(10 Nov 2025) For decades, journal articles have been the gold standard of scholarly communication. And while they remain central to how academia measures impact, the landscape of research dissemination is shifting. Open repositories are playing a crucial role in this shift. Today we release the Altmetric Top 25 NTRO Repositories, shining a spotlight on…
(27 Sept 2025) The attached article discusses the recent significant reduction in the availability of abstracts for scholarly articles from major publishers like Elsevier and Springer Nature on open academic metadata aggregators such as OpenAlex. Over recent years, AI-powered academic search tools have heavily relied on open abstracts for effective research discovery. However, since…
(24 Mar 2025) Tanaka Ryonosuke of the Acquisitions and Bibliography Department, National Diet Library, introduces the transition of the Japanese National Bibliography from paper-based formats to digital data, now known as the Japanese National Bibliographic Data in this article. It began with “Nohon Geppo” in 1948 and evolved to digital formats with JAPAN/MARC in…
New Report Shares Findings from a Qualitative Study of Researchers at 29 Higher Ed Institutions. (27 Mar 2025) Ithaka S+R collaborated over the past two years with 29 US and Canadian institutions to develop strategies for improving the coordination of research data support services offered across different campus offices. The project included the collection of institution-level data about the…
(12 Dec 2024) For nearly twenty-five years, the Library of Congress has been archiving campaign websites for Presidential, Congressional, and gubernatorial elections. Back in 2022, we released a dataset of index files for the United States Elections Web Archive, and we are happy to announce that this dataset is being relaunched as data package on data.labs.loc.gov/packages/, with new resources to help…
(2 Dec 2024) New analysis suggests that open data practice is now on the edge of becoming a standard, recognized and supported scholarly output, globally. As part of the latest in the State of Open Data series, produced by partners Digital Science, Figshare and Springer Nature, direct author-sharing practices have been analyzed from a funder, country…
(21 Oct 2024) A study by IOP Publishing (IOPP) has highlighted differences in how physical science research communities adopt open data sharing and the various barriers they encounter. Over 30,000 research articles were analysed for the study, with the findings released in IOPP’s whitepaper “Bringing researchers on board: Navigating the barriers to sharing data publicly”.…
(16 Sep 2024) CODATA and the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) are delighted to announce the publication of the machine-actionable CODATA Research Data Management Terminology (RDMT). The Terminology is open to the public and free to use via the ARDC’s Research Vocabularies Australia (RVA) service at https://vocabs.ardc.edu.au/viewById/685. The RDMT enables those working on research data management…
(15 Apr 2024) “Collections as data” research is an initiative based on researchers using digital collections as the dataset for analysis with the help of computational methods, such as text mining, data visualization, mapping, image analysis, audio analysis, and network analysis. For example, if a historian needs to investigate a specific topic over time, manually reviewing…
(11 Apr 2024) At last month’s CHORUS Forum: 12 Best Practices for Research Data Sharing speakers addressed the Joint Statement on Research Data Sharing by STM, DataCite and Crossref. Here is the summary of all presentations, recording of the forum.