IOP Publishing (IOPP) has joined the Initiative for Open Abstracts
<https://i4oa.org> (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
<https://www.crossref.org>, 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 <https://i4oa.org/>.

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