced plans the same month to integrate the service into the Scopus search engine.[1]

GetTheResearch.org

In 2019, GetTheResearch.org[19] was announced as a search engine for open access content found by Unpaywall, with machine learning features to facilitate discoverability.[20]

Unsub

Unsub,[21] previously Unpaywall Journals,[22] was launched in 2019[23] as a data analysis tool for libraries to estimate the actual cost and value of their subscriptions.[24]

The tool reduces information asymmetry in negotiations over subscriptions with publishers: in its paid tailored version, it allows to merge Unpaywall data about open access status and expected evolution in 5 years,[25] article processing charges, usage statistics and the libraries' own parameters[26] (such as the cost of ILL[27]) to calculate various indicators[28] including the cost effectiveness or net cost per use[29] of a current or planned subscription (or lack thereof).

Unpaywall Journals was used in 2020 by the SUNY Libraries Consortium to assist in the cancellation of their big deal with Elsevier, which was replaced by a subscription to 248 titles,[30] allowing expected savings of 50–70% over the baseline, or 5 to 7 million dollars per year.[31]

OpenAlex

OpenAlex[32] is an open catalog of scholarly papers, authors, institutions, and more. OpenAlex launched in January 2022 with a free API and data snapshot.[33] The purpose of OpenAlex is to catalog publication sources, author information, and research topics. It also shows connections between these data points to provide a comprehensive, interlinked view of the global research system.[34] It is considered an alternative to the Microsoft Academic Graph, which retired on December 31, 2021.[35] [36]

OpenAlex contains extensive metadata across scientific works, authors, publication venues, institutions, and concepts. Specifically, it includes metadata for 209 million works such as journal articles and books; 13 million authors with disambiguated identities; metadata for 124,000 venues that host works, including journals and online repositories; metadata for 109,000 institutions; and 65,000 concepts from Wikidata, which are algorithmically linked to works using an automated hierarchical multi-tag classifier.[37]

