The Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) was launched at the conference of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) on September 24, 2020. The International Journal of Research in Science and Engineering has agreed to support the initiative by making all articles and abstracts openly available. In addition, International Journal of Research in Science and Engineering has also agreed to support the Initiative of Open Citations (I4OC) by making all articles references openly available.