OpenCitations for Open Science

OpenCitations has been established as a fully free and open infrastructure to provide access to global scholarly bibliographic and citation data. OpenCitations enables: a) fairness since it avoids institutions and independent scholars having to pay tens of thousands of dollars annually (that most of them cannot afford!) for commercial access to their own scholarly data; b) reuse since there are no license restrictions and all data are provided under CC0, so users can re-publish and reuse for any purpose the citation data that OpenCitations provides; c) research assessment, since we provide open data usable for national and international research evaluation exercises, enabling one to make such activities transparent and reproducible; d) governance since the community is directly involved in the evolution of the infrastructure.