Funded in 2024 – The University of Cambridge is partnering with 4Science to deliver this project, which will integrate two key systems within the global scholarly ecosystem, the DSpace repository (https://www.dspace.org/) and OpenAlex (https://openalex.org/), a free and open catalogue of the world’s scholarly research system.

Using OpenAlex’s open API (Application Programming Interface), this integration will allow for the quick import of relevant research and scholarly (meta)data into DSpace repositories, helping institutions to improve the quality and completeness of their records of research outputs and streamlining researcher publication and reporting workflows by providing accurate and relevant information in automated ways. This integration will also save time for researchers and librarians, who would be able to dedicate time to more research-oriented tasks.

Reusing the data in OpenAlex would help institutions to improve the quality and completeness of data in institutional repositories and strengthen the wider open access network by increasing the number of versions and access points to content. Moreover, the availability of multiple (open access) copies of the materials can provide a more effective strategy for long-term preservation.