Tag Archives: I4OC

Crossing a significant threshold: more than one billion citations now available in COCI!

Posted on August 4, 2021 by Chiara Di Giambattista

“The competitive benefits of closing access to citation data diminish with each new citation released to the public domain, but the benefits of open data remain. Going forward, citation data is almost completely public domain”. With these words, from the … Continue reading →

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COCI has surpassed 700M citations

Posted on May 13, 2020 by Silvio Peroni

We are excited to share that COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations, was on 12 May 2020 extended with more than 47 million additional citations, and has reached a total number of more than 702 million DOI-to-DOI citation links between more than 58 million bibliographic entities. Continue reading →

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The first issue of Quantitative Science Studies

Posted on February 26, 2020 by David Shotton

The memorable date 20/02/2020 saw the publication by MIT Press of the first issue of Volume One of a new journal, Quantitative Science Studies (QSS), the official open access journal of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI). QSS’s … Continue reading →

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COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations

Posted on April 15, 2019 by Silvio Peroni

COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations Author(s) Ivan Heibi – ivan.heibi2@unibo.it Digital Humanities Advanced Research Centre (DHARC), Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Silvio Peroni – silvio.peroni@unibo.it Digital Humanities Advanced Research … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing open citations with CROCI

Posted on February 7, 2019 by Silvio Peroni

Crowdsourcing open citations with CROCI An analysis of the current status of open citations, and a proposal Author(s) Ivan Heibi – ivan.heibi2@unibo.it Digital Humanities Advanced Research Centre (DHARC), Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy … Continue reading →

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Citations as First-Class Data Entities: Introduction

Posted on February 19, 2018 by David Shotton

Citations are now centre stage As a result of the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), launched on April 6 last year, almost all the major scholarly publishers now open the reference lists they submit to Crossref, resulting in more than … Continue reading →

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OpenCitations and the Initiative for Open Citations: A Clarification

Posted on January 29, 2018 by David Shotton

Some folk are confused, but OpenCitations and the Initiative for Open Citations, despite the similarity of their names, are two distinct organizations. OpenCitations (http://opencitations.net) is an open scholarly infrastructure organization directed by Silvio Peroni and myself, and its primary purpose … Continue reading →

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Oxford University Press opens its references!

Posted on January 16, 2018 by David Shotton

Good news!  Today, on January 16th 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP) announced its participation in the Initiative for Open Citations, and requested Crossref to turn on reference sharing for all OUP deposited references from more than half a million publications. … Continue reading →

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Funders should mandate open citations

Posted on January 15, 2018 by David Shotton

On 9th January 2018, I published a World View article in Nature entitled Funders should mandate open citations [1], in which I argue that access to open references from scholarly publications is so important that, when encouragements from organisations such as the … Continue reading →

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The new Crossref reference distribution policy

Posted on January 9, 2018 by David Shotton

Since 1st January 2018, Crossref has had a new reference distribution policy, described at https://www.crossref.org/reference-distribution/. There are three possible options for setting the reference distribution preference from which a publisher can choose, these being ‘Closed’, ‘Limited’ and ‘Open”. If the … Continue reading →

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