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Crossmark Kirsty Meddings
Product Manager
Tuesday 21st November 2017
What is Crossmark
A button and a set of metadata that informs readers about
Publication status (current, updated, retracted)
Funding information
Authors’ ORCIDs
Publication history
Rights or licensing information
And much more…
Publication status
erratum

corrigendum

correction

withdrawal

retraction

new edition

expression of concern

partial retraction

removal

addendum

clarification
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What constitutes a status update?

A change significant enough to affect the
crediting or interpretation of the work
Allowed status update types
addendum
clarification
correction
corrigendum
erratum
expression_of_concern
new_edition
new_version
partial_retraction
removal
retraction
withdrawal
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Machine access
Crossref REST API
http://api.crossref.org
Reference lists
cite with
certainty
Online reading environments
• Crossmark button on publisher
copy of PDF
• Opportunities: ReadCube, Papers,
Utopia, Mendeley, etc.
• Enhance the PDF and display
publication update notification
• Notify users across all the
channels available
Crossmark Best Practices
• Comprehensive deposit of publisher metadata
• Proper display of Crossmark button above or close to the
title of the article
• Timely deposits of publication updates
Current content: 20¢
Backfile content: 2¢
Current Content = published in the past two years.
If you already participate
Upgrade to v2.0!
• New design buttons
• Mobile-friendly, responsive pop up box
• Widely-compatible code (no js)
• v1.5 no longer supported (March 2017)
How?
• Replace snippet of code in your landing pages with 2.0 code
from https://www.crossref.org/get-started/crossmark/
• Choose shape and size of button from Crossref CDN
• http://crossmark.crossref.org/widget/v2.0/readme.html
Latest numbers
• 5.4 million Crossmark deposits
• 490 publishers
• 57,000 status updates
• 1,860 retractions
• 51,000 corrections
• 3.1 million DOIs with additional metadata
Thank you
kmeddings@crossref.org
www.crossref.org/services/crossmark/

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