The document discusses the usage of CrossRef metadata in research, emphasizing its contribution to author profiling and tracking funding. It highlights the importance of comprehensive metadata, including titles, author details, and licensing information, for effective research management. Future plans for CrossRef include enhancing metadata quality and expanding elements available for members.

1. Participation
Reports Anna Tolwinska
September 2018

3. What do people
do with Crossref
metadata?

5. author profiling tools

6. Members —> Crossref
Basic metadata: titles; author names; ISSNs/
ISBNs, publication dates, etc
but also…
References
Funding information
License information
Full-text URLs
Significant updates, retractions, corrections
ORCID iDs

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

13. funders and funding tracking tools

15. Where is the full text?
What can I do with it?
Is it in the iThenticate database?

16. “We would love to see rights-
declaration metadata. This is
invaluable to know whether it’s public
domain or copyrighted, and any
constraints for use.”
Cynthia Hudson-Vitale,
Digital data librarian in Research Data and GIS Services at
Washington University in St. Louis Libraries and
visiting program office for SHARE

19. www.crossref.org/participation

20. Beta phase
In production as of June 2018
Open to all, looking for feedback
Future plans include
- more metadata elements
- metadata quality checks
- adherence to Crossref best practice

21. Crossref metadata helps research
to be found, cited, linked-to,
assessed, and re-used

22. Thank you!