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Upcoming Events
June 2026 OpenCon Librarian Community Call
OpenAlex: open infrastructure for a changing scholarly landscape
Libraries are rethinking their relationships with commercial vendors — not just their big deals, but the discovery platforms, citation databases, and research analytics tools that shape how their institutions understand scholarship. OpenAlex offers a fully open alternative: a free, comprehensive index of almost 500 million scholarly works, authors, institutions, and citations, with no access fees, no usage restrictions, and a complete data dump available to anyone.
Join us at the next OpenCon Librarian Community Call on Tuesday, June 9 at 12 p.m. ET / 9 a.m. PT for a session with Kyle Demes, COO of OpenAlex, on how libraries and their research communities are putting OpenAlex to work. We'll discuss: displacing expensive proprietary systems like Web of Science and Scopus, powering data-driven collections decisions through tools like Unsub, and shifting the value proposition of commercial providers from access to data to value-add services on top of free data. Expect concrete examples from libraries already doing this work, a look at where OpenAlex is headed, and plenty of time for Q&A about how your institution might fit in.
OpenCon Librarian Community Calls are open to those working in libraries and are not recorded. You can register for the June call here.
You can register for the June call here.
Agenda and Notes
You can find all the proposed agendas and notes from the Librarian community calls in one place, right here.
Recordings
Community Calls are not recorded to support a safer environment for open and honest discussion. However, notes are taken.
What to expect
Community calls are always friendly, and we love new faces. The more you participate, the more you'll get out of it!