An introductory session on Crossref, including information on the history, mission, members and wider community.

1. #CRLIVEMumbai

2. Agenda
11.00 - 11.15 Welcome & Opening Address
11.15 - 11.30 Introduction to Crossref (Vanessa Fairhurst, Crossref)
11.30 - 12.15 Content Registration at Crossref, including the new Metadata Manager tool (Patricia
Feeney, Crossref)
12.15 - 13.00 Using Crossref services (Vanessa Fairhurst, Crossref)
13:00 - 14.00. Lunch
14.00 - 16.00 Workshop: Helping journals and publishers get closer to authors (Editage)
16.00 - 16.30 The importance of research integrity (guest speaker)
16.30 - 17.00. Coffee table discussion and close

3. Patricia Feeney
Head of Metadata
Vanessa Fairhurst
Community Outreach Manager

4. Crossref makes research outputs easy to find, cite,
link, assess, and reuse.
We’re a not-for-profit membership organization that
exists to make scholarly communications better.
Mission

5. Our truths

7. Governance and Committees
• Advisory Groups and Committees
• 16 member board, cross section of international
publishers
• One member, one vote, including members
represented by a sponsoring organization - each of
you has a vote
• Board elections each November

8. Board members
• Chair - Paul Peters, Hindawi
• Treasurer - Scott Delman, ACM
• Jason Wilde, AIP Publishing
• Helen King, BMJ
• Mark Patterson, eLIFE
• Chris Shillum, Elsevier
• Liz Allen, F1000
• Susan Murray, African Journals
OnLine
• Amy Brand, MIT Press
• Marin Dacos, OpenEdition
• Jasper Simons, American
Psychological Association
• Graham McCann, IOP Publishing
• Catherine Mitchell, California
Digital Library
• Wim van der Stelt, Springer
Nature
• Abel Packer, SciELO
• TBD, Vilnius Gediminas
Technical