The Initiative for Open Citations celebrates its first birthday

In celebration, and to mark the progress made, we've designated this month as Open Citations Month.

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How we know what we know: The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) helps unlock millions of connections between scholarly research

Citations are the backbone of scholarly knowledge. They help researchers verify information, build on the existing knowledge we already know, and generate opportunity for new discoveries. Citations are not only relevant to academia. They are the foundation for how we know what we know. Until recently, the idea of creating a freely accessible repository of open….

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