Les « Open citations », des savoirs partagés librement sur Internet

From Google Translate: "These quotations are therefore crucial ... but are for the moment in the hands of some private actors. Essentially two, Web of Science, from the Garfield company, owned since 2001 by Clarivate Analytics, and Scopus, created in 2004 by publisher Reed Elsevier.

Hence the launch in April of a crazy project to gather all these references in a new database free of access and use. The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) was born - resurrecting previous abortive attempts - led by Wikimedia and open access publishers PLOS and eLife. She is supported for example by the foundations Bill and Melinda Gates, Alfred P. Sloane, Microsoft Research, Mozilla ...

At the beginning of August, the consortium welcomed, estimating that more than 45% of quotations were now public, compared with 1% at the beginning of the project. The acceleration is explained by the support of publishers who 'open' their data. 'Achieving 100% is ambitious and realistic,' believes Dario Taraborelli, director of research for the Wikimedia Foundation, who supports the famous online encyclopedia Wikipedia. It does not set a deadline because big publishers are still missing the call like Elsevier or the American Chemical Society. Competitors, Wiley, Springer Nature, or SAGE have joined the movement. 'We hope for a snowball effect, Says Dario Taraborelli, who has many projects in mind, notably to enrich the huge Wikidata knowledge base, taken from Wikipedia."