Publishing Policies
The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC)
The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) is a collaboration between scholarly publishers, researchers, and other interested parties to promote the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data.
About I4OC
The aim of this initiative is to promote the availability of data on citations that are structured, separable, and open.
Structured
The data representing each publication and each citation instance are expressed in common, machine-readable formats, and these data can be accessed programmatically.
Separable
The citation instances can be accessed and analysed without the need to access the source bibliographic products (such as journal articles and books) in which the citations are created.
Open
The data are freely accessible and reusable by any interested party without restriction.
NovaVel's Participation
NovaVel Journals are now participating in I4OC (listed under the participating publishers). As a participating publisher, NovaVel journal titles deposit reference lists from journal articles to Crossref, allowing references to be distributed without restriction through all of Crossref's Metadata Delivery services to any interested party.