Growing in complexity: why OpenCitations needed a new Governance Model

Since 2019, OpenCitations has undergone a period of significant growth and consolidation, becoming a far more complex and interconnected infrastructure. What began as a focused service has grown into a key component of the global Open Science ecosystem, embedded in a dense network of relationships and long-term commitments involving its community, its members, and the University of Bologna. As this complexity increased, it became clear that the original governance framework could no longer f...