Dario and team, this is a terrific achievement. Proud to see the Foundation create transparency in citation data!
All the best, Victoria > On Apr 6, 2017, at 11:11 AM, Dario Taraborelli <dtarabore...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > Hey all, > > I wanted to let you know that we launched an initiative this morning > called: Initiative for Open Citations <https://i4oc.org/> (I4OC). > > Prior to the launch of I4OC, only 1% of scholarly papers made citation data > available in the open. Today, that number has jumped to 40%. We're proud to > make a growing piece of fundamental data for open knowledge available to > everyone, with no copyright restriction whatsoever. > > The I4OC has been in the making for the past 6 months, with lots of > individual discussions with scholarly publishers, asking them to flip the > switch and release this data. Wikimedia Deutschland, Wikimedia UK, the Wiki > Edu Foundation, the Internet Archive, Mozilla, PLOS and many other open > knowledge and open data organizations are among the official endorsers of > the initiative. > > You can read more about this initiative on a post > <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/04/06/initiative-for-open-citations/> we > published this morning on the Wikimedia Blog, on the joint press release > <https://i4oc.org/press.html>, or follow @i4oc_org > <https://twitter.com/i4oc_org> for more updates. > > Best, > Dario > > > > -- > > *Dario Taraborelli *Director, Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation > wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter > <http://twitter.com/readermeter> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
