openscience.works
openscience.works is an open-science service that turns research signals into readable impact stories. It helps researchers, libraries and publishers see how open scholarly works are used, shared and discussed. Instead of an opaque score, it brings usage, citation, repository, library and online-discussion data together into one narrative per work, and every data point can be traced back to its source.
Stories
- ArticleStories cover journal articles and link them to citation context, policy and media coverage, and open access status.
- BookStories cover monographs, chapters and edited volumes, with download timelines, library holdings and educational uptake.
- DataStories cover datasets, with reuse and citations, repository links and FAIR dissemination.
- SoftwareStories cover scientific software, with GitHub activity, dependencies and forks, and research reuse.
How it works
- Aggregate: metadata and signals from 30+ open sources, such as OpenAlex, Crossref, DataCite, OAPEN and Europe PMC.
- Resolve: harmonise identifiers, disambiguate authors, resolve affiliations and remove duplicates.
- Analyse: look beyond raw counts at how a work is used, taught, discussed and cited.
- Narrate: produce story pages, portfolio dashboards and API outputs.
BookStories
BookStories compiles all available resources (open and/or subscribed) into a report about one single book, to be distributed to authors, readers and libraries, either as a pdf or as a web instance. The report is created from data pulled from online resources with minimal intervention by the publisher. It is scalable by design and allows other (university) presses to run their own instance of the service. BookStories was longlisted for the Renew the Book Award 2026.
Examples:
Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive