Monthly Archives: January 2013

Open Citations developments

Posted on January 4, 2013 by David Shotton

Following the decision to merge the planned development of the Open Citations Corpus with the Related Work Project, described in the previous blog post, we proposed to develop one underlying data store, one data model and one RDF representation. Infrastructure … Continue reading →

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Open Citations and Related Work projects merge

Posted on January 4, 2013 by David Shotton

What is Related Work? Related Work is a user-friendly Web application developed to provide a means of browsing citation links, as the basis for a planned recommendation service for the best articles to read.  The references underpinning Related Work are … Continue reading →

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Why openness benefits research

Posted on January 4, 2013 by David Shotton

David writes: Dr Heinrich Hartman is a new colleague of mine, who, having been working in the Mathematical Institute of Oxford University, has just returned to Germany to start a new job in a leading semantic web research group, that … Continue reading →

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Open letter to publishers

Posted on January 3, 2013 by David Shotton

[The text of this post was updated on 27-09-2013 and 04-04-2017 to reflect a new CrossRef metadata best practice document and a change in their URI.] Today I wrote an open letter to all scholarly journal publishers, available online here, … Continue reading →

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Taylor & Francis to open article reference lists

Posted on January 3, 2013 by David Shotton

I am very pleased to announce that last year Ian Bannerman, Managing Director for Journals at Taylor & Francis, confirmed this publisher’s willingness to pilot the opening of the reference lists from articles in 29 of their subscription access journals, … Continue reading →

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