- Open Knowledge Maps
- Your guide to scientific knowledge
Open Knowledge Maps is a charitable non-profit. All of our services are free and open. There are no license fees and no lock-in effects. To provide a sustainable platform for open discovery, we propose to fund Open Knowledge Maps in a collective effort: organisations become supporting members and provide a yearly contribution. In return, our supporting members are invited to co-create the platform with us. Find more details below or download our flyer, which contains a summary of the information displayed on this page.
Benefits for research organisations and libraries:
We joined Open Knowledge Maps as a Supporting Member because it is an innovative tool for literature search and we are eager to support the further development of Open Knowledge Maps.
Dr. David Johann, Head of Group Knowledge Management, ETH Library, ETH Zurich
Open Knowledge Maps is a considerable reinforcement in the areas of open science & open access, which are central to our research services.
Dr. Andrea Hacker, Open Access and Bern Open Publishing (BOP), University Library Bern
Open Knowledge Maps is one of these initiatives we consider to be a visionary innovator in the field of discovery in open spaces.
Prof. Dr. Klaus Tochtermann, Director, ZBW
Using our Custom Services, organisations are able to embed Open Knowledge Maps services in their own discovery systems and provide AI-based, visual entry points to their holdings.
You can set individual parameters, including the ability to restrict knowledge maps to your own data sources. The Custom Services are available as cloud components, so there is no need to install new software on your servers.
The Custom Services can be used in a variety of ways. Below you find a selection of live case studies illustrating what an integration could look like. For more information, please see our presentation.
To use Custom Services in your organisation, please contact chairman Dr. Peter Kraker at: pkraker@openknowledgemaps.org
Are you looking for an effortless way of integrating our Custom Services? Look no further. The ETH uses our knowledge maps to complement their library catalogue search. The integration enables users to send their query to Open Knowledge Maps with a single click.
Would you like to provide visual overviews for research collections or news pages? Take a look at UNIL's website, where they present the university’s core research topics and related research outputs as a custom knowledge map.
Are you interested in integrating our Custom Services more tightly into your own offerings? Then this one’s for you. GoTriple, a discovery platform for the SSH, opted for a seamless integration of our visualisation tools. This allows users to remain in your system and effortlessly switch between different modes of discovery.
All of our services are free and openly licensed.
Your membership supports an open and transparent discovery infrastructure that is developed in close collaboration with the community. Our offering includes:
Open Knowledge Maps is an AI-based search engine that enables researchers, students, and practitioners to quickly identify relevant resources. Instead of long, unstructured lists of search results, we create rich visual overviews of research topics, so-called knowledge maps.
Largest visual search engine for research
We increase the visibility of content from a variety of sources, including research institutions, funders, and publishers. With our services, individuals and organisations can create knowledge maps based on 300+ million research outputs from all disciplines. You can choose between more than 20 output types, including journal articles, books, and research data.
Part of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)
We are involved in many EOSC-related activities. As coordinator of the GO FAIR Implementation Network “Discovery”, we facilitate the improvement of research data discovery. As a partner in the Horizon 2020 project TRIPLE, we co-develop a European discovery platform for the social sciences and humanities.
Download our flyer, which contains a summary of the information displayed on this page.
We currently offer supporting memberships in three categories. For more information on the categories, please see the details below. Note: Small organisations mean small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as defined in the relevant national or regional classifications. An exception are infrastructure organisations and networked organisations, which are always considered to be large organisations.
As a supporting member, you are directly involved in the decision-making process around Open Knowledge Maps by way of the Board of Supporters. The Board of Supporters provides input on the technical roadmap and has one third of the vote on what features are implemented on Open Knowledge Maps. This is done in a lightweight process via two short web forms. It is up to the members to which extent they choose to engage with this process.
Discounts for consortia of 10 or more organisations are available! For more information please contact Open Knowledge Maps founder and chairman Dr. Peter Kraker at: pkraker@openknowledgemaps.org.
With your contribution, you facilitate the maintenance of Open Knowledge Maps. This makes sure that the platform will be available now and in the future.
Current members in this category:
With your contribution, you support the maintenance, but also the development of substantial new features on Open Knowledge Maps. This makes sure that we can improve Open Knowledge Maps going forward.
Current members in this category:
With your contribution, you support us in achieving our vision of turning discovery into a collaborative process. This makes sure that we can work towards a large-scale collaborative discovery system (see our video for more details).
Current members in this category:
We joined Open Knowledge Maps as a Supporting Member because it is an innovative tool for literature search and we are eager to support the further development of Open Knowledge Maps.
Dr. David Johann, Head of Group Knowledge Management, ETH Library, ETH Zurich
Open Knowledge Maps is a considerable reinforcement in the areas of open science & open access, which are central to our research services.
Dr. Andrea Hacker, Open Access and Bern Open Publishing (BOP), University Library Bern
Open Knowledge Maps is one of these initiatives we consider to be a visionary innovator in the field of discovery in open spaces.
Prof. Dr. Klaus Tochtermann, Director, ZBW
We are delighted to announce our new partnership with Open Knowledge Maps. We share the common goal of enhancing the visibility of research results beyond disciplinary boundaries and thus contributing to knowledge generation.
Mag. Beate Guba, MSc., Library Director, TU Wien Bibliothek
As a longstanding innovator in digital librarianship, we are proud to support one of the most forward-thinking open infrastructures in scholarly communication.
Mag. Dr. Ulrike Krießmann, Head of Library and Archive, Graz University of Technology
We deem it absolutely critical to support innovative and visionary infrastructures such as arXiv, the DOAJ, OLH and now Open Knowledge Maps. We are delighted to be able to contribute to Open Knowledge Maps' sustainability, and, thusly, to its long-term independence.
