OpenAlex
Discovery · OurResearch, a non-profit
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An open catalogue of works, authors, journals and institutions, useful for tracing citations without a subscription database.
Before you rely on itIt is a metadata catalogue, not a library: it tells you what exists and links out, but hosts no full text itself.
Use it to see who has cited a paper, or to map an unfamiliar field before you start reading.Telebem editors
Details
- How you get in
- Free to readOpen to anyone, no account needed.
- Rights
- Openly licensedThe rights holder published it free, usually under Creative Commons.
- Subjects
- General
- Formats
- Web · Data
- Languages
- English interface, multilingual records
- Size
- OpenAlex describes itself as a CC0 catalogue of more than 250 million scholarly works.
- Run by
- OurResearch, a non-profit
- Address
- openalex.org
What we checked
- Details checked
The name, address and search page were opened and checked against each other. Last run .
- Access confirmed
Not checked yet. That is not a failure; it only means nobody has done this one.
- Used and reviewed
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Every library here is authorised; shadow libraries are not listed. What the marks cover
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