Open Citations Corpus « Infrastructure Services for Open Access

"Infrastructure Services for Open Access C.I.C. (IS4OA) is pleased to announce that from May 1st 2014 it will adopt the Open Citations Corpus (OCC) as one of the academic Open Access services that it supports, providing it with an organisational structure within which it can attain financial sustainability and growth. The act of bibliographic citation – a scholar referencing the published work of others – is central to scholarly communication, permitting the attribution of credit and integrating our independent research endeavours.  Citations knit together the whole world of scholarship into a gigantic citation network, a directed graph with publications as the nodes and citations as the links between them.  Scholarly communication involves the flow of information and ideas through this citation network, and analysis of changes in the network over time can reveal patterns of communication between scholars and the development and demise of academic disciplines. Open Citations Corpus (OCC) joins the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) under the IS4OA umbrella. Further services will join them over time. The aim is to provide a safe home where a set of services critical to Open Access can flourish in a mutually supportive, forward-looking and sustainable business environment. The ambition is that OCC will increase its coverage substantially. Based on promising communications with leading stakeholders in the scholarly communication community, we are confident that OCC can develop into a central piece of infrastructure for open science. As soon as the transition has taken place, work will begin to bring more content into the corpus."