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Initiative for Open Citations
AbbreviationI4OC
Legal statusactive
Purposeunrestricted availability of scholarly citation data
Websitei4oc.org

The Initiative for Open Citations is a project launched in April 2017,[1][2][3][4][5] that describes itself as:[6]

a collaboration between scholarly publishers, researchers, and other interested parties to promote the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data.

It is intended to facilitate improved citation analysis.

Launch

The organisation was founded in response to a paper on citations in Wikidata, Citations needed for the sum of all human knowledge: Wikidata as the missing link between scholarly publishing and linked open data, given by Dario Taraborelli, head of research at the Wikimedia Foundation, at the eighth Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, in September 2016.[5]

The founding partners were:[7]

At the time of launch, 66 organisations, including the Wellcome Trust, the Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation,[5] had endorsed the project. 29 of these organisations were publishers who had agreed to share their citation metadata openly.[2]

Methodology

The citations are stored in Crossref and are made available through the Crossref REST API. They are also available from the OpenCitations Corpus, a database that is harvests citation data from Crossref and other sources.[8] The data is considered by the those involved in the Initiative to be in the public domain, and so a CC0 licence is used.[5]

References

  1. ^ Schiermeier, Quirin (6 April 2017). "Initiative aims to break science's citation paywall". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2017.21800. ISSN 1476-4687.
  2. ^ a b Treanor, Kim (6 April 2017). "New Large-Scale Initiative Aims To Increase Open Access To Scholarly Research". Intellectual Property Watch. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  3. ^ Taraborelli, Dario; Dugan, Jonathan (6 April 2017). "How we know what we know: The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) helps unlock millions of connections between scholarly research". Wikimedia Blog. Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  4. ^ "Global Coalition Pushes for Unrestricted Sharing of Scholarly Citation Data". Creative Commons. 6 April 2017. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  5. ^ a b c d Chawla, Dalmeet Singh (6 April 2017). "Now free: citation data from 14 million papers, and more might come". Science. doi:10.1126/science.aal1012. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  6. ^ "I4OC: Initiative for Open Citations". Initiative for Open Citations. 6 April 2017. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  7. ^ "Press". Initiative for Open Citations. 6 April 2017. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  8. ^ "FAQ". Initiative for Open Citations. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
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