<div dir="ltr"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><font>[Forwarding from David Shotton, with his permission. The original is dated January 7, 2013. --Peter Suber.]<br></font></font><div class="gmail_quote"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br>
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<font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Dear colleagues, <br>
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Happy New
Year!<br>
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I thought you would like to be aware of the following e-mail, that I am sending to all publishers I know personally. I have already written to the Open Access
Scholarly Publishers Association, the
International Association of Scientific,
Technical & Medical Publishers, and the Association of
Learned and Professional Society Publishers,
asking them to distribute
the open letter to all their members. CrossRef will also distribute it
with its quarterly
newsletter later this month. PLoS,
Hindawi and BMC have already signed
up.<br>
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If you are able to
forward this to publishers you know
personally, who are in a position to
effect this Open Citations policy
for their journals,
I would be most grateful.<br>
<br>
I have tried to
eliminate cross-postings, but apologies if
anyone has also
received this information
through a different
channel.<br>
<br>
David<br>
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Dear ***,<br>
<br>
Last week, on January 3rd, I published an open letter to
scholarly journal publishers asking them to open the reference
lists from their journal articles for inclusion in the
expanding Open Citations Corpus (OCC). This letter, which is
described in and linked to from my blog post <a href="http://opencitations.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/open-letter-to-publishers/" target="_blank"><b>Open
letter
to publishers</b></a>, contains a draft e-mail to
CrossRef, reproduced below, to be used by individual
publishers, permitting CrossRef to open that publisher's
reference lists for harvesting by OCC. <br>
<br>
I am now writing to you personally to ask you to send a copy
of this e-mail, suitably completed, to <a href="mailto:support@crossref.org" target="_blank">support@crossref.org</a>,
permitting the reference lists from your journal articles to
be made open. Alternatively, if you are not in a position to
make this decision, please forward the e-mail to the
appropriate person, and copy me in on that forward. Thanks.
<br>
<br>
Provided a publisher is already depositing article references
with CrossRef as part of the CrossRef <a href="http://www.crossref.org/citedby/" target="_blank">CitedBy Linking</a>
service, all the publisher need to do is to inform CrossRef
that it is willing for CrossRef to freely distribute these
reference, for example in response to queries against the
CrossRef XML API. We will then harvest them from CrossRef and
incorporate them as open linked data in the <a href="http://opencitations.wordpress.com/2012/07/16/open-citations-extension-project/" target="_blank">Open
Citations
Corpus</a>.<span> </span>If not
already a subscriber to the CrossRef <a href="http://www.crossref.org/citedby/" target="_blank">CitedBy Linking</a>
service, a publisher can register for this useful service free
of charge. Having done so, there is nothing further the
publisher needs to do to ‘open’ its reference data, other than
to give its consent to CrossRef.<br>
<br>
<u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u>Please note that even if some or all
of your journals are already Open Access, it is still
necessary for you to inform CrossRef of your willingness for
CrossRef to make your reference lists available, because
CrossRef policy is that all publishers, including open access
publishers, have to <b>opt in</b> to any distribution of
references that CrossRef makes. However, this need only
happen once. Thereafter, there is nothing more you need to do
- CrossRef and OCC will do the rest.<br>
<br>
Many thanks indeed. This small act will contribute
significantly to the growing movement towards fully open
science advocated so eloquently by the Royal Society in its
report <a href="http://royalsociety.org/policy/projects/science-public-enterprise/report/" target="_blank"><b>Science
as
</b></a><a href="http://royalsociety.org/policy/projects/science-public-enterprise/report/" target="_blank"><b>an
Open
Enterprise</b></a>, published last June. <br>
<br>
David</big><u></u><u></u><br>
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<p><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">=== <u></u><u></u></font></p>
<p><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">To <a href="mailto:support@crossref.org" target="_blank">support@crossref.org</a>
Subject: Permission to publish reference lists from journal
articles<u></u><u></u></font></p>
<p><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">I am writing on behalf of ***
[name of publisher] to confirm that <span style="background:yellow">*** [name of publisher] </span>is
willing for the bibliographic reference lists within the
articles in <span style="color:blue">[delete as necessary:]
</span><b>all our journals </b><span style="color:blue">[or]
</span><b>the attached list of journals </b>be made freely
available by CrossRef, for inclusion in the Open Citations
Corpus. These journals are associated with the following DOI
prefix(es): 10.**** <span style="color:blue">[Please
complete DOI prefix(es) – see footnote]</span>. <u></u><u></u></font></p>
<p><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Yours sincerely [name,
position, date] <br>
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<p><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><b><i><span style="color:red">Footnote</span></i></b>:
Publisher's DOI prefixes are listed at <a href="http://www.crossref.org/06members/50go-live.html" target="_blank">http://www.crossref.org/06members/50go-live.html</a>
by name of publisher. <u></u><u></u></font></p>
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<pre><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Dr David Shotton <u></u><u></u></font></pre>
<pre><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Research Data Management and Semantic Publishing Research Group<u></u><u></u></font></pre>
<pre><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Department of Zoology, University of Oxford <u></u><u></u></font></pre>
<pre><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK. <u></u><u></u></font></pre>
<pre><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Phone: <a href="tel:%2B44-%280%291865-271193" value="+441865271193" target="_blank">+44-(0)1865-271193</a><span> </span>Skype: davidshotton<span> </span><u></u><u></u></font></pre>
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