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Citations are indispensable part of scholarly publications because they direct readers to sources, acknowledge other works in bibliographic references, help researchers avoid misconduct such as plagiarism, and enable the evaluation of publications.<ref name=":0">Initiative for Open Citations. [cited 2021 Sept 13]. Available from: https://i4oc.org/.</ref><ref name=":1">Boyes B. What is the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), and why is it important? 2018 Sept 25. [cited 2021 Sept 13]. Real KM Evidence based. Practical results. Available from: https://realkm.com/2018/09/25/what-is-the-initiative-for-open-citations-i4oc-and-why-is-it-important/. </ref>

Usually citation data are not freely accessible or machine-readable, which makes them unavailable to a great number of independent scholars.<ref name=":0" /><ref>Peroni S, Shotton D. OpenCitations, an infrastructure organization for open scholarship. Quantitative Science Studies. 2020;1(1):428-444. </ref> To enhance their use, they should be available to everyone. They should also be structured (expressed in a machine-readable format), separable (available without the need to go to the source, such as articles or books), and open (freely accessible and reusable without restrictions).<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> Achieving this aim would be beneficial to independent researchers, publishers, funding agencies, academic institutions and the public in general.<ref name=":0" />
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The Initiative has asked scholarly publishers, who were already depositing the reference lists of their publications at Crossref, to make them open and available to everyone. Before this Initiative, only 1% of all references deposited at Crossref were open. As of August 2021, the percentage of publications with open references has grown from 1% to 88% out of 56.1 million articles with references submitted to Crossref.<ref name=":0">Initiative for Open Citations. [cited 2021 Sept 13]. Available from: https://i4oc.org/.</ref>

Among significant publishers there are [https://www.crossref.org/members/prep/239 BMJ], [https://www.crossref.org/members/prep/56 Cambridge University Press], [https://www.crossref.org/members/prep/281 MIT Press], [https://www.crossref.org/members/prep/286 Oxford University Press], [https://www.crossref.org/members/prep/292 The Royal Society of Chemistry], [https://www.crossref.org/members/prep/179 SAGE Publications], and [https://www.crossref.org/members/prep/311 Wiley].<ref name=":0" /> You can see the full list [https://i4oc.org/#:~:text=Participating%20publishers here].
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