For years, we’ve been working under the name OurResearch. That name sat at the top of our org chart, with three child projects under it: OpenAlex, Unpaywall, and Unsub. Starting today, things are simp...

OurResearch is proud to announce a grant of $688,800 from The Navigation Fund to develop and launch an open, sustainable, web-based research intelligence (RI) module for the OpenAlex website. Our goal...

OurResearch is proud to announce a $7.5M grant from Arcadia, to establish a sustainable and completely open index of the world’s research ecosystem.

YouTube video by OurResearch

YouTube video by OurResearch

I’m thrilled to share that Juan Pablo Alperin has been elected Chair of the OpenAlex Advisory Board! 🎉🎉🎉 Juan needs no introduction in the Open Science world: he’s faculty at Simon Fraser University...

The Witney Lab at King's College London. Specialising in the development of advanced cancer imaging tools.

For years, we’ve been working under the name OurResearch. That name sat at the top of our org chart, with three child projects under it: OpenAlex, Unpaywall, and Unsub. Starting today, things are simp...

We recently announced that we’d completely rewritten Unpaywall to make it faster, more accurate, and (most importantly) easier to fix and improve. We wanted to move Unpaywall from product to process, ...

We recently announced that we’d completely rewritten Unpaywall to make it faster, more accurate, and (most importantly) easier to fix and improve. We wanted to move Unpaywall from product to process, ...

« For years, we’ve been working under the name OurResearch. That name sat at the top of our org chart, with three child projects under it: OpenAlex, Unpaywall, and Unsub. Starting today, things are…

The Witney Lab at King's College London. Specialising in the development of advanced cancer imaging tools.

TLDR: Over the next five months we’re migrating OpenAlex to a new, better codebase; our schema won’t change, but some data (5%) will, and we’ll add over 50 million new works. Why the change OpenAlex w...

OurResearch is proud to announce a grant of $688,800 from The Navigation Fund to develop and launch an open, sustainable, web-based research intelligence (RI) module for the OpenAlex website. Our goal...

For years, we’ve been working under the name **OurResearch**. That name sat at the top of our org chart, with three child projects under it: **OpenAlex** , **Unpaywall** , and **Unsub**. Starting today, things are simpler: that org chart now has just one parent—**OpenAlex** —with Unpaywall and Unsub beneath it. Why the change? Three reasons: ### **1. Fewer brands is clearer** We’re a tiny team, and having so many brands has always been confusing. People wondered: are we OurResearch (or Our Research), or OpenAlex, or Unpaywall, or something else? From now on, the answer is simple: **we’re OpenAlex**. ### **2. OpenAlex is what we do** More and more, OpenAlex is the center of our work. It’s our biggest project and the one that takes most of our time. And it’s also the data engine behind our other projects: Unpaywall and Unsub both run on OpenAlex data. In fact, with the launch of our fully rewritten OpenAlex codebase (codenamed Walden) this week, Unpaywall runs as a subroutine of the OpenAlex codebase. So in a real sense, Unpaywall and Unsub are just friendly wrappers around OpenAlex. Improving OpenAlex improves them automatically. And the name OpenAlex, with its homage to the ancient Library of Alexandria, captures our long-term vision to _gather_ , _organize_ , and _make open_ all scholarly information. ### **3. New name, new start** Legally, nothing dramatic is happening—our official name has always been **Impactstory, Inc.** , and “OurResearch” was just a DBA. But this moment is more than just a bookkeeping change. This is a new chapter for us. The past year has been tough: not much visible progress, a lot of repaying technical debt, and a long slog to rewrite our entire codebase. But that rewrite launches (in beta) this week. And with a fresh codebase comes a fresh start: we get to focus harder, move faster, and pour our energy into making OpenAlex as comprehensive, accurate, and open as possible. So yes, the name change simplifies things. But more importantly, it marks a new focus and a renewed commitment to our vision: building a universal library of scholarship. And while we’ll continue to support Unpaywall and Unsub for now, we want to be transparent: OpenAlex is the future. As its functionality grows over the next year or two, Unpaywall and Unsub users will be able to meet their use-cases directly via OpenAlex. The rising tide of OpenAlex lifts all boats. * * * ## **This week is about OpenAlex** This post is the first of three announcements: * **Monday** : our name change to OpenAlex (that’s today). * **Tuesday** : our new logo. * **Wednesday** : the beta launch our fully rewritten OpenAlex codebase. When we say we’re focusing on OpenAlex, it’s not just words—we’re shipping, this week. And there’s more coming in Q4: * A new API endpoint to directly download PDFs and parsed PDFs. * A self-serve curation portal (think Wikipedia editing, but for scholarly metadata), where your changes go live in a day or two. * A new vector search API. * Improved funder coverage, thanks to our new Wellcome Trust grant. * * * After a year of rebuilding, we’ve finally got the tools and the focus we need start delivering more substantively on our vision: a universal, open library of scholarly information. We’re energized. We’re ready. **We’re OpenAlex.** ### Share this: * Click to print (Opens in new window) Print * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email * Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn * More * * Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest * Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr * Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) Pocket * Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit *