GATE Press encourages authors to share data. Data sharing benefits a lot: facilitates scientific research and knowledge discovery; increases the reproducibility and reliability of research; as well as fosters collaboration and innovation, improves the efficiency of research, and increases the value and application of data.

The Initiative for Open Citations I4OC is a collaboration between scholarly publishers, researchers, and other interested parties to promote the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data.

The aim of this initiative is to promote the availability of data on citations that are structured, separable, and open. Structured means the data representing each publication and each citation instance are expressed in common, machine-readable formats, and that these data can be accessed programmatically. Separable means the citation instances can be accessed and analysed without the need to access the source bibliographic products (such as journal articles and books) in which the citations are created. Open means the data are freely accessible and reusable.

As a participating publisher, all journal titles deposit reference lists from journal articles to Crossref allowing references to be distributed without restriction through all of Crossref’s Metadata Delivery services to any interested party.