Reputation managment: your identity, your story - December 1, 2017

Reputation management: your identity, your story 

Office of Scholarly Communications, California Digital Library

Allegra Swift, UC San Diego

"Having a digital presence beyond your formal academic work can be immensely beneficial. The trick is to take control of that digital presence and ensure that it works to your benefit. Luckily, there is help to be found; publishers, universities, and academic libraries all provide resources to help their academic communities effectively curate a professional, online scholarly identity.

What’s in a Name: Scholarly Identity, Reputation Management

So what do we mean by “scholarly identity” and why should one’s identity be curated? Traditionally, an academic’s reputation, offline or online, was built by publishing in prestigious journals or with important presses, by an affiliation with influential institutions or people, or by presenting at national and international conferences. Your impact was largely measured by the length of your CV and your citation rate. What’s changed? New opportunities for measuring and communicating impact are developing and being incorporated into traditional systems of review. How and with whom your work is communicated has been forever altered. The infrastructure and the expectations are changing."

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eScholarship redesign launch - October 23, 2017

UCI Libraries is proud to announce a newly redesigned eScholarship launched Monday, October 23, 2017. 

The design changes include features to allow departments and research units to add customizations to their webpages, with additional graphics, links to data in DASH  or other repositories, and an update of research publications.  The new look to eScholarship improves search features across eScholarship, by campus or all material posted by UC authors.  eScholarship provides scholarly publishing and repository services that enable departments, research units, publishing programs, and individual scholars associated with the University of California to have direct control over the creation and dissemination of the full range of their scholarship.  eScholarship is a service of the Publishing Group of the California Digital Library.

eScholarship Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eScholarship/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/escholarship

American Chemical Society (ACS) letter to ResaerchGate - October 17, 2017

October 17, 2017 -- American Chemical Society (ACS) has sent a letter to ACS members about actions taken about author submissions to ResearchGate.

"Dear ACS Author:


I am writing to inform you about important aspects of copyright enforcement  actions that ACS is undertaking with regard to the venture­ capital backed content sharing network, ResearchGate. ResearchGate currently amasses, modifies and illegitimately distributes millions of copyrighted journal articles without permission or licence for its commercial gain. 

We do not take this action lightly and recognize the potential useful role ResearchGate has to play within the scientific communication ecosystem. At present, however, its business practices include the widespread distribution of intellectual property of others that it has illicitly amassed, largely in the form of copyrighted journal articles, in order to promote user traffic to its site in a fashion that undermines the integrity of scholarly publishing.

Attempts by ACS and other societies and publishers to agree with ResearchGate on an approach that would facilitate the sharing of published articles in a copyright­compliant manner have failed. While we recognize that ResearchGate has recently moved from public view a significant number of ACS copyrighted articles it has collected on its site, not all its infringing violations have been addressed. ResearchGate needs to take additional steps to cease its unauthorized use of copyrighted content for its commercial activities. "

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Publishers seek removal of millions of papers from ResearchGate - 5 October 2017

"Leading publishers are stepping up their fight against ResearchGate by ordering the academic social network to take down papers that they say infringe copyright.

"The move could see millions of articles removed from the site, as the publishers say up to 40 percent of papers on ResearchGate are copyrighted."

"James Milne, a spokesman for the group of five academic publishers, which includes Elsevier, Wiley and Brill, said that the first batch of take-down notices would be sent “imminently”.

“We’re not doing this in any way against the researchers, we’re doing this against ResearchGate,” he told Times Higher Education.  The site was “clearly hosting and happily uploading material that they know they don’t have the licence or copyrights” to, and was “refusing to work with us to solve that problem”, he added."

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Top Ten UC Irvine Articles Accessed in eScholarship for September 2017

Top Ten UC Irvine Articles Accessed in eScholarship for September 2017

Below is an overview of the number of views and downloads for this month, along with links to your usage numbers from previous months and additional data. We feel that the combination of views and downloads gives a more accurate picture of the interest in and usage of your publications than is reflected in download counts alone, particularly given the enhanced access readers have to your publications prior to download in the eScholarship interface.

UC Irvine Previously Published Works

For this month your total requests = 37181 (views=29779, downloads=7402).

