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Although many abstracts are available in different bibliographic databases, their use is limited in a number of ways. For example, they require a subscription, they are not machine-accessible, or are restricted to a one specific discipline.<ref name=":0">Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA): A Cross-Publisher Initiative to Promote Unrestricted Availability of Abstracts. 2020 Sept 24. [cited 2021 Sept 8]. Available from: https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/2189.</ref> The most important benefits of open abstracts are their visibility, and easier use of text mining,<ref>Initiative for Open Abstracts. [cited 2021 Sept 8]. Available from: https://i4oa.org/. </ref> especially for researchers in developing countries who perhaps do not have the means for subscription to expensive journals.<ref name=":1">Schiermeier Q. Initiative pushes to make journal abstracts free to read in one place. Nature. 2020 Oct 12. [cited 2021 Sept 8]. Available from: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02851-y.</ref>

The initiative recommends scholarly publishers to make their abstracts more visible and easily accessible by depositing them to Crossref, a non-profit open repository that publishers use to register and share Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for their publications.<ref name=":0" /> Through Crossref, research abstracts across disciplines will become easily searchable and machine-readable.<ref name=":1" />

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