Academic publisher Emerald Publishing has signed up to the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), a collaboration between scholarly publishers, researchers and other interested parties to promote the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data. Before I4OC, only about 1% of the publications with reference data deposited in Crossref made their references freely available. That figure is now expected to leap to 40%.
One benefit of a fully open citation dataset is the establishment of a global public web of linked scholarly citation data to enhance the discoverability of published content. Another is 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. The open availability of citation data will help funders better evaluate the research they fund.
The Internet Archive, Mozilla, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, and 29 other projects and organisations - including publishers SAGE Publishing, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis Group, and Wiley - have formally put their names behind I4OC as stakeholders in support of openly accessible citations.
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