Breakdown By Item

Item Year ---- Number of Requests ---- Total Added to Title Published Views Downloads Requests "My Items" Culture and adolescent development 2002 213 48 261 0 Corporate social responsibility as a source of employee satisfaction 2012 200 23 223 0 Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica 1999 158 58 216 0 Beyond Looking for My Penis: Reflections on Asian Gay Male Video Porn 1999 158 2 160 0 Enterprise Risk Management: Review, Critique, and Research Directions 2015 84 70 154 0 A Practice Theory Approach to Understanding the Interdependency of Nursing Practice and the Environment Implications for Nurse-Led Care Delivery Models 2015 84 68 152 0 Interdisciplinary collaboration: The role of the clinical nurse leader 2015 90 31 121 0 An overview of polymyositis and dermatomyositis 2015 77 42 119 0 Theorizing Practice and Practicing Theory 2011 51 54 105 0 Reconceptualizing Organizational Routines as a Source of Flexibility and Change 2003 45 48 93 0

More information about the UC Open Access Policy is available on the Open Access Policy pages.

Visit the Implementation Plan to learn more about the timeline for systemwide roll-out of the publication management system.

Film of session from Text and Data Mining symposium - Engineering Department at Cambridge University - August 2017

Blog description of symposium held at Cambridge on Text and Data Mining - Cambridge University
 https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=1505

Sometimes the best way to find a solution is to just get the different stakeholders talking to each other – and this what happened at a recent Text and Data Mining symposium held in the Engineering Department at Cambridge. The attendees were primarily postgraduate students and early career researchers, but senior researchers, administrative staff, librarians and publishers were also represented in the audience. This symposium grew out of a discussion held earlier this year at Cambridge to consider the issue of TDM and what a TDM library service might look like at Cambridge.

The day concluded with the group reconvening together for a roundtable (which was filmed) to discuss the broader issue of why there is not more TDM happening in the UK

What was clear was something I have repeatedly observed over the past few years – that the players in this space including librarians, researchers and publishers, have very little idea of how the others work and their needs. I have actually heard people say: ‘If only they understood…’

Dr Danny Kingsley

Head, Office of Scholarly Communication

Cambridge University Library

Center for Open Science Launches Thesis Commons, an Open-source Platform for Theses and Dissertations

Charlottesville, VA

The Center for Open Science (COS) is pleased to announce the release of Thesis Commons, a free, cloud-based, open-source platform for the submission, dissemination, and discovery of graduate and undergraduate theses and dissertations from any discipline. Authors can share their electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) with a quick and easy submission workflow.  Readers can search, discover, and download with a clean and simple interface. Institutions can sign-up for a branded version of the service for their institutional community for hosting ETDs, preprints, or other scholarship.  

Thesis Commons in part of  a rapidly growing community of open scholarly communication services built on an open-source infrastructure called the Open Science Framework (OSF).  As a shared, public good, the OSF dramatically lowers the barrier to entry for communities to introduce and operate services across the research lifecycle such as preprints, ETD repositories, and data or materials archives.  With a planned integration of a peer review service layer, communities will be able to moderate these services directly and operate discipline-specific repositories or journals with a common integrated infrastructure.  

COS aims to facilitate open and accessible scholarly communication services that promote community-driven innovation and customization in the scholarly workflow. “Thousands of researchers at hundreds of institutions are using the OSF to organize, collaborate, and improve discovery of active research projects,” said Matt Spitzer, COS Community Manager. “The OSF also enables open, community-led interfaces for sharing preprints and papers. Institutions are looking for more integrated, open-source services to host their community’s research outputs. By bringing Thesis Commons and institutionally-branded repositories together, we will dramatically improve discovery and reduce preservation costs.”

Thesis Commons has a steering committee of experts and advocates for open scholarship representing institution, library, and researcher stakeholder communities.  Members include Bradly Alicea from the OpenWorm Foundation, Gail Clement from the California Institute of Technology, John Finnell from Los Alamos Laboratory, Amanda French from GWU, Jon Grahe from Pacific Lutheran University, Sridhar Gutam from Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Chris Hartgerink from Tilburg University, Thea Lindquist from University of Colorado, Boulder, Gail McMillan from Virginia Tech, Gustav Nilsonne from Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet, and Fred Smyth from the University of Virginia.

Thesis Commons is also backed by COS’s preservation fund, which ensures that all data stored on its services would be preserved and accessible for 50+ years in the event of COS curtailing or closing its services. Moreover, because all COS-built software is open-source, other groups could maintain and operate the service in COS’s absence.

For more information on Thesis Commons or to discuss implementation at your institution, please reach out to us here or contact Matt Spitzer at matt.spitzer@cos.io.

