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More than 60 organizations and scholarly publishers yesterday (April 6) announced an effort to unlock citation data and make it more broadly available to the public. The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) consortium is supported by 29 publishers and several organizations and companies, including the Wikimedia Foundation, Mozilla, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the U.K.’s Wellcome Trust. I4OC’s goal is to make citation data, which is collected by publishers, but not always made publicly available, accessible via Crossref. “Over the coming months, the organizations involved in I4OC will be working with different stakeholders to raise awareness of the availability of open citation data and evaluate how it can be reused, analyzed, and built upon,” the Wikimedia Foundation ...
