Initiative for Open Citations

Initiative for Open Citations
AbbreviationI4OC
FormationApril 6, 2017 (2017-04-06)
Legal statusActive
PurposeUnrestricted availability of scholarly citation data
Websitei4oc.org

The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) is a project launched publicly in April 2017, that describes itself as: "a collaboration between scholarly publishers, researchers, and other interested parties to promote the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data and to make these data available." It is intended to facilitate improved citation analysis.