An Introduction to Crossref: History, Mission, and Members

Agenda

• Introduction to Crossref• Content registration - various methods• Metadata developments• Additional Crossref services• Uses of Crossref metadata• Community initiatives

Crossref makes research outputs easy to find, cite, link, and assess. We’re a not-for-profit membership organization that exists to make scholarly communications better. We rally the community; tag and share metadata; run an open infrastructure; play with technology; and make tools and services—all to help put scholarly content in context.

It’s as simple—and as complicated—as that.

Our truths

• Come one, come all • One member, one vote• Smart alone, brilliant together• Love metadata, love technology• What you see, what you get• Here today, here tomorrow

Governance and Committees

• Advisory Groups and Committees• 16 member board, cross section of international

publishers• One member, one vote, including members

represented by a sponsor - each of you has a vote• Board elections each November

Board members

• Chair - Paul Peters, Hindawi• Treasurer - Scott Delmas, ACM• Jason Wilde, AIP Publishing • Helen King, BMJ• Mark Patterson, eLIFE• Chris Shillum, Elsevier• Liz Allen, F1000• Duncan Campbell, John Wiley &

Sons

• Amy Brand, MIT Press• Marin Dacos, OpenEdition• Ian Bannerman, Informa UK• Graham McCann, IOP Publishing• John Shaw, SAGE• Wim van der Stelt, Springer

Nature• Eleonora Dagiene, VGTU Press• Abel Packer, SciELO

Crossref overview

• Over 10,000 member organizations• Metadata store of over 99 million scholarly content items• A DOI is just the start - We offer a wide array of services

to ensure that scholarly research metadata is registered, linked, and distributed.

• We preserve the metadata we receive and make it available via our open APIs and Search.

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

• Publishers• Funders• Institutions• Archives & repositories• Research councils • Data centres• Professional networks • Patent offices• Indexing services

Why do publishers join Crossref?• To help get their content discovered• Show people where their content is located and

update that if/when the content moves• Drive more traffic to publications• Turn references into hyperlinks• Find out who is using their content• Participate in other collaborative services

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• Journals • Books • Conference proceedings • Standards • Technical reports • Working Papers • Theses and dissertations • Components (figures, tables) • Datasets (supplementary data) • Databases • Posted content (includes preprints) • Peer Reviews

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Components3%

Reports1%

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Conference Proceedings5%

Books16%

Journals72%

Registered Content

What are we up to?

• More in-person events

• Strengthening links with broader community

• Accelerating development

• Launching Ambassador Program

Soon

Pending Publications Event Data Metadata Manager

Thank you for joining us today!