Open citations to open science | International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics

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Summary:

"Two years ago, an advocacy group called the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) began the ambitious agenda of making citations open to the world. They worked arduously with a subset of receptive publishers—subscription-based and open-access, commercial and non for profit—to change the status of references contained in Crossref from closed to open. By the official launch of the initiative in April 2017, they were able to report impressive progress: whereas freely available references were available for only 1% of indexed publications before I4OC, that number stood at 40%. The initiative continued to gather steam, creating partnerships with major publishers, funders, and professional societies, and the percentage of open references continued to grow, representing more than half of all cited references in Crossref by January 2018. The International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics showed its support by publishing an open letter and urging members of field to demonstrate their support by signing it. Over the course of the last four months, the open letter was signed by 324 individuals from 46 countries. The most highly represented countries include the USA, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, the UK, and China. The geographic distribution of our signatories is, in many ways, what one would expect given the demographics of our community. However, this distribution also signals two important pieces of evidence for the open citation movement...."

Link:

http://issi-society.org/blog/posts/2018/april/open-citations-to-open-science/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.citations oa.open_science oa.i4oc oa.metadata oa.data oa.crossref oa.societies oa.signatures oa.policies

Date tagged:

05/02/2018, 16:38

Date published:

05/02/2018, 12:38