Supporter tools
Institutional supporters — Member, Member+, and Partner plans — get access to three tools. This page covers activating each one. For the other ways supporters shape OpenAlex (advisory board nominations, quarterly roundtables), see Getting involved.
How do I activate the Admin Dashboard?
The Admin Dashboard shows OpenAlex usage data for your institution: how many of your users are on OpenAlex, and the API calls made by your research community.
- Identify the users at your institution who should see this data (typically economic buyers or e-resource librarians).
- Have each of them create an account at openalex.org (“Sign up”, top right).
- Send their names and email addresses to kyle@openalex.org, and we’ll enable dashboard access on their accounts.
How do I activate the Affiliation Editor?
The Affiliation Editor lets you curate the affiliation strings OpenAlex matches to your institution — removing erroneous matches and adding missed ones — with your changes live in OpenAlex within about two days. (For what it does and how it fits into fixing affiliation errors generally, see Affiliations.)
To activate it, contact kyle@openalex.org. We provide group training and video resources first, then enable the tool on specific accounts at your institution. We periodically monitor curation accuracy to keep quality high.
How do I activate Unsub?
Unsub gives you data-driven forecasts of the true cost and value of your journal packages to guide subscription decisions — it’s used by hundreds of libraries worldwide.
Send the names and email addresses of up to 3 users at your institution (typically collections librarians) to kyle@openalex.org, and we’ll create their logins. We provide online documentation and shared training videos, but not direct Unsub support; if you want consulting help with analyses and implementation, we recommend Eric Schares (scharesdatascience@gmail.com), an experienced Unsub super-user.