See also

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Else . Holly . How Unpaywall is transforming open science . Nature . 15 August 2018 . 560 . 7718 . 290–291 . 10.1038/D41586-018-05968-3. 30111793 . 2018Natur.560..290E . free .
  2. Web site: Entry of Impactstory in GuideStar. GuideStar . 2020-11-13. 2020-11-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20201125000756/https://www.guidestar.org/profile/46-1599252. live.
  3. Web site: ImpactStory total-impact. GitHub. 1 January 2014. 6 October 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131006122049/https://github.com/total-impact. live.
  4. Web site: Sloan Foundation grant submitted. 1 March 2012. ImpactStory blog. 1 January 2014. 2 January 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140102192046/http://blog.impactstory.org/2012/03/01/18535014681/. live.
  5. Web site: About. ImpactStory. 1 January 2014. 25 December 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131225185225/http://impactstory.org/about. live.
  6. Web site: ImpactStory awarded $300k NSF grant!. ImpactStory. 27 September 2013 . 2 January 2014. 27 September 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130927211421/http://blog.impactstory.org/2013/09/27/impactstory-awarded-300k-nsf-grant/. live.
  7. Web site: This tool is saving universities millions of dollars in journal subscriptions. July 9, 2020. Science | AAAS. November 13, 2020. November 1, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201101013621/https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/tool-saving-universities-millions-dollars-journal-subscriptions. live.
  8. Web site: Impactstory awarded $850k to build open-access, AI-powered scholarly search engine, aims to help public find and understand research . https://web.archive.org/web/20190819091451/http://blog.impactstory.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Impactstory-press-release.pdf . August 19, 2019 . ImpactStory .
  9. Web site: Priem. Jason. The launch of ImpactStory: using altmetrics to tell data-driven stories. Impact of Social Sciences. LSE. 1 January 2014. Heather Piwowar. 25 September 2012. 2 January 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140102193650/http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2012/09/25/the-launch-of-impactstor/. live.
  10. Web site: ImpactStory adds figshare integration. Research Information. 1 January 2014. 3 December 2013. 2 January 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140102200219/http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=1443. live.
  11. Web site: Eisen. Jonathan. Playing with Impact Story to look at Alt Metrics for my papers, data, etc. The Tree of Life. 1 January 2014. 29 November 2012. 23 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141023055123/http://phylogenomics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/playing-with-impact-story-to-look-at.html. live.
  12. Web site: Paste in a DOI . oaDOI . Impactstory . 23 October 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161023200303/https://oadoi.org/ . 2016-10-23 . 23 October 2016 . Leap over tall paywalls in a single bound..
  13. Web site: About . oaDOI . Impactstory . 23 October 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161023200303/https://oadoi.org/about . 2016-10-23 . 31 May 2017 . We look for open copies of articles using the following data sources: ....
  14. Web site: Coldewey . Devin . Unpaywall scours the web for free versions of scientific papers . TechCrunch . 5 April 2017 . 16 August 2018 . 16 August 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180816162141/https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/05/unpaywall-scours-the-web-for-free-versions-of-scientific-papers/ . live .
  15. Chawla . Dalmeet Singh . Unpaywall finds free versions of paywalled papers . Nature . 4 April 2017 . 10.1038/nature.2017.21765. 86694031 .
  16. Web site: Doctorow . Cory . Unpaywall: a search-engine for authorized, freely accessible versions of scholarly journal articles . . 6 February 2018 . 2018-08-16 . 2018-08-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180816162119/https://boingboing.net/2018/02/06/search-engine-arbitrage.html . live .
  17. Web site: Unpaywall . 2024-04-24 . unpaywall.org.
  18. Web site: Unpaywall . 2024-04-24 . unpaywall.org.
  19. Web site: Get The Research . gettheresearch.org . 23 October 2022.
  20. Web site: Gary. Price. 2020-04-25. Impactstory Announces Beta Release of "Get The Research" Search Engine. LJ infoDOCKET. 15 May 2019 . 2020-05-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20200519074024/https://www.infodocket.com/2019/05/15/impactstory-announces-beta-release-of-get-the-research-search-engine/. live.
  21. Web site: Unsub. unsub.org. 2021-01-16. 2021-01-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20210122052619/https://unsub.org/. live.
  22. Web site: 2020-05-19. Taking a Big Bite Out of the Big Deal. 2020-05-19. The Scholarly Kitchen. Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe. 2020-05-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20200525211331/https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2020/05/19/taking-a-big-bite-out-of-the-big-deal/. live.
  23. Unpaywall. Zenodo . 2019-11-26. 10.5281/zenodo.3553751 . free . Piwowar. Heather. 2020-04-18. 2020-08-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20200806133102/https://zenodo.org/record/3553751. live.
  24. Web site: 2020-04-25. Unpaywall Journals - possibly the most interesting thing to happen this year in library subscription land.. ScholCommsProd . 2019-11-06. Ian Mulvany. 2020-04-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20200422153853/http://scholarly-comms-product-blog.com/2019/11/06/unpaywall_journals_-_possibly_the_most_interesting_thing_to_happen_this_year_in_library_subscription_land._/. live.
  25. Heather. Piwowar. Jason. Priem. Richard. Orr. The Future of OA: A large-scale analysis projecting Open Access publication and readership. bioRxiv. 2019-10-09. 795310. 10.1101/795310 . free . 208591684 . free . 2020-04-18. 2020-03-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20200310015724/https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/795310v1. live.
  26. Web site: Piwowar . Heather . Configuration settings . Unpaywall . 19 June 2020 . en . 9 August 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200809022217/https://support.unpaywall.org/support/solutions/articles/44001822208-configuration-settings . dead . 7 Jan 2020 .
  27. Web site: Piwowar . Heather . Overview . 25 Feb 2020 . Unpaywall . 19 June 2020 . en . 9 August 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200809014841/https://support.unpaywall.org/support/solutions/articles/44001822204-page-overview . dead .
  28. Web site: Piwowar . Heather . Description of data fields . Unpaywall . 14 Jan 2020 . 19 June 2020 . en . 9 August 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200809031711/https://support.unpaywall.org/support/solutions/articles/44001843595-description-of-data-fields . dead .
  29. Web site: Piwowar . Heather . Cost Effectiveness (NCPPU) . Unpaywall . 8 Jan 2020 . 19 June 2020 . en . 9 August 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200809014650/https://support.unpaywall.org/support/solutions/articles/44001822684-cost-effectiveness . dead .
  30. Web site: 2020-04-18. SUNY Negotiates New, Modified Agreement with Elsevier . Libraries News Center University at Buffalo Libraries . April 7, 2020 . Denise . Wolfe . 2020-05-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20200514201133/https://library.buffalo.edu/news/2020/04/07/suny-negotiates-new-modified-agreement-with-elsevier/. live.
  31. Web site: Shannon. Pritting. 2020-04-18. Elsevier Update. SUNY Libraries Consortium . April 7, 2020 . 2020-04-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418101851/http://slcny.libguides.com/slc/elsevier2020update. live.
  32. Web site: OpenAlex. 2022-01-16.
  33. Web site: Piwowar. Heather. 2022-01-06. OpenAlex launch!. OurResearch blog.
  34. Singh Chawla . Dalmeet . 2022-01-24 . Massive open index of scholarly papers launches . Nature . en . 10.1038/d41586-022-00138-y. 35075274 . 246278314 .
  35. Web site: Next Steps for Microsoft Academic - Expanding into New Horizons. 2021-05-28. Microsoft Research. 4 May 2021 .
  36. 2022-01-20. Fossil-record bias and huge research database. Nature. en. 601. 7893. 303. 10.1038/d41586-022-00103-9. 2022Natur.601..303. . 256820124 . 0028-0836.
  37. OpenAlex: A fully-open index of scholarly works, authors, venues, institutions, and concepts . 2205.01833 . Priem . Jason . Piwowar . Heather . Orr . Richard . 2022 . cs.DL .

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