Scientific publication rates are on track to double every nine years. In order to help uncover scholarly links and scientific progress as revealed in citation data associated with the rapidly expanding numbers of publications, the American Physical Society (APS) has joined several other major publishers that make their publication reference data freely available in the public domain through the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC).
APS has long participated in CrossRef, which allows academic publishers to cross reference digital publications. In joining I4OC, APS citation information is now publicly available. Subscriptions to the APS Physical Review journals or the publications of other participating organisations are not required to access the citations available through I4OC.
According to the Initiative for Open Citations I4OC, key benefits include the establishment of a global public web of linked scholarly citation data to enhance the discoverability of published content, both subscription access and open access. This will particularly benefit individuals who are not members of academic institutions with subscriptions to commercial citation databases; the ability to build new services over the open citation data, for the benefit of publishers, researchers, funding agencies, academic institutions and the general public, as well as enhancing existing services; and the creation of a public citation graph to explore connections between knowledge fields, and to follow the evolution of ideas and scholarly disciplines.
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