The OpenAlex launch is going well!  Thanks for all of your feedback, comments, questions, and help spreading the word.  A few updates for you below.

Snapshot updates

There is a new native-format snapshot, with the following updates:

• includes “abstract_inverted_index” in works
• includes “raw_affiliation_string” in works.authorships (thanks for requesting this!)
• includes “cited_by_api_url” in works is now a string not a list (sorry! the list was a bug)
• corrected the spelling of institution.associated_institutions
• “ids” dict doesn’t include entries for empty ids anymore (simplifies the data)

This new snapshot doesn’t have additional new works since the previous one, but we expect new works to be added in the next week, and approximately every 2 weeks after that.  A new MAG-format snapshot including new works will also be release at that time.  Each new snapshot will contain articles published up to just a few days before the snapshot release (rather than several weeks old as was the case with MAG). 

API updates

The same changes as described above for the snapshot, importantly including the “abstract_inverted_index” in the list and filter endpoints.

Nature write-up

The OpenAlex launch was covered in Nature this week!  You can read about it here:  https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00138-y  
We are really happy to hear that people are finding it easy to use!

OpenAlex Tips of the Day

We have been posting tips for using OpenAlex on Twitter every weekday.  

You can see past tips at this search link (whether you have a twitter account or not), and you can follow us on twitter here: @openalex_org

Questions?

We’d love to hear from you: team@ourresearch.org