Introduction to CrossRef for Researchers

CrossRef Services for
Readers, Researchers
and Authors

Not-for-profit membership association of
global scholarly publishers

From roadblock…to
Easy, reliable
navigation

Digital
Object
Identifier
What is a DOI?

It uniquely
identifies
content

It serves as a stable link to that
content’s digital location

What’s in a name?
http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/june2001.ia
nella
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smj.376
http://dx.doi.org/10.1265/ehpm.8.18
4
http://dx.doi.org/10.12345/abc

14
Now let’s make it actionable in a
browser…

http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jmpi.1995.0238

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International DOI Foundation
•Oversees central DOI System
•Promotes DOI as a standard
•Provides organizational infrastructure that
ensures persistence and interoperability

Current IDF
Registration Agencies

is the largest
Registration Agency

Why CrossRef DOIs
are Different from
Other DOIs

• Applications for scholarly
communications
• Develops and maintains
the DOI standard
• Develops and maintains the
Handle system upon which
the DOI executes
CrossRef/DOI Community

Services
•CrossRef Reference Linking
•CrossRef Cited-By Linking
•CrossRef CrossMark
Update Identification
•CrossRef CrossRef FundRef
Funding Information
•CrossRef Metadata Search
•CrossRef Labs Tools
•CrossRef CrossCheck
Plagiarism Screening
•CrossRef Metadata Services
Bibliographic data to help you
discover content
Powered by
iThenticate

CrossRef has 1900
members, representing 4627 publishers

We have two offices:
Lynnfield, MA and
Oxford, UK

We have 24 employees (22.5 FTE)

8.2 mil
6.4 mil
Books growing rapidly

Almost 1.5 million data
items/figures/components have
CrossRef DOIs
•Protein Data Bank
•Standards in Genomic Science
•Organization for Economic Development (OECD)
•Public Library of Science
•International Union of Crystallography (IUCR)

Linking 5 centuries of content
Century # of DOIs deposited
17th 1,686
18th 4,200
19th 651,584
20th 20,804,031
21st 13,703,134
166
5

• 389 CrossRef Member
Publishers participate
• 386 million CrossRef Cited-By
links
• 27 million documents have
CrossRef Cited-By links
• 21 million CrossRef records have
references

We provide CrossRef Cited-By Links
for Publishers to Display

CrossRef Metadata Services Affiliates
•ACADEMIC ANALYTICS, LLC
•ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER
•ALTMETRIC
•BIOINFOBANK INSTITUTE
•CAMBIA
•COPYRIGHT CLEARANCE CENTER (CCC)
•DIALOG
•DEEPDYVE
•EASYBIB.COM
•EPISTEMIO, LTD.
•EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE (EMBL)
•EX LIBRIS LTD.
•HINDAWI
•INFORMASCOPE
•KISTI
•LABTIVA
•MENDELEY
•MESUR
•NASA ADS
•OCLC
•ONTARIO COUNCIL OF UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES (OCUL)
•PLUM ANALYTICS
See more at: http://www.crossref.org/01company/08affiliates.html#cms_affiliates

Additional Metadata Available
•ORCIDs
•CrossRef FundRef Funder Data
•Article Level Open Access Indicators (planned)
•CrossRef CrossMark Update Information
•CrossRef CrossMark Publication Record Metadata
–Peer Review Information
–Publication History
–Threaded Publications
–License Information
–CrossCheck Screening Status

(http://tiny.cc/ALM1)
CrossRef DOIs support article-level
metrics

Microsoft Academic Search displays
CrossMark logo

Open Access Indicators
• Article level OA indicators will support
discovery of OA content in hybrid journals.
• They can be displayed in CrossRef’s
CrossMark

What CrossRef services help
researchers/scientists/engineers/readers/j
ournalists?
•CrossRef Metadata Search search.crossref.org
•FundRef Search search.crossref.org/fundref
•ORCID Integration orcid.org
•DOI Shortener shortdoi.org
•CrossRef Citation Formatter http://crosscite.org/citeproc/
•CrossRef Simple Text Query
www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery/
•CrossMark http://crossref.org/crossmark
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http://www.crossref.org/08downloads/handouts/library_researcher.pdf

ournalists?
54

http://search.crossref.org/fundref

ournalists?
58

ournalists?
60

Integratio
n
http://orcid.org/

ournalists?
63

http://labs.crossref.org/
 Citation formatter for different style guides
http://crosscite.org/citeproc/

ournalists?
65

Simple Text
Query
http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery/

ournalists?
67

“The Web is by nature an interactive environment, yet
online journals are mostly static, befitting their traditional
role as a never-changing scholarly record.”

When content changes, readers
need to know

Nature 478, 26-28 (2011) Science publishing: The trouble with retractions
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/478026a

http://dx.doi.org/10.3163/2F1536-
5050.100.3.008

errata
corrigenda
updates
enhancements
withdrawals
retractions
new editions
protocol updates
notices of concern, etc.

Version of Record
Enhanced VoR
Corrected VoR
http://www.niso.org/publications/rp/RP-8-2008.pdf

How Does a Researcher Know
What to Trust?

A Little Quiz:
Does this article have corrections?

Does this article have corrections?

Lack of awareness of corrections
or updates particularly problematic
in medicine and related fields.

A logo that identifies a publisher-maintained
copy of a piece of content
Clicking the logo tells you
• Whether there have been any updates
• If this instance is being maintained by the
publisher
• Where the publisher-maintained version is
• Other important publication record information
What is CrossMark?

What kind of Publication Record
information could be available?
Funding disclosures
Conflict of interest statements
Publication history (submission, revision and accepted
dates)
Location of data deposits or registries
Peer review process used
CrossCheck plagiarism screening
License types
and more...

Amsterdam University Press F1000 Research*
Scholar Science Journals AIP*
The Rockefeller University Press Elsevier*
World Bank
Turkish Online Journal of Design,
Art and Communication (TOJDAC)
International Union of
Crystallography (IUCr)*
Bioscientifica
Science Reviews 2000 Ltd Michael Joanna Publishers
Vilnius Gediminas Technical
University (VGTU)*
M2 Communications*
Philippine Association of
Institutions for Research (PAIR)
American Diabetes Association
Cambridge University Press The Royal Society*
Mednet Royal Society of Chemistry
Philosophy Documentation
Centre*
International Engineering Journal
John Wiley & Sons* BMJ Journals*
Riga Technical University
Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences
Medical University of Lublin The Korean Physical Society
http://www.crossref.org/crossmark/AboutParticipatingPub
s.htm

http://crossref.org/crossm
ark

• Almost a half million CrossMark
deposits with about 4500 updates
• Working with over 35 publishers on
CrossMark implementation

What do Researchers
have to do?

1. CrossMark Policy Page
Explains CrossMark, commitment to maintain the content
Explain publisher policies on corrections, retractions, etc.
Define any fields for the Publication Record Tab
Has a CrossRef DOI for persistent linking

5. Viewing the CrossMark
Logo
On HTML article landing
pages
In PDF articles

What is the recommended format
for displaying CrossRef DOIs?
http://dx.doi.org/10.5703/12882843l4959
f.
More Information:
http://www.crossref.org/02publishers/doi_display_guidelines.html

What’s in it for
publishers?

Thank you!
cmeyer@crossref.org

cmeyer@crossref.org
http://www.crossref.org/05researchers/index.html

Introduction to CrossRef for Researchers

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