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Elsevier endorses DORA and opens its journal article reference lists

Posted on December 20, 2020 by David Shotton

We congratulate and thank Elsevier, the world’s largest academic publisher, for endorsing the DORA Declaration on Research Assessment (https://sfdora.org/), thereby joining the hundreds of other publishers and scientific organizations which have endorsed DORA over the previous eight years, and also … Continue reading →

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Introducing InTRePIDs – In-Text Reference Pointer Identifiers

Posted on January 30, 2020 by David Shotton

Rationale Readers of this blog will be familiar with Open Citation Identifiers (OCIs), described in an earlier post and formally defined in [1]. OCIs enable bibliographic citations, treated as first class information entities, to be uniquely identified and referenced, and … Continue reading →

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Early adopters of the OpenCitations Data Model

Posted on March 23, 2018 by David Shotton

OpenCitations is very pleased to announce its collaboration with four new scholarly Research and Development projects that are early adopters of the recently updated OpenCitations Data Model, described in this blog post. The four projects are similar, in that they … 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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Open Citations Corpus Import Process

Posted on March 6, 2013 by richarddjones

As part of the Open Citations project, we have been asked to review and improve the process of importing data into the Open Citations Corpus, taking the scripts from the initial project as our starting point. The current import procedure … Continue reading →

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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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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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Open Citations Extension Project

Posted on July 16, 2012 by David Shotton

I am pleased to announce that the JISC have funded an extension to the Open Citations Project to run from 1st August 2012 until 31st January 2013, during which we will review and revise the technology used to create the … Continue reading →

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Oxford University Press to support Open Citations

Posted on June 22, 2012 by David Shotton

I am delighted to announce that Cathy Kennedy, OUP’s Senior Publisher for Journals, has just written to me as follows: “Oxford University Press is delighted to support the Open Citation Corpus initiative in the interest of furthering and disseminating scholarship.  … Continue reading →

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