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About Center for Open Science

The Center for Open Science (COS) is a non-profit technology startup founded in 2013 with a mission to increase openness, integrity, and reproducibility of scientific research. COS pursues this mission by building communities around open science practices, supporting metascience research, and developing and maintaining free, open source software tools. The Open Science Framework (OSF), COS’s flagship product, is a web application that connects and supports the research workflow, enabling scientists to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their research. Researchers use the OSF to collaborate, document, archive, share, and register research projects, materials, and data. Learn more at cos.io and osf.io.

Contacts for the Center for Open Science

Media: Rusty Speidel: rusty@cos.io | 434-284-3403

Starting a Branded Service: Matt Spitzer: matt.spitzer@cos.io

Web: https://thesiscommons.org

Blog Discussion: Planning scholarly communication training in the UK - June 2017

A new Blog on Unlocking Research from the U.K.

"Planning scholarly communication training in the UK”

 https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=1517

A summary:

In June 2017 ,a group of people met in London to discuss the issues around scholarly communication training delivery in the UK. Representatives from RLUK, UKSG, SCONUL, UKCoRR, Vitae, Jisc and some universities had a workshop to discuss how to address the problem. Although the discussion was very library-centric, the need for  training outside the library sector is the emphasis of the blog discussion. This blog is a summary of the discussion from that day.

Top Ten UC Irvine Articles Accessed in eSchoalrship for July 2017

Top Ten UC Irvine Articles Accessed in eScholarship for July 2017

Below is an overview of the number of views and downloads for this month, along with links to your usage numbers from previous months and additional data. We feel that the combination of views and downloads gives a more accurate picture of the interest in and usage of your publications than is reflected in download counts alone, particularly given the enhanced access readers have to your publications prior to download in the eScholarship interface.

UC Irvine Previously Published Works

For this month your total requests = 16429 (views=10788, downloads=5641).

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Top Ten Articles Viewed and Downloaded - July 2017

Item	Year	---- Number of Requests ----		Total	Added to
Title	Published	Views	Downloads	Requests	"My Items"
Going to Pot? The Impact of Dispensary Closures on Crime	2017	202	26	228	0
Beyond Looking for My Penis: Reflections on Asian Gay Male Video Porn	1999	137	1	138	0
Creating Opportunities for Students to Show What They Know: The Role of Scaffolding in Assessment Tasks	2014	91	44	135	0
Corporate social responsibility as a source of employee satisfaction	2012	78	25	103	1
Enterprise Risk Management: Review, Critique, and Research Directions	2015	57	42	99	0
Theorizing Practice and Practicing Theory	2011	43	51	94	0
Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica	1999	46	31	77	0
A Practice Theory Approach to Understanding the Interdependency of Nursing Practice and the Environment Implications for Nurse-Led Care Delivery Models	2015	49	22	71	0
Reconceptualizing Organizational Routines as a Source of Flexibility and Change	2003	41	30	71	0
An overview of polymyositis and dermatomyositis	2015	27	39	66	0

More information about the UC Open Access Policy is available on the Open Access Policy pages.

Visit the Implementation Plan to learn more about the timeline for systemwide roll-out of the publication management system.

What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books? - August 10, 2017

What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?

By Jennifer Howard     Aug 10, 2017

edSurge: Postsecondary learning

"It was a crazy idea: Take the bulk of the world’s books, scan them, and create a monumental digital library for all to access. That’s what Google dreamed of doing when it embarked on its ambitious book-digitizing project in 2002. It got part of the way there, digitizing at least 25 million books from major university libraries.

But the promised library of everything hasn’t come into being. An epic legal battle between authors and publishers and the Internet giant over alleged copyright violations dragged on for years. A settlement that would have created a Book Rights Registry and made it possible to access the Google Books corpus through public-library terminals ultimately died, rejected by a federal judge in 2011. And though the same judge ultimately dismissed the case in 2013, handing Google a victory that allowed it to keep on scanning, the dream of easy and full access to all those works remains just that."

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Top Ten UC Irvine Articles Accessed in eScholarship for June 2017

Top Ten UC Irvine Articles Accessed in eScholarship for June 2017

Below is an overview of the number of views and downloads for this month, along with links to your usage numbers from previous months and additional data. We feel that the combination of views and downloads gives a more accurate picture of the interest in and usage of your publications than is reflected in download counts alone, particularly given the enhanced access readers have to your publications prior to download in the eScholarship interface.

