Collective provision of Open Research Information Resources in the cloud - ORION DBs

[Bianca Kramer]

(no, not advertising duct cleaning or something like it  :) 

Dear all, 

If you have use cases for which you would like to use the full data snapshot, but  downloading and mounting the full database, is a too daunting prospect, you might be interesting in an initiative we launched yesterday: 

ORION is an effort to coordinate amongst those making ORI resources available in the cloud, with an initial focus on Google BigQuery, (where they can be queried using SQL).

The MultiObs, Sesame Open Science, SUB Göttingen and CWTS groups have come together to work on coordination with the goal of supporting and growing use. We are providing copies of core data resources that anyone can use, including OpenAlex, OpenAIRE, DataCite, Crossref, ROR and SciELO.

This means that if you have, for example, very large API queries, queries that require the full list of authors/affiliations (not just the first 100), or if you want to combine OpenAlex with other open datasets, there is now a low-barrier way of running these against the full dataset(s). 

Blog post: https://doi.org/10.54900/2pnyq-nhx95
ORION website: https://orion-dbs.community/

Check out the blog post and website and get in contact if this is something you are interested in using, supporting or getting involved with!

kind regards,

Bianca Kramer

also on behalf of
Cameron Neylon, 
Najko Jahn, 

Rodrigo Costas,

Alysson Fernandes Mazoni, 
Nees Jan van Eck