What a year 2024 was for Global Campus: several conferences and fairs, new customers and partnerships and a lot of cool new features and updates.
January started with the nomination of Global Campus as a “Dotcom to watch” in APE Berlin. Still in January, the publication of the first open edition of CWTS Leiden Ranking using OpenAlex data, was an important step towards open science. But most importantly for us, it showed (together with the movement of Sorbonne to OpenAlex) that the OpenAlex data is a trustworthy source to use. During the first half of 2024, we focused a lot on GDPR and the AI act, which we also published about in several blog posts, written by our legal intern Maria. In April, we showcased an improved version of Global Campus at EARMA Conference and explained how useful the matchmaking of Horizon Europe calls could be.
This year, we enthusiastically welcomed several new clients: KU Leuven, KWF, the Royal Military Academy and the Dutch Kidney Association, Dutch Brain Foundation and Dutch Heart Foundation. We are looking forward to welcome new clients in 2025, including a larger society publisher (more on this in the first quarter of 2025), the Children Cancer Free Foundation (KiKa) and Institute Pasteur.
Another important step for Global Campus this year was the partnership with Kriyadocs, a leading provider of workflow tools for publishers, through which we aim to enhance peer review workflows by integrating Global Campus's advanced tools for finding reviewers and academic experts into Kriyadocs’ comprehensive peer review platform. In October, we also became a partner in the BioOne Connect programme.
This year, we also attended SSP in Boston, ALPSP Annual Conference in Manchester and, for the second time, the Frankfurt Bookfair. In short, attending these conferences/fairs was very productive for us, and also gave us a very long list of things we need to get working on to enable more integrations, onboard more customers and to further develop new features in Global Campus.
At the end of November, we deployed relevant improvements to Global Campus, by adding topic information, with a Topics list, on an author level as well was in the network graphs, to help users navigate the results in a more interpretable fashion.
In 2024, the visits to Global Campus rose by 86.5%, which, amongst all the other achievements, made it a year to remember for Global Campus. But stay tuned for 2025, because there is much more to come in terms of new customers, integrations with submission platforms and other vendors. We are excited for what’s still to come and looking forward for 2025!