UC Irvine Previously Published Works

For this month your total requests = 15818 (views=10339, downloads=5479).

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Top Ten Articles Viewed and Downloaded - June 2017

Item Year ---- Number of Requests ---- Total Added to Title Published Views Downloads Requests "My Items" Beyond Looking for My Penis: Reflections on Asian Gay Male Video Porn 1999 169 0 169 0 Enterprise Risk Management: Review, Critique, and Research Directions 2015 53 54 107 0 Primary production of the biosphere: integrating terrestrial and oceanic components 1998 52 38 90 0 Reconceptualizing Organizational Routines as a Source of Flexibility and Change 2003 49 30 79 0 Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory: a meta-analysis 2014 36 32 68 0 Corporate social responsibility as a source of employee satisfaction 2012 42 24 66 0 Interdisciplinary collaboration: The role of the clinical nurse leader 2015 45 20 65 0 An overview of polymyositis and dermatomyositis 2015 24 40 64 0 Future CO2 Emissions and Climate Change from Existing Energy Infrastructure 2010 43 21 64 0 iPSC-Derived Human Microglia-like Cells to Study Neurological Diseases 2017 28 32 60 0

More information about the UC Open Access Policy is available on the Open Access Policy pages.

Visit the Implementation Plan to learn more about the timeline for systemwide roll-out of the publication management system.

Open Access and the Graduate Thesis Author - June 6, 2017

Citation: Jill Cirasella & Polly Thistlethwaite, (2017). "Open Access and the Graduate Author: A Dissertation Anxiety Manual," in Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communication: Implementation, eds. K. L. Smith & K. A. Dickson (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield), p. 203-224.

Abstract: The process of completing a dissertation is stressful—deadlines are scary, editing is hard, formatting is tricky, and defending is terrifying. (And, of course, postgraduate employment is often uncertain.) Now that dissertations are deposited and distributed electronically, students must perform yet another anxiety-inducing task: deciding whether they want to make their dissertations immediately open access (OA) or, at universities that require OA, coming to terms with openness. For some students, mostly in the humanities and some of the social sciences, who hope to transform their dissertations into books, OA has become a bogeyman, a supposed saboteur of book contracts and destroyer of careers.

This chapter examines the various access-related anxieties that plague graduate students. It is a kind of diagnostic and statistical manual of dissertation anxieties—a "Dissertation Anxiety Manual," if you will—describing anxieties surrounding book contracts, book sales, plagiarism, juvenilia, the ambiguity of the term online, and changes in scholarly research and production.

URL: http://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_pubs/286/

Top Ten UC Irvine Articles Accessed in eScholarship for May 2017

Top Ten UC Irvine Articles Accessed in eScholarship for May 2017

Below is an overview of the number of views and downloads for this month, along with links to your usage numbers from previous months and additional data. We feel that the combination of views and downloads gives a more accurate picture of the interest in and usage of your publications than is reflected in download counts alone, particularly given the enhanced access readers have to your publications prior to download in the eScholarship interface.

UC Irvine Previously Published Works

For this month your total requests = 19482 (views=12717, downloads=6765).

Breakdown By Item

Top Ten Articles Viewed and Downloaded - May 2017

Item Year ---- Number of Requests ---- Total Added to Title Published Views Downloads Requests "My Items" Beyond Looking for My Penis: Reflections on Asian Gay Male Video Porn 1999 181 1 182 0 The impact of laptop-free zones on student performance and attitudes in large lectures 2012 86 56 142 0 Enterprise Risk Management: Review, Critique, and Research Directions 2015 79 45 124 0 Primary production of the biosphere: integrating terrestrial and oceanic components 1998 67 43 110 0 Emotion and False Memory 2016 64 42 106 0 An overview of polymyositis and dermatomyositis 2015 54 38 92 0 Measurements of Wγ and Zγ production in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC 2013 90 0 90 0 A Practice Theory Approach to Understanding the Interdependency of Nursing Practice and the Environment Implications for Nurse-Led Care Delivery Models 2015 59 25 84 0 Reconceptualizing Organizational Routines as a Source of Flexibility and Change 2003 51 32 83 0 Corporate social responsibility as a source of employee satisfaction 2012 51 31 82 0

More information about the UC Open Access Policy is available on the Open Access Policy pages.

Visit the Implementation Plan to learn more about the timeline for systemwide roll-out of the publication management system.

