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ecancer joins the Open Citations Corpus

21 Feb 2013
ecancer joins the Open Citations Corpus

As a committed supporter of making the results of scientific research available to all, ecancermedicalscience has now opened the bibliographic citation data in our journal article reference lists.  We are doing this via the Open Citations Corpus, an Open Access resource, developed at the University of Oxford, that gathers bibliographic citations between scholarly articles and publishes these as open linked data in a number of formats including BibJSON and RDF.

Made possible by a small R&D grant from the JISC, the original Open Citations Corpus was first populated by reference lists from ~200,000 articles within the Open Access Subset of PubMed Central, containing about 6.4 million references. As part of the planned extension of the Open Citations Project, they are now planning to broaden their ingest, harvesting article reference lists on an on-going basis via CrossRef.