The Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) is a collaboration between scholarly publishers, infrastructure organizations, librarians, researchers and other interested parties to advocate and promote the unrestricted availability of the abstracts of the world's scholarly publications, particularly journal articles and book chapters, in trusted repositories where they are open and machine-accessible. I4OA calls on all scholarly publishers to open the abstracts of their published works, and where possible to submit them to Crossref.

I4OA was launched at the OASPA conference on September 24, 2020. More information about the initiative will be given in an online public launch event on October 5, 2020. You are very welcome to join this event. Registration is required.

Program

• Welcome (David Shotton, OpenCitations & University of Oxford)

• What is I4OA? (Ludo Waltman, Leiden University)

• What is the current availability of open abstracts? (Bianca Kramer, Utrecht University)

• Who benefits from open abstracts? (Aaron Tay, Singapore Management University)

• Why are publishers making abstracts openly available? (Catriona MacCallum, Hindawi; Helen Duce, SAGE; Sarah Whalen, AAAS)

• How can I make abstracts openly available? (Ginny Hendricks, Crossref)

• Q&A

• Wrap-up and next steps (David Shotton, OpenCitations & University of Oxford)