Explaining Crossref and Crossref services: how they can help your publications

Rachael LammeyMember & Community Outreach

@CrossrefOrg

Crossref makes research outputs easy to find, cite, link, assess, and reuse.

We’re a not-for-profit membership organization that exists to make scholarly communications better.

Mission

Crossref overview• 12,000+ members

• Metadata store of over 100 million scholarly content items (articles, books, preprints, components, data etc.)

• Persistent citation linking

• Funder identifiers

• Report and display corrections & retractions

• Check manuscripts for similarities

• Open Metadata API & Search

719 Crossref members in Russia

Why do publishers and editors use Crossref?

• To help their content get discovered

• Show people where content is located, and update that if/when it moves

• Drive more traffic to publications

• Enable persistent linking through references

• Find out who is using your content

• Participate in other collaborative services

• To contribute to the community through committees or standing/voting for board election

Content Registration• Journals• Books • Conference proceedings• Standards• Technical reports• Working Papers• Theses and dissertations• Components (figures, tables)• Datasets (supplementary data)• Databases• Preprints• Peer reviews

Not all DOIs are the sameDigital Object Identifiers (DOIs) help research link consistently. The DOI is persistent in the way that URLs are not.

However, only members of Crossref can use the tools and services that we have built on top of Crossref DOIs:

• Reference Linking• Cited-by• Similarity Check• Crossmark• Content Registration• Metadata delivery• Event Data service

Creating a powerful global network

Not just bibliographic data

• Non-descriptive information that facilitates usage:

• ORCID iDs

• License information

• Clinical trial numbers

• Archiving information

• Full-text links (indexing and TDM)

• Updates

Participation reports

• Search for a publication

• Filter by time period/content type

• Review the results

Best practice is to provide these fields as ithelps discoverability

https://www.crossref.org/members/prep/

How more metadata helps

https://search.crossref.org/funding

Metadata Manager

• A new tool to help content registration

• Helping members to deposit more, richer metadata to help their content get discovered

https://www.crossref.org/help/metadata-manager/

Getting help when you need it

• If you work with a sponsor, they can help

• If you are a direct member, email support@crossref.org

• Resources in Russian:

• Webinars: https://www.crossref.org/webinars/

• Helpdesk: https://elpub.ru/crossref

• We have new educational materials and an open community forum coming soon!

Thank you!

Спасибо!@CrossrefOrghttps://www.crossref.orgcommunity@crossref.org