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Date: 14 April 2014 16:37<br>Subject: [EIFL-OA] The Open Citation Corpus (OCC) to be hosted by Infrastructure Services for Open Access<br>To: <a href="mailto:hilton.gibson@gmail.com">hilton.gibson@gmail.com</a><br>Cc: EIFL - Open Access program announcement and discussion list <<a href="mailto:eifloa@lists.eifl.net">eifloa@lists.eifl.net</a>><br>
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<div>Announcement from Infrastructure Services for Open Access, IS4OA (<a href="http://www.is4oa.org" target="_blank">www.is4oa.org</a>):</div>
<div></div><div><br></div><div>IS4OA is pleased to announce that from May 1st 2014, it will adopt the Open Citations Corpus (OCC) as one of the academic Open Access services that it supports, providing it with an organisational structure within which it can attain financial sustainability and growth.</div>
<div><p>The act of bibliographic citation – a scholar referencing the
published work of others – is central to scholarly communication,
permitting the attribution of credit and integrating our independent
research endeavours. Citations knit together the whole world of
scholarship into a gigantic citation network, a directed graph with
publications as the nodes and citations as the links between them.
Scholarly communication involves the flow of information and ideas
through this citation network, and analysis of changes in the network
over time can reveal patterns of communication between scholars and the
development and demise of academic disciplines.</p>
<p>Open Citations Corpus (OCC) joins the Directory of Open Access
Journals (DOAJ) under the IS4OA umbrella. Further services will join
them over time. The aim is to provide a safe home where a set of
services critical to Open Access can flourish in a mutually supportive,
forward-looking and sustainable business environment.</p>
<p>The ambition is that OCC will increase its coverage substantially.
Based on promising communications with leading stakeholders in the
scholarly communication community, we are confident that OCC can develop
into a central piece of infrastructure for open science. As soon as the
transition has taken place, work will begin to bring more content into
the corpus.</p>
<h3>About OCC</h3>
<p>The <a title="Open Citations Corpus" href="http://opencitations.net" target="_blank">Open Citations Corpus (OCC)</a>
is an open access repository of scholarly citation data, information
about the author-created bibliographic references present in scholarly
publications that cite other scholarly publications.</p>
<p>The Open Citations Corpus was initially developed at the University
of Oxford with funding from Jisc, a UK information-technology research
and development funding organization (<a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.jisc.ac.uk</a>),
under the direction of Dr David Shotton, who at that time was working
in the Department of Zoology, and who is currently an emeritus reader in
that department and a senior researcher in the Oxford e-Research
Centre. A cell and molecular biologist by background, Dr Shotton and
his group have in recent years developed a variety of open source tools,
ontologies and services for research data management, data integration,
data publication, metadata creation and semantic publishing.</p>
<h3>About IS4OA</h3>
<p>Infrastructure Services for Open Access C.I.C. (IS4OA) is a Community
Interest Company based in the United Kingdom, i.e. a not-for-profit
charitable company limited by guarantee under UK law. The company’s
activities are designed to provide benefit to the global community of
research information users by providing openly accessible information
and discovery services relating to academic information, research
results and scholarly publications that are free to use. Researchers,
students in higher education, independent researchers, the education
community, industry, innovative companies, small- and medium-sized (SME)
companies, professionals, practitioners, civil servants and the general
public are all potential users of research results, and the company’s
activities to promote the wide and open distribution and dissemination
of research information and scholarly knowledge will benefit society
worldwide.</p>
<p>IS4OA acts as an umbrella organisation for open access activities and
services that are of value to the academic community and beyond. It
provides business structure and expertise, and a means of obtaining and
channelling financial support for these activities and services. Where
appropriate, it will also facilitate their cooperation or integration in
mutually beneficial ways. In December 2012, IS4OA took responsibility
for the operation and development of its first service, the Directory of
Open Access Journals (DOAJ; <a href="http://www.doaj.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.doaj.org/</a>). The Open Citations Corpus is the second such service to be adopted by IS4OA</p>
<p>IS4OA was founded in 2012 by Dr Alma Swan and Dr Caroline Sutton. Dr
Swan is a consultant working in the field of scholarly communication, a
Director of IS4OA, Director of European Advocacy Programmes for SPARC
Europe, Director of Key Perspectives Ltd, and Convenor for Enabling Open
Scholarship, the organisation of universities promoting the principles
of open scholarship in the academic community. Dr Sutton is a
recognised advocate and expert on Open Access publishing, a Director of
IS4OA, Publisher and Co-Founder of Co-Action Publishing, and the
immediate past-President of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers
Association (OASPA). She also serves as Chair of the Advisory Board for
OAPEN, and has served as a member of the SPARC Europe Board. In 2013
Lars Bjørnshauge joined IS4OA as Director and as Managing Director of
DOAJ. Lars Bjørnshauge is founder of DOAJ, co-founder of OpenDOAR and
Directory of Open Access Books, currently Director of SPARC Europe and
serves on the Board of OASPA.</p>
<p>For further information, please contact Dr Alma Swan (a[.]swan [at]
talk21[.]com) or Dr David Shotton (david[.]shotton [at]
oerc[.]ox[.]ac[.]uk).</p></div><div></div><div><a href="http://is4oa.org/services/open-citations-corpus/" target="_blank">http://is4oa.org/services/open-citations-corpus/</a></div><div><br></div><div>regards</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><br><div>Lars Bjørnshauge</div><div>Managing Director</div><div>DOAJ</div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div></div>
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