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Solving COVID and Climate: ‘Innovation Without Borders’
Press Release - Tuesday, 14th September 2021 The Lens Collective Action Project levels the playing field with universal open access... Read More

The Lens awarded $2M USD to strengthen institutional innovation capabilities
Press Release - Tuesday, 2nd March 2021 Cambia today announced a $2M USD grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates... Read More

The Lens: Open for Outcomes
SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) recently featured The Lens as part of a series of impact stories... Read More

Using Lens.org to kick start your literature review – a search strategy for finding review papers, systematic reviews and meta-analysis
In his latest blog post, Aaron Tay provides an exploration of the tools, techniques and strategies for conducting your literature... Read More

The rise of the “open” discovery indexes? Lens.org, Semantic Scholar and Scinapse
In his latest blog post, Aaron Tay provides an insightful and thoughtful piece on the emergence of open scholarly discovery... Read More

Release 6.5
New EPO sequence data, PatSeq bulk download options, New users section and more! New EPO sequence data, PatSeq bulk download... Read More

Apple After Jony Ive: Aligning Hardware and Software Design in an Innovation Network
Kenedict Innovation Analytics provides new ways to analyse, visualise and measure innovation-related data and facilitates fact-based decision-making with regard to... Read More

Release 6.4
Upgraded free and open scholarly API, becoming a Lens partner, new aggregation and citation metrics and more! Upgraded free and... Read More

How to Handle Data Exported from The Lens in CiteSpace
CiteSpace is a widely used and freely available tool for visually exploring and analyzing trends and patterns in scientific literature.... Read More

Release 6.3
New scholarly analysis charts and features, toggle for author identifiers, Scholarly API improvements and more! New scholarly analysis charts and... Read More

Highlighting some new visualization functions in Lens 6.2.0 — Three use cases for Lens.org
I have become quite a fan of the free Lens.org since last year , writing pieces like - 7 reasons... Read More

Coverage of 24 Russian Journals in Scopus, CrossRef, and the Lens
Every time I am reading a press realease from the Lens, a search engine for the patents and scholarly publicatons,... Read More

Release 6.2.0
New API & Data facility, updated Terms of Use, Scholarly APIv1.0, improved open access and more Introducing the new API... Read More

Release 6.1.0
New features to manage your scholarly analysis saved dashboards, customise your reports, download patent or scholarly citations in various formats,... Read More

Release 6.0.0
We are excited to announce the release of Lens 6.0.0, with a new homepage, skin design and improved search functionality.... Read More

Untangling the State of the Art in Artificial Intelligence by Applying Text Mining and Network Analysis
Artificial intelligence is being applied in a wide variety of areas and has generated a lot of attention over the... Read More

Release 5.14.0
New structured search pages, query text editor and improved loading times. Improvements/Changes: Added new search pages for scholarly and patent... Read More

Release 5.13.0
Improvements/Changes: Redesigned the sidebar tabs to provide a consistent user experience with easier access to saved queries and collections, and... Read More

Release 5.12.0
DOI-based OpenURL linking for scholarly works, links to other scholarly data sources, search in references of scholarly works and more!... Read More

Release 5.11.0
Unpaywall integration with open access status, open access license and linkouts to full text versions of scholarly works. Stage 1... Read More

Release 5.10.0
Improved patent search performance, saved query alerts, increased user privacy, and various fixes. Improvements/Changes: - Upgraded patent search index servers... Read More

Release 5.9.0
Saved Query alerts, Collection limit increased and joined Query Details improvements Major updates: - Added Saved Query Alerts - receive... Read More

Release 5.8.0
Analysis preview sidebar added, scholarly exports and more! New functionality: - Analysis preview sidebar in the results list. This feature... Read More

Release 5.6.0
In an exciting collaboration with the extraordinary AI and Machine Learning team at Microsoft Academic, the Lens has augmented its... Read More

Release 5.5.0
The year has begun with a productive start with an array of new features and improvements added to the Lens... Read More