Crossref allows registration of a variety of scholarly works including journals, books, book chapters, conference proceedings, datasets, dissertations, reports, standards, preprints, and peer reviews. Members can register metadata such as author names, titles, identifiers, reference lists, and funding data. It is important for members to maintain and deposit good quality metadata so readers can always find and access registered content through tools like DOIs and the Crossref search site. Crossref shares metadata with partners to enhance discovery, indexing, and inclusion in citation metrics and discovery services.

1. Content
registration
at Crossref

4. Journals
Books
Book chapters
Conference proceedings
Datasets
Dissertations
Reports
Standards
Posted content (preprints)
Peer reviews
… and other stuff
What can I register?

5. metadata
everything, including…
author names, ORCIDs, affiliations, article titles,
ISSN, ISBN, pages, issue #, volume #s, dates,
identifiers

6. more metadata
such as …
reference lists, funding data, ORCIDs, license data, clinical trial
numbers, errata, retractions, updates and more through our
Crossmark service, JATS-formatted abstracts, relationships
between items…

7. Important to maintain your registered content
• Important to know how to work with the content you
register with Crossref
• So that readers can always find, and use the content
you publish

8. User clicks on a DOI in
the reference list in
Journal A
Crossref returns
URL where that
content is located
User accesses cited article in
Journal B

9. Members also register other
bibliographic material to
uniquely identify their content
- this metadata is as
important as the DOI itself

10. Important to deposit good quality metadata
https://search.crossref.org/

11. Tools to help:
Metadata Manager
(coming soon)

13. Presenter Name
Presenter Title
@twittername

15. Tools to help:
Participation Reports
(coming soon)

18. Metadata Out

19. Using metadata
• Search and indexing services
• On Crossref site
• On partner sites (e.g. ORCID)
• Enhanced Crossref metadata services
• Organizations that want to supplement metadata from other sources
• Organizations providing citation metrics
• Document delivery providers
• Discovery services
• Search engines
• Content aggregators

20. Sharing metadata - benefits
• Greater discovery of your content
• Inclusion in discovery services
• Only your metadata is shared – not your full text!

21. Thank you