NEXT Event
The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication
From 10-14 November 2025
Jason Priem
OurResearch
Jason Priem 
is the CEO of OurResearch, a nonprofit making software for open science. Jason helped found the field of altmetrics, studying indicators of research impact beyond citation. He later co-founded the open science nonprofit OurResearch. OurResearch runs the popular Unpaywall open access service, as well as OpenAlex, a project to build a universal scholarly library. As an open science advocate, Jason has authored dozens of papers and delivered invited presentations around the world, including at the White House, US National Academy of Sciences, US National Institutes of Health, United Nations, and the European Commission.
All Sessions by Jason Priem
Open infrastructure
November 11, 2025
OpenAlex: Building a Modern Library of Alexandria for Research
OpenAlex is our attempt at building a modern Library of Alexandria for research—a single, open map of the scholarly world where 250M+ papers, 100M+ authors, 100k+ institutions and more all live in one connected catalog. We don’t create the scrolls ourselves; we gather them from the amazing open infrastructures that already exist—Crossref, DataCite, ORCID, ROR, DOAJ, Pubmed, ArXiv, and thousands of other repositories. Then we connect them into an accurate, expansive, disambiguated catalog that everyone can use to search, analyze, and build upon. We're trying to provide the integrating structures to turn scattered fragments into a real working library. And while the shelves are free and open to everyone forever, we’ve built a sustainable model by offering daily updates to organizations that need them, while keeping the core dataset and quarterly data dumps completely open. The vision is simple but big: to provide universal, comprehensive access to scholarly information for everyone.