2015/02/18 by Silvio Peroni, Alexander Dutton, Tanya Gray +1 · 3 citations
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Research Data Management Practices #scientometrics and bibliometrics research #Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies #Citation #Open data #Computer science #Reuse #Public domain #World Wide Web #Information retrieval #Data science #History
paper · doi:10.1108/jd-12-2013-0166
openalex publication_date 2015/02/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
Purpose – Citation data needs to be recognised as a part of the Commons – those works that are freely and legally available for sharing – and placed in an open repository. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach – The Open Citation Corpus is a new open repository of scholarly citation data, made available under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 public domain dedication and encoded as Open Linked Data using the SPAR Ontologies. Findings – The Open Citation Corpus presently provides open access (OA) to reference lists from 204,637 articles from the OA Subset of PubMed Central, containing 6,325,178 individual references to 3,373,961 unique papers. Originality/value – Scholars, publishers and institutions may freely build upon, enhance and reuse the open citation data for any purpose, without restriction under copyright or database law.