HR Mag. Brigitte Kromp, Head of Central Library for Physics and Chemistry, Vienna University Library
As a truly open discovery tool, Open Knowledge Maps revolutionize the way scientific knowledge can be revealed.
Dr. Xenia van Edig, Senior Business Development, Copernicus Publications
On the one side the Open Science movement has increased the accessibility of academic knowledge, but on the other hand there is a discoverability crisis that in a lot of cases negatively affects Scholarly Communication. Open Knowledge Maps intends to close this gap and that's why it deserves to be supported with our best efforts.
Mag. MSc. Andreas Ferus, Interim Library Director, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Die Angewandte shares and supports the core principles of Open Knowledge Maps in particular with regards to open science, user-centred design, and open source.
Dr. Florian Bettel, Senior Scientist at the Department of Cultural Studies, die Angewandte
As a picture is worth a thousand words, the Open Knowledge Maps are probably the best way to discover new scientific knowledge. There is no way we could have missed such a great opportunity!
Laurent Gobat, Head of academic information and libraries, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
The University of Lausanne considers knowledge to be a public good. It intends to make it available to society in order to address the major issues of our time in all their complexity. Open Knowledge Maps is the perfect opportunity to enhance the way we communicate and broadcast the knowledge generated at our institution with the world.
Dr. Micaela Crespo, Open Access Coordinator UNIL, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
We're happy to join Open Knowledge Maps to give researchers and the interested public more possibilities to explore research results in a new, innovative way. Looking forward to sharing these possibilities in our new research platform based on DSpace soon.
Ruedi Lindegger, Group leader of Research Services, Vice President's Board Research & Faculty, University of St. Gallen
We believe in making knowledge accessible to the public and in supporting research and education to the very best of our abilities. Our aim is to offer a multitude of possibilities to explore and experience our vast collections to cater to different user needs and preferences. We are therefore very much looking forward to supporting and working with Open Knowledge Maps to help develop and build new and innovative ways to discover open online publications and resources.
Frank Scholze, Director General, German National Library
At the Austrian Library Network, we share Open Knowledge Maps’ commitment to support and empower researchers and library users in finding, exploring, discovering and structuring the most relevant sources for their work. As a cataloguing and discovery systems provider and central library network agency, we enable institutions and librarians in providing services required to achieve this shared goal. In this capacity, it is an honour to support Open Knowledge Maps in their mission to provide innovative and exciting ways of navigating research and sharing knowledge.
Mag. Wolfgang Hamedinger, Managing Director, Austrian Library Network and Service Ltd (OBVSG)
KU Leuven Libraries is devoted to stimulating the development of non-profit and community-led open science initiatives. We support a growing number of sustainable and equitable open scholarship infrastructures through the KU Leuven Fund for Fair Open Access. Our support of Open Knowledge Maps fits perfectly with this mission as we believe in the need for a non-profit approach to explore and discover scientific knowledge.
Laura Mesotten, Process Manager Research and Open Scholarship, KU Leuven Libraries
Paywalls may prove challenging when searching for scholarly publications. Yet another challenge is selecting a publication out of the thousands that may appear in the search results, especially for those outside of academia. Therefore, the KB, National Library of the Netherlands, is happy to officially support Open Knowledge Maps and is eager to explore how to better serve its community together with OKMaps.
Astrid van Wesenbeeck, Open Science Advisor, KB
By supporting OKMaps the FWF is expanding its involvement in strengthening publication and research information systems. The FWF is committed to supporting open infrastructures as well as a broad range of open systems, which falls in line with the values of OKMaps.
Falk Reckling, Head of the FWF Department Strategy – Policy, Evaluation, Analysis
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is committed to information sharing and transparency. We believe that published research resulting from our funding should be promptly and broadly disseminated.
Ashley Farley, Program Officer, Knowledge & Research Services team, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The societies’ primary purpose is to conduct biological and natural research, and to make this accessible to everyone through publication, education, and its museums. Today, its purpose is more important than ever, due to a global increase in both interest and curiosity which leaves many biological questions to be answered, such as those regarding climate change and the conservation of our planet. Therefore we are happy to support Open Knowledge Maps in order to jointly further strengthen the system of ‘Open Science’ in the future.
Prof. Dr. Klement Tockner, Director General, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
We strive to give our researchers, and the teams who work alongside them, truly useful data and information about their open research outputs; we want them to be able to see this in a way which maximises its visual impact and could help them to identify future collaborative partners. Open Knowledge Maps provides the perfect platform for this, and their ethos and approach aligns with our own commitment to open research and bringing research to wider communities.
Bill Ayres, Strategic Lead for Research Data Management & Scott Taylor, Head of the Office for Open Research, The University of Manchester Library
As a promoter of all the university's strategic goals in research, teaching, continuous learning and open scientific communication, we share a commitment with Open Knowledge Maps to open science and transfer knowledge beyond academia.
Ari Muhonen, Library Director, University of Eastern Finland (UEF)
IT:U and Open Knowledge Maps are following a mutual mission: to provide, develop and widen scientific knowledge, which is the key to every solution. Knowledge makes the difference, and together we can shape the future!
Gabriele Költringer, EMBA, Chief Operation Officer, IT:U Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria
Finding and evaluating research literature is central to scientific work. Our role as a university library is to provide tools and training for everyone at HU Berlin to achieve this. By supporting Open Knowledge Maps, we introduce an innovative tool into our portfolio, benefiting both students and researchers. We look forward to exploring new ways of discovering research!
Dr. Christina Riesenweber, Open Research Coordinator, University Library, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin