Drawing on the Research Nexus with Policy documents: Overton’s use of Crossref API

Abstract

Overton is a big database of government policy documents, also including sources like intergovernmental organizations, think tanks, and big NGOs and in general anyone who’s trying to influence a government policy maker. What we’re interested in is basically, taking all the good parts of the scholarly record and applying some of that to the policy world. By this we mean finding all the documents, finding what’s out there, collecting metadata for them consistently, fitting to our schema, extracting references from all the policy documents we find, adding links between them, and then we also do citation analysis.

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BibTeX citation:

@online{montilla2024,
  author = {Montilla, Luis},
  title = {Drawing on the {Research} {Nexus} with {Policy} Documents:
    {Overton’s} Use of {Crossref} {API}},
  date = {2024-06-15},
  url = {https://www.luismmontilla.com/posts/crossref/202406/},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.64000/amkdy-vhn87},
  langid = {en},
  abstract = {Overton is a big database of government policy documents,
    also including sources like intergovernmental organizations, think
    tanks, and big NGOs and in general anyone who’s trying to influence
    a government policy maker. What we’re interested in is basically,
    taking all the good parts of the scholarly record and applying some
    of that to the policy world. By this we mean finding all the
    documents, finding what’s out there, collecting metadata for them
    consistently, fitting to our schema, extracting references from all
    the policy documents we find, adding links between them, and then we
    also do citation analysis.}
}

For attribution, please cite this work as:

Montilla, Luis. 2024. “Drawing on the Research Nexus with Policy Documents: Overton’s Use of Crossref API.” Crossref Blog, June 15. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.64000/amkdy-vhn87.