Top Ten UC Irvine Articles Accessed in eScholarship for April 2017

Top Ten UC Irvine Articles Accessed in eScholarship for April 2017

Below is an overview of the number of views and downloads for this month, along with links to your usage numbers from previous months and additional data. We feel that the combination of views and downloads gives a more accurate picture of the interest in and usage of your publications than is reflected in download counts alone, particularly given the enhanced access readers have to your publications prior to download in the eScholarship interface.

UC Irvine Previously Published Works

For this month your total requests = 18786 (views=12031, downloads=6755).

Breakdown By Item

Top Ten Articles Viewed and Downloaded - April 2017

Item	Year	---- Number of Requests ----		Total	Added to
Title	Published	Views	Downloads	Requests	"My Items"
Beyond Looking for My Penis: Reflections on Asian Gay Male Video Porn	1999	248	1	249	0
Enterprise Risk Management: Review, Critique, and Research Directions	2015	84	63	147	0
Corporate social responsibility as a source of employee satisfaction	2012	63	26	89	1
Evaluation of the probe 2′,7′-dichlorofluorescin as an indicator of reactive oxygen species formation and oxidative stress	1992	41	45	86	0
Primary production of the biosphere: integrating terrestrial and oceanic components	1998	50	35	85	0
Emotion and False Memory	2016	52	32	84	0
Reconceptualizing Organizational Routines as a Source of Flexibility and Change	2003	52	27	79	0
Future CO2 Emissions and Climate Change from Existing Energy Infrastructure	2010	49	29	78	0
A Practice Theory Approach to Understanding the Interdependency of Nursing Practice and the Environment Implications for Nurse-Led Care Delivery Models	2015	46	31	77	0
False memories in highly superior autobiographical memory individuals	2013	49	25	74	0

More information about the UC Open Access Policy is available on the Open Access Policy pages.

Visit the Implementation Plan to learn more about the timeline for systemwide roll-out of the publication management system.

OCLC Research report on "The Realities of Research Data Management" - April 18, 2017

OCLC Research recently released the first report in a four part series entitled “The Realities of Research Data Management.” Additional webinars & reports will be following in the coming months. 

More information about OCLC Research investigations into research data management is available at http://www.oclc.org/research/themes/research-collections/rdm.html.

De Gruyter sponsors Directory of Open Access Books - April 13, 2017

De Gruyter sponsors DOAB
 

We are very pleased to announce that De Gruyter has decided to become a sponsor of the Directory of Open Access Books. With this sponsorship, De Gruyter celebrates the launch of the De Gruyter Open Access Book Library on degruyter.com. The Open Access Book Library is intended to draw attention to the growing number – and growing importance – of open access books. Of the almost 900 titles in the Library, approximately half are De Gruyter titles. The other half is supplied by publishing partners, but available on degruyter.com. This makes De Gruyter the largest independent publisher of original content open access books in the humanities.

“In 2005, De Gruyter was one of the first traditional publishers to offer open access books, we have continued to marry our centuries-old expertise in book publishing with our ability to provide open access models to the research and scholarly community,” said Dr. Anke Beck, Managing Director, De Gruyter. “As a part of the run up to celebrating 1000 titles later this year, we are very pleased to confirm our commitment to making open access book publishing a success by sponsoring DOAB.”

We are happy to say that DOAB is doing very well. Earlier this month, DOAB passed the milestone of 6000 listed OA books. In 2016 the list of OA books grew with over fifty percent for the third consecutive year, and DOAB continues to top the list of referral sites. Starting this year, DOAB is taking part in a European Horizon 2020 project (HIRMEOS), to develop a certification service for OA book publishers. The project will also add new features to DOAB: listing OA chapters of books and automated uploading of OA titles by publishers.

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POST: The Realities of Research Data Management

In a post on hangingtogether.org, Brian Lavoie (OCLC) announces the release of “A Tour of the Research Data Management (RDM) Service Space”, the first report in a series entitled “The Realities of Research Data Management” produced by OCLC Research. The series “explores the context and choices research universities face in building or acquiring RDM capacity,” and this first installment serves as an introduction. RDM is both an opportunity and a challenge for many research universities. But research data management is not a discrete, well-defined service, and RDM solutions are not of the one-size-fits-all variety. Moving beyond recognition of RDM’s importance requires facing the realities of research data management. Each institution must shape its local RDM service offering by navigating several key inflection points: deciding to act, deciding what to do, and deciding how to do it. Future reports in this series will examine these decisions in the context of the choices made by the case study partners. The additional reports in the series will be cover Scoping the Local RDM Service Offering, Understanding the Institutional Incentives for RDM Services, and Sourcing and Scaling RDM Services, and will be released on the OCLC Research website.

