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OpenAlex is a powerful, free, and open-source tool designed to enhance the process of literature search across the global research landscape. Named after the ancient Library of Alexandria, OpenAlex was developed by OurResearch, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing open science. OpenAlex offers comprehensive access to scholarly metadata, making it an indispensable resource for anyone engaged in academic literature discovery.
As an open catalogue, OpenAlex includes a vast array of scholarly works, authors, institutions as journals and repositories, and concepts, providing a rich source of literature for any search. Its goal is to index and link the world’s research output in a freely accessible, user-friendly platform. Unlike commercial databases like Scopus or Web of Science, OpenAlex is fully open, offering its data under a CC0 license, which allows for unrestricted use and reuse, empowering users to conduct thorough and flexible literature searches without limitations.
As an open catalogue, OpenAlex includes a vast array of scholarly works, authors, institutions as journals and repositories, and concepts, providing a rich source of literature for any search. Its goal is to index and link the world’s research output in a freely accessible, user-friendly platform. Unlike commercial databases like Scopus or Web of Science, OpenAlex is fully open, offering its data under a CC0 license, which allows for unrestricted use and reuse, empowering users to conduct thorough and flexible literature searches without limitations.
- Over 264 million scholarly outputs, including journal articles, books, datasets, and more.
- Approximately 102 million disambiguated author profiles, with 8 million linked to ORCID identifiers.
- Metadata for over 250,000 journals, repositories, and other publication sources.
- Indexes about 109,000 institutions