Hey all,
I wanted to let you know that we launched an initiative this morning called: Initiative for Open Citations https://i4oc.org/ (I4OC).
Prior to the launch of I4OC, only 1% of scholarly papers made citation data available in the open. Today, that number has jumped to 40%. We're proud to make a growing piece of fundamental data for open knowledge available to everyone, with no copyright restriction whatsoever.
The I4OC has been in the making for the past 6 months, with lots of individual discussions with scholarly publishers, asking them to flip the switch and release this data. Wikimedia Deutschland, Wikimedia UK, the Wiki Edu Foundation, the Internet Archive, Mozilla, PLOS and many other open knowledge and open data organizations are among the official endorsers of the initiative.
You can read more about this initiative on a post https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/04/06/initiative-for-open-citations/ we published this morning on the Wikimedia Blog, on the joint press release https://i4oc.org/press.html, or follow @i4oc_org https://twitter.com/i4oc_org for more updates.
Best, Dario
Thanks. To their credit, some of Wiley's execs have been actually pretty supportive of the initiative from the very beginning. I am proud that to see that citation data as something nobody owns is a bipartisan issue OA and subscription publishers can (mostly) agree with.
On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Astonishing, there's even Wiley. :) Congrats!
Nemo
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All of this is *extremely* cool. Please forward this message to libraries and openaccess wikimedia mailing lists ;-)
Aubrey
On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 10:15 PM, Dario Taraborelli < dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Thanks. To their credit, some of Wiley's execs have been actually pretty supportive of the initiative from the very beginning. I am proud that to see that citation data as something nobody owns is a bipartisan issue OA and subscription publishers can (mostly) agree with.
On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Astonishing, there's even Wiley. :) Congrats!
Nemo
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On 6 April 2017 at 19:11, Dario Taraborelli dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org wrote:
I wanted to let you know that we launched an initiative this morning called: Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC).
Wikipedia article here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initiative_for_Open_Citations
improvements/ additions, and translations, welcome!
Great work.
-Hasive
On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 4:38 AM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 6 April 2017 at 19:11, Dario Taraborelli dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org wrote:
I wanted to let you know that we launched an initiative this morning
called:
Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC).
Wikipedia article here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initiative_for_Open_Citations
improvements/ additions, and translations, welcome!
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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