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The California Digital Library Supports the Initiative for Open Citations - April 6, 2017

The California Digital Library (CDL) is proud to announce our formal endorsement for the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC). CDL has long supported free and reusable scholarly work, as well as organizations and initiatives supporting citations in publication. With a growing database of literature and research data citations, there is a need for an open global network of citation data. The Initiative for Open Citations will work with Crossref and their Cited-by service to open up all references indexed in Crossref. Many publishers and stakeholders have opted in to participate in opening up their citation data, and we hope that each year this list will grow to encompass all fields of publication. Furthermore, we are looking forward to seeing how research data citations will be a part of this discussion. CDL is a firm believer in and advocate for data citations and persistent identifiers in scholarly work. However, if research publications are cited and those citations are not freely accessible and searchable- our goal is not accomplished. We are proud to support the Initiative for Open Citations and invite you to get in touch with any questions you may have about the need for open citations or ways to be an advocate for this necessary change. Below are some Frequently Asked Questions about the need, ways to get involved, and misconceptions regarding citations. The answers are provided by the Board and founders of the I4OC Initiative: I am a scholarly publisher not enrolled in the Cited-by service. How do I enable it? If not already a participant in Cited-by, a Crossref member can register for this service free-of-charge. Having done so, there is nothing further the publisher needs to do to ‘open’ its reference data, other than to give its consent to Crossref, since participation in Cited-by alone does not automatically make these references available via Crossref’s standard APIs. I am a scholarly publisher already depositing references to Crossref. How do I publicly release them? We encourage all publishers to make their reference metadata publicly available. If you are already submitting article metadata to Crossref as a participant in their Cited-by service, opening them can be achieved in a matter of days. Publishers can easily and freely achieve this: either by contacting Crossref support directly by e-mail, asking them to turn on reference distribution for all of the relevant DOI prefixes; or by themselves setting the < reference_distribution_opt > metadata element to “ any ” for each DOI deposit for which they want to make references openly available. How do I access open citation data? Once made open, the references for individual scholarly publications may be accessed immediately through the Crossref REST API. Open citations are also available from the OpenCitations Corpus , a database created to house scholarly citations, that is progressively and systematically harvested citation data from Crossref and other sources. An advantage of accessing citation data from the OpenCitations Corpus is that they are available in standards-compliant machine-readable RDF format , and include information about both incoming and outgoing citations of bibliographic resources (published articles and books). Does this initiative cover future citations only or also historical data? Both. All DOIs under a prefix set for open reference distribution will have open references through Crossref, for past, present, and future publications. Past and present publications that lack DOIs are not dealt with by Crossref, and gaining access to their citation data will require separate initiatives by their publishers or others to extract and openly publish those references. Under what licensing terms is citation data being made available? Crossref exposes article and reference metadata without a license, since it regards these as raw facts that cannot be licensed. The structured citation metadata within the OpenCitations Corpus are published under a Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication, to make it explicitly clear that these data are open. My journal is open access. Aren’t its articles’ citations automatically available? No. Although Open Access articles may be open and freely available to read on the publisher’s website, their references are not separate, and are not necessarily structured or accessible programmatically. Additionally, although their reference metadata may be submitted to Crossref, Crossref historically set the default for references to “closed,” with a manual opt-in being required for public references. Many publisher members have not been aware that they could simply instruct Crossref to make references open, and, as a neutral party, Crossref has not promoted the public reference option. All publishers therefore have to opt in to open distribution of references via Crossref. Is there a programmatic way to check whether a publisher’s or journal’s citation data is free to reuse? For Crossref metadata , their REST API reveals how many and which publishers have opened references. Any system or tool (or a JSON viewer) can be pointed to this query: http://api.crossref.org/members?filter=has-public-references:true&rows=1000 to show the count and the list of publishers with “ public-references “: true . To query a specific publisher’s status, use, for example: http://api.crossref.org/members?filter=has-public-references:true&rows=1000&qu ery=springer then find the tag for public-references. In some cases it will be set to false. Contact You can contact the founding group by e-mail at: info@i4oc.org .

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