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Introduction to Crossref
History
Mission
Members
Crossref Community Webinar - Asia Pacific 12-14-2016
Our truths
• Smart alone, brilliant together

• If you publish, you’re a publisher

• One member, one vote

• Love metadata, love technology

• Politic, not political

• Here today, here tomorrow
About us
• Founded in 2000 with 12 publishers

• Not for profit membership organization

• 30 staff based in Oxford, UK and Boston, USA

• outreach, tech, development, product, operations

• Publishers, libraries, sponsors, affiliated
organizations, researchers, all use our services.
Crossref Community Webinar - Asia Pacific 12-14-2016
Governance and Committees
• 16 member board, cross section of international
publishers

• one member, one vote, including publishers
represented by a sponsor - each of you has a vote 

• Board elections each November

• Advisory Groups and Committees
Board members
Chair - Bernard Rous, ACM

Treasurer - Gerry Grenier, IEEE

Jason Wilde, AIP Publishing 

Jasper Simons, APA

Helen King, BMJ

Mark Patterson, eLIFE

Chris Shillum, Elsevier

Paul Peters, Hindawi

Ian Banerman, Informa UK

James Walker, IOP Publishing

John Shaw, SAGE

Wim van der Stelt, Springer Nature

Eleonora Dagiene, VGTU Press

Eric Merkel-Sobotta, Walter de Gruyter

Peter Marney, John Wiley & Sons

Helen Zhang, Zhejiang University Press
Crossref overview
• 5500 publisher members

• Metadata store of over 85 million scholarly content items

• Persistent citation linking

• Funder identifiers

• Report and display corrections & retractions

• Check manuscripts for similarities

• Data about content activity e.g. social, dataset links

• Open Metadata API & Search
Crossref isn’t the only DOI Registration Agency
Who uses Crossref?
• Publishing vendors

• Peer review systems

• Reference manager systems

• Lab & diagnostics suppliers

• Info management systems

• Educational tools

• Data analytics systems

• Literature discovery services

• Registration Agencies
• Funders

• Institutions

• Archives & repositories

• Research councils 

• Data centres

• Professional networks 

• Patent offices

• Indexing services
Crossref Members and Affiliates by Year
0
400
800
1200
1600
2000 - 2016
00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
1538
1457
1172
774
712
598
428
370359351332326
376
201
123
4254
New Members YTD 2016
0
200
400
600
800
Sponsors Affiliates Libs Sponsored Pubs Pubs Rep Members
684
714
6562
74
Crossref Membership excluding US
and Europe
Turkey
513
Japan
853
India
252
So. Korea
1467
Russia
327
Indonesia
176
Brazil
578
85,000,000
content items
• Journals
• Books
• Conference proceedings
• Standards
• Technical reports
• Working Papers
• Theses and dissertations
• Components (figures, tables)
• Datasets (supplementary data)
• Preprints - newest!
What are we up to?
• We rebranded

• More in-person events

• Strengthening links with broader community

• Accelerating development

• Building new website

• Launched new help website

• Outreach & marketing teams established
New
Linked Clinical Trials
CrossMark redesign
ORCID Auto-Update
Posted content
Soon
Early Content Registration
Event Data
New website
Participation reports
Crossref Community Webinar - Asia Pacific 12-14-2016
Questions?
Crossref DOI display guidelines
• Crossref will be updating its DOI Display Guidelines. This is a big deal.
We last made a change in 2011 so it’s not something that happens
often or that we take lightly. 

• Old format was http://dx.doi.org/ 

• In short, the changes are to drop “dx” from DOI links and to use
“https:” rather than “http:”. An example of the new best practice in
displaying a Crossref DOI link is: https://doi.org/10.1629/22161
Crossref Community Webinar - Asia Pacific 12-14-2016
Crossref Community Webinar - Asia Pacific 12-14-2016
Crossref DOIs appear in references on the web page
New DOI display guidelines
• Always make the DOI a full link – https://doi.org/
10.1006/jmbi.1995.0238 – even when it’s on the
abstract or full text page of the content that the DOI
identifies – and use “https://doi.org/”.

• http://blog.crossref.org/2016/09/new-crossref-doi-
display-guidelines.html
New DOI display guidelines
• Effective March 2017

• For content going forward - you do not need to
change already published content

• http://dx.doi.org/ will continue to work and will be
supported forever
Questions?
Crossref Community Webinar - Asia Pacific 12-14-2016
Crossref Community Webinar - Asia Pacific 12-14-2016
• Search, filter, facet, sample Crossref metadata

• Free to use

• Do whatever you want with the data

• Code publicly available: http://github.com/CrossRef
Titles, authors, ISSNs, ISBNs
Basic metadata
Journal articles, conference proceedings, data, standards
Funding Information
Funder identifiers, award numbers
License Information

License URIs (NISO ALI)
Full-text locations
URIs direct to full-text articles (used in TDM)
ORCIDs
Significant updates

Retractions, corrections
Publishers Crossref
What are people doing with it?
• Search services (including Crossref’s funding and
metadata searches)

• Bibliography / PDF library management tools

• Reporting on funding activities, publishing

• activities, author activities

• Ingest of scholarly metadata (OAI-PMH replacement)
and metadata lookup

• Locating full-texts for content mining
Crossref Community Webinar - Asia Pacific 12-14-2016
Crossref Community Webinar - Asia Pacific 12-14-2016
api.crossref.org
What’s in store for 2017?
• Save the date: Crossref LIVE17, Singapore,
14-15th November 2017
• Specific webinars: Crossmark, Similarity
Check, Preprints
Presenter Name

Presenter Title

@twittername
Metadata Deposit Tool
A new web-based member application for manual deposits & updates to
metadata records:
● streamlined, end-to-end deposit workflow
● flexibly supports single & multiple deposits
● informative inline help to facilitate successful deposits
● easy corrections to non-successful deposits
Planned launch of Q2.
Contact us (feedback@crossref.org) to participate
in beta (Q1 end).

