W-log #8: An event on interdisciplinarity, more open citations available, UNIBO position paper on research

What happened? As introduced in one of the previous posts, the University of Bologna is organising a series of events dedicated to research fundamentals. On the 20th of May, a half-day conference devoted entirely to reliability, transparency, and reproducibility involved several national and international experts on the topic, who were engaged in keynote speeches and round tables. On the 9th of October, the new event of the series will be dedicated to the concept of interdisciplinarity. The event webpage includes the agenda and a registration form. The event is free and can be followed either in person or online. I hope to see you there!

What I did. At the beginning of August, we uploaded a paper describing the OpenCitations Index on arXiv, which has been accepted in Scientometrics. This work – coauthored with Ivan, Arianna and Marta – introduces the recent effort we have conducted at OpenCitations to revise the ingestion workflow of bibliographic metadata and citation data from five different sources (Crossref, DataCite, PubMed, OpenAIRE, JaLC) and integrate all their citations data into one collection, i.e. the Index, of over 2 billion unique citation links, which can be systematically accessed and queried through several services, including REST APIs and dataset dumps in various formats.

What to read. As an outcome of the first event of the series mentioned above, the University of Bologna has produced a position paper which highlights, enriched by the perspectives of international experts, the point of view and recommendation of the University on the reliability, transparency and reproducibility in research:

Credi, A., Masini, F., Diciotti, S., Forni, M., Peroni, S., Coppini, S., & Gualandi, B. (2024). Back to the Fundamentals of Research: Reliability, Transparency and Reproducibility. Position Paper [Position paper]. Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna. https://doi.org/10.6092/unibo/amsacta/7803