Open AccessOpen Abstracts: Where are we?
Author(s) -
Ludo Waltman
Publication year - 2020
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.5555/6vs5en6
Subject(s) - library science , metadata , open science , join (topology) , computer science , launched , world wide web , engineering , physics , astronomy , mathematics , combinatorics , electrical engineering
The Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) launched this week. The initiative calls on scholarly publishers to make the abstracts of their publications openly available. More specifically, publishers that work with Crossref to register DOIs for their publications are requested to include abstracts in the metadata they deposit in Crossref. These abstracts will then be made openly available by Crossref. 39 publishers have already agreed to join I4OA and to open their abstracts...