Initiative for Open Citations

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August 2022 The number of articles with freely accessible and reusable reference lists exceeded 60 million, out of 134 million articles indexed by Crossref.
January 2021 Elsevier finally joined the Initiative for Open Citations after the citation data was already available with an Open Data Commons license in Microsoft Academic.
January 2019 The Editorial board of Elsevier's Journal of Informetrics resigned and launched a new journal, Quantitative Science Studies, specifically citing Elsevier's lack of support for the Initiative for Open Citations as a primary reason for their departure.
April 2017 Elsevier's vice-president of corporate relations, Tom Reller, publicly commented on the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), indicating the company's initial resistance to joining the initiative.

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