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Crossref Community Webinar - Asia Pacific 12-14-2016

  • 3. Our truths • Smart alone, brilliant together • If you publish, you’re a publisher • One member, one vote • Love metadata, love technology • Politic, not political • Here today, here tomorrow
  • 4. About us • Founded in 2000 with 12 publishers • Not for profit membership organization • 30 staff based in Oxford, UK and Boston, USA • outreach, tech, development, product, operations • Publishers, libraries, sponsors, affiliated organizations, researchers, all use our services.
  • 6. Governance and Committees • 16 member board, cross section of international publishers • one member, one vote, including publishers represented by a sponsor - each of you has a vote • Board elections each November • Advisory Groups and Committees
  • 7. Board members Chair - Bernard Rous, ACM Treasurer - Gerry Grenier, IEEE Jason Wilde, AIP Publishing Jasper Simons, APA Helen King, BMJ Mark Patterson, eLIFE Chris Shillum, Elsevier Paul Peters, Hindawi Ian Banerman, Informa UK James Walker, IOP Publishing John Shaw, SAGE Wim van der Stelt, Springer Nature Eleonora Dagiene, VGTU Press Eric Merkel-Sobotta, Walter de Gruyter Peter Marney, John Wiley & Sons Helen Zhang, Zhejiang University Press
  • 8. Crossref overview • 5500 publisher members • Metadata store of over 85 million scholarly content items • Persistent citation linking • Funder identifiers • Report and display corrections & retractions • Check manuscripts for similarities • Data about content activity e.g. social, dataset links • Open Metadata API & Search
  • 9. Crossref isn’t the only DOI Registration Agency
  • 10. Who uses Crossref? • Publishing vendors • Peer review systems • Reference manager systems • Lab & diagnostics suppliers • Info management systems • Educational tools • Data analytics systems • Literature discovery services • Registration Agencies • Funders • Institutions • Archives & repositories • Research councils • Data centres • Professional networks • Patent offices • Indexing services
  • 11. Crossref Members and Affiliates by Year 0 400 800 1200 1600 2000 - 2016 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 1538 1457 1172 774 712 598 428 370359351332326 376 201 123 4254
  • 12. New Members YTD 2016 0 200 400 600 800 Sponsors Affiliates Libs Sponsored Pubs Pubs Rep Members 684 714 6562 74
  • 13. Crossref Membership excluding US and Europe Turkey 513 Japan 853 India 252 So. Korea 1467 Russia 327 Indonesia 176 Brazil 578
  • 15. • Journals • Books • Conference proceedings • Standards • Technical reports • Working Papers • Theses and dissertations • Components (figures, tables) • Datasets (supplementary data) • Preprints - newest!
  • 16. What are we up to? • We rebranded • More in-person events • Strengthening links with broader community • Accelerating development • Building new website • Launched new help website • Outreach & marketing teams established
  • 17. New Linked Clinical Trials CrossMark redesign ORCID Auto-Update Posted content
  • 18. Soon Early Content Registration Event Data New website Participation reports
  • 21. Crossref DOI display guidelines • Crossref will be updating its DOI Display Guidelines. This is a big deal. We last made a change in 2011 so it’s not something that happens often or that we take lightly. • Old format was http://dx.doi.org/ • In short, the changes are to drop “dx” from DOI links and to use “https:” rather than “http:”. An example of the new best practice in displaying a Crossref DOI link is: https://doi.org/10.1629/22161
  • 24. Crossref DOIs appear in references on the web page
  • 25. New DOI display guidelines • Always make the DOI a full link – https://doi.org/ 10.1006/jmbi.1995.0238 – even when it’s on the abstract or full text page of the content that the DOI identifies – and use “https://doi.org/”. • http://blog.crossref.org/2016/09/new-crossref-doi- display-guidelines.html
  • 26. New DOI display guidelines • Effective March 2017 • For content going forward - you do not need to change already published content • http://dx.doi.org/ will continue to work and will be supported forever
  • 30. • Search, filter, facet, sample Crossref metadata • Free to use • Do whatever you want with the data • Code publicly available: http://github.com/CrossRef
  • 31. Titles, authors, ISSNs, ISBNs Basic metadata Journal articles, conference proceedings, data, standards Funding Information Funder identifiers, award numbers License Information License URIs (NISO ALI) Full-text locations URIs direct to full-text articles (used in TDM) ORCIDs Significant updates Retractions, corrections Publishers Crossref
  • 32. What are people doing with it? • Search services (including Crossref’s funding and metadata searches) • Bibliography / PDF library management tools • Reporting on funding activities, publishing • activities, author activities • Ingest of scholarly metadata (OAI-PMH replacement) and metadata lookup • Locating full-texts for content mining
  • 36. What’s in store for 2017? • Save the date: Crossref LIVE17, Singapore, 14-15th November 2017 • Specific webinars: Crossmark, Similarity Check, Preprints
  • 37. Presenter Name Presenter Title @twittername Metadata Deposit Tool A new web-based member application for manual deposits & updates to metadata records: ● streamlined, end-to-end deposit workflow ● flexibly supports single & multiple deposits ● informative inline help to facilitate successful deposits ● easy corrections to non-successful deposits Planned launch of Q2. Contact us ([email protected]) to participate in beta (Q1 end).