After months of work behind the scenes, we’re thrilled to unveil the new OpenCitations website!
Whether you’re a researcher, service provider, librarian, or open knowledge advocate, we want the new site to help you engage more easily and meaningfully with our work. This new website is part of a wider rebranding initiative that began earlier this year. In February, we launched our new OpenCitations logo, reflecting our mission as a reliable and community-focused infrastructure for open scholarly metadata.
This visual update now lives across the entire website, giving OpenCitations a refreshed identity while staying true to our core values.
From the moment you arrive, you’ll notice a cleaner, more intuitive design. We’ve restructured the layout to improve usability and provide faster access to our core services, making it possible to perform multiple actions (search our data collections, discover our data dumps and perform API calls) through the boxes in the homepage
Whether you’re exploring our databases or diving into documentation, everything is now easier to find and more clearly explained.
A showcase of OpenCitations’ network and community
OpenCitations has always been a community-driven infrastructure. With this redesign, we’ve placed our community, collaborators, and shared values front and center.
- The About section offers a deeper look at what defines us, including our core values, our origins, our mission, and the unique strategic positioning of OpenCitations within the scholarly communication ecosystem, as well as a page presenting the team;
- In the Support us section, you’ll find a clear explanation of the benefits and requirements of our membership program, along with a detailed FAQ for prospective supporters.
- In the new Community section, you can learn about our partners, funded projects, and international collaborations.
A new feature: subscribe to OpenCitations’ Newsletter!
To mark the relaunch, we’re also introducing a new way to stay connected: the OpenCitations Newsletter!
We’ll use it to share updates about our services, publications, datasets, events, and stories from our community. You can subscribe now via the link below:
→ Sign up for the OpenCitations Newsletter
This new website is the result of a collaborative effort between the OpenCitations team and our International Advisory Board, whose contributions we gratefully acknowledge. Their insight helped us build a platform that truly reflects the needs of our users and the broader research community.
In this spirit, we would like to hear from our users, and anyone interested in OpenCitations’ work. That’s why we’ve added a dedicated Feedback section, where you can share your thoughts, questions, or suggestions. Your input helps us improve, grow, and continue building infrastructure that truly supports open scholarship.
This new site is a foundation for future developments, new technical advancements, and deeper collaboration. We hope the redesign makes it easier for you to access our tools, understand our mission, and get involved.
→ Visit the new website: https://opencitations.net


