IOP Publishing makes abstracts openly available

October 21, 2021

Just sharing this, it is an important and very welcome development. All I have done is added numbers and reference list at the bottom so I can include it as quoted text. Sorry about the formatting.

IOP Publishing (IOPP) has joined the Initiative for Open Abstracts [1]  (I4OA), a collaboration between publishers, infrastructure organisations, librarians, and researchers to promote the open availability of 
abstracts.

IOPP will deposit abstracts of their scholarly communications with Crossref [2]
, the not-for-profit Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registration agency bringing together abstracts in a common format in one searchable cross-disciplinary database.

By joining the initiative, IOPP will make all of its abstracts part of the 
fundamental metadata of the article so that they will be openly available and 
accessible to the scientific community for unrestricted machine reading. This 
expanded availability of article abstracts will boost the discoverability of 
scholarly research and increase their impact.

Daniel Keirs, IOPP’s Head of Journal Strategy and Performance, says: “We are 
excited to be joining the I4OA initiative as it supports our goal of increasing 
access to research in the disciplines we represent. We believe that I4OA will 
help to enhance the impact, recognition and value of our researchers’ scholarly 
publications through the unlimited, centralised discoverability the initiative 
enables.”

Ludo Waltman, Coordinator of I4OA, says: “We are pleased to have IOPP join our 
initiative. Having IOPP join a growing number of academic publishers shows their 
continued commitment to open science to expand the world of physics. As one of 
the largest publishers supporting I4OA, it’s great to have IOPP on board and we 
hope that many other publishers will follow their lead”

Find out more on the I4OA website [3]

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REFERENCES

1 https://i4oa.org 2 https://www.crossref.org 3 https://i4oa.org/ 4 https://ioppublishing.org/news/iop-publishing-makes-abstracts-openly-available 5 https://ioppublishing.org