Scholarly Communication @ UTampa

From the vendor's website: At the heart of OpenAlex is our dataset—a catalog of works. A work is any sort of scholarly output. A research article is one kind of work, but there are others such as datasets, books, and dissertations. We keep track of these works—their titles (and abstracts and full text in many cases), when they were created, etc. But that's not all we do. We also keep track of the connections between these works, finding associations through things like journals, authors, institutional affiliations, citations, concepts, and funders. There are hundreds of millions of works out there, and tens of thousands more being created every day, so it's important that we have these relationships to help us make sense of research at a large scale.

OpenAlex offers an open replacement for industry-standard scientific knowledge bases like Elsevier's Scopus and Clarivate's Web of Science. Compared to these paywalled services, OpenAlex offers significant advantages in terms of inclusivity, affordability, and availability.

OpenAlex is:

• Big — We strive to be as comprehensive and inclusive as possible, especially for works in other languages and the Global South.
• Easy — Our service is fast, modern, and well-documented.
• Open — Our complete dataset is free under the CC0 license, which allows for transparency and reuse.