TS Picks: April 7, 2017

Consortium pushes for open citation data; Gates Foundation launches open-access publishing platform; Cell Press lifts the veil on papers under consideration; an online widget circumvents some paywalls

Written byBob Grant

| 2 min read

Listen with Speechify

0:00

2:00

Selections from The Scientist’s reading list:

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 ...

Interested in reading more?

The Scientist ARCHIVES

Become a Member of

Receive full access to more than 35 years of archives, as well as TS Digest, digital editions of The Scientist, feature stories, and much more!

Join for free today

Already a member? Login Here

Meet the Author

Bob Grant
From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree in science journalism from New York University. In his previous life, he pursued a career in science, getting a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Montana State University and a master’s degree in marine biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Bob edited Reading Frames and other sections of the magazine.
View Full Profile