14 March 2022
AIP Publishing has joined the Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) to boost the discoverability of scholarly research and increase its impact by making journal article abstracts open and findable.
I4OA is a collaboration between scholarly publishers, librarians, researchers, and infrastructure organizations, to promote availability of journal-article and book-chapter abstracts in trusted repositories where they are open and machine-accessible. Through the Crossref infrastructure, I4OA brings abstracts together in a common format in a searchable cross-disciplinary database. This provides opportunities for analysis via text mining, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence.
Alix Vance, CEO of AIP Publishing says: “Early in 2022, AIPP committed to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Publishers Compact objectives that align with our nonprofit mission to broaden access to published research and data, sustainably and equitably. AIPP’s abstracts have been publicly accessible for some time, the I4OA initiative will help make them more discoverable and machine-readable for global researchers to build upon.”
Ludo Waltman, Coordinator of I4OA says: “We are very pleased that AIP Publishing is making abstracts openly available through Crossref and has joined our initiative. We hope that many other publishers in the physical sciences will follow the example set by AIP Publishing.”