Crossref reposted this
So much good stuff is happening at Crossref lately, and this is one—well, two—of the things, both approved by our board at its July meeting as two halves of the same approach... ➜ From January 2027, we're lowering DOI registration fees and removing them altogether for anything produced more than two years ago. That second part is significant: if you're an archive, a repository, publisher, or a national library sitting on decades or even centuries of material, registering that will cost nothing. We're also going from 16 different fee points down to three, so working out what you'll pay will get a lot easier. We forecast we'll lose roughly $760K in revenue in 2027, but are confident it can be absorbed given our ten-year growth trend. https://lnkd.in/ecz9gMBJ ➜ Additionally, we're investing $4.9m to rebuild the Crossref system. Two decades of adding functionality and services beyond the DOI have left us with two large, tightly coupled monoliths where changing one thing risks breaking another, so this is the unglamorous (for some!) work of taking them apart properly and rebuilding and improving as we go—this time for real. Watch our jobs page for hiring notices as we augment the team for this three-year project. https://lnkd.in/eNTuJMnh Both expenditures come from the same place: the surpluses our 25,000 members from around the world have contributed over recent years. So thank you; you are the ones who funded this. Thanks too to our Membership & Fees Committee for hours on the proposals and discussions, to our amazing board for asking us the properly challenging questions on the community's behalf, and to the colleagues who did lots of the planning work, wrote stuff up and consulted, and will help get it all done—too many to tag!