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OpenAlex is a fully open catalog of the global research system. It's named after the ancient Library of Alexandria.​
The OpenAlex dataset describes scholarly entities and how those entities are connected to each other. There are five types of entities:
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 Works are papers, books, datasets, etc; they cite other works
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 Authors are people who create works
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 Venues are journals and repositories that host works
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 Institutions are universities and other orgs that are affiliated with works (via authors)
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 Concepts tag Works with a topic
Together, these make a huge web (or more technically, heterogeneous directed graph) of of hundreds of millions of entities and over a billion connections between them all.
There are three ways to access the OpenAlex dataset:
the API​
the website (launching February 2022), and
the database snapshot.
This documentation has sections for each of these three. There are also a section about the entity objects that make up OpenAlex, as well as information about the data more broadly, and of course a FAQ.
OpenAlex is made with love by OurResearch, with generous support from Arcadia—a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.
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