September 29, 2025Open Access

The Initiative for Open Abstracts: Celebrating our first anniversary

Key Points

The Initiative for Open Abstracts celebrates its first anniversary, marking a year of progress in open access publishing.
Founded on September 24, the initiative aimed to improve academic access in the publishing industry and research centers.
In collaboration with university libraries and industry colleagues, I4OA has fostered community and support for open abstracts.
The initiative emphasizes the need for better scholarly infrastructure to enhance research accessibility and collaboration.

Abstract

On September 24 last year, the Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) was launched. We started the initiative together with a group of colleagues working in the publishing industry, for scholarly infrastructure organizations, at university libraries, and at science studies research centers.

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Waltman et al. (Wed,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68da5a3ec1728099cfd11af5 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.59350/s2szz-e2r41