Basics for New Members and Individuals New to CrossRef
•9:00-10:00 Boot Camp: An Introduction to CrossRef
•10:00-10:20 Cited-by Linking
•10:20-10:40 CrossCheck
Boot CampAn Introduction to
Carol Anne MeyerPatricia FeeneyAnna Tolwinska
CrossRef Workshops15 November 2011
Cambridge, MA
This Morning
•Business Overview
–Carol Meyer
•Technical Overview
–Patricia Feeney
•Resources for Small Publishers
–Anna Tolwinska
Business Overview
•Why publishers join CrossRef
•What is a DOI?
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Why publishers join CrossRef
• To get persistent IDs for their content
• To drive more traffic to their content
• To turn their references into hyperlinks
• To pull in cited-by links (what cites this?)
• To participate in new collaborative services
From roadblock…toEasy, reliable navigation
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Broken links are a problem
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Digital
Object
Identifier
What is a DOI?
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It is alphanumeric a DOI?
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It uniquely identifies content
It serves as a stable link to that content’s digital location
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It looks like this:
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DOI-enabled linking
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DOI syntax
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Now let’s make it actionable in a browser…
http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jmpi.1995.0238
DOI suffixes must be
Unique within a prefix
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DOI suffixes should be
•Consistent
•Logical
•Easily documented
•Readily implemented
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DOI suffixes may be
•Opaque
•Meaningful
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http://dx.doi.org/10.xxxx/DOIsuffixgoeshere
replacesdoi:10.xxxx/DOIsuffixgoeshere
New display guidelines
More Information:http://www.crossref.org/02publishers/doi_display_guidelines.html
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International DOI Foundation
•Oversees central DOI System
•Promotes DOI as a standard
•Provides organizational infrastructure that ensures persistence and interoperability
IDF Registration Agencies (RAs)• Airiti
• DataCite
• Entertainment Identifier Registry (EDIR)
• mEDRA
• OPOCE (Office des publications EU)
• R. R. Bowker
• Wanfang Data
• CrossRef
What Does CrossRef Do?
• Provides technology infrastructure for linking
Registers DOIs with the Handle SystemProvides discoverability services for those DOIs
•Provides business infrastructure for linking
One agreement with CrossRef is a linking agreement with all CrossRef publishers
is the largest Registration Agency
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Handle-DOI-CrossRef relationship
Handlegeneral-purpose naming service
Requires customized solution
DOIorganizational structure for persistence
CrossRefprogrammatic linking and discovery service
Easy for publisher to automate
• DOIs for x-pub linking
• Develops and maintains the DOI standard
• Develops and maintains the Handle system upon which the DOI executes
CrossRef/DOI Community
Services
• Cross-publisher reference linking
• Cross-publisher Cited-by linking
• Cross-publisher metadata feeds to CMS Affiliates
• Cross-publisher plagiarism screening
• Cross-publisher update service
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Cross-publisher means…
• No need for bilateral negotiations between publishers, or between a third-party and individual publishers
Photo: Alexandra Lee
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PUBLISHERS AND SOCIETIES
3637 200,238
BOOKS
JOURNAL TITLES
25,901CONFERENCE PROCEEDING
S
21,858
50 million CrossRef DOIs!
Content beyond journals…
•Books
•Standards
•Proceedings
• Images
•Figures
•Datasets
•Working papers
•Dissertations
Linking 5 centuries of content
1665
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membership
• STM
• Humanities
• Social science
• Professional
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•Links deliver the user to the publisher’s front door. Access control is up to the publisher.
is “business-model neutral”
Photo: Tawheed Manzoor
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membership
• Represents 67 countries
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membership
• Commercial publishers
• Academic societies
• Other non-profits
• University presses
• Open access publishers
• Institutional repositories
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Participationwelcome!
Is a membership organization
Photo: James Duncan Davidson
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Stay informed: get involved
•CrossRef Annual Meeting
•CrossRef Board and Committees
•CrossRef Support Forum
•CrossRef and CrossTech blogs
•CrossRef Quarterly
•www.facebook.com/crossref
•Twitter: @CrossRefNews
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Fees: Annual MembershipAnnual Publishing Revenue Annual Fee
< $1 million $275
$1 million-$5 million $550
$5 million-$10 million $1,650
$10 million-$25 million $3,900
$25 million-$50 million $8,300
$50 million-$100 million $14,000
$100 million-$200 million $22,000
$200 million-$500 million $33,000
>$500 million $50,000
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One-Time Deposit Fees
Deposit Type Per-DOI Fee
Current records (2008-2010)
$1.00
Book chapters and reference entries ≤ 250 per title
$0.25
Book chapters and reference entries > 250 per title
$0.15
Backfiles $0.15
Components, data records $.06
Journal Titles free
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Member Obligations
• Display CrossRef DOIs on response pages
• Deposit all current journal articles
• Link out from current journal references
• Resolve CrossRef DOI conflicts
• Update metadata and especially URLs
• Do not publicize CrossRef DOIs until links are live
• Make plans for long term archiving
• Pay bills on time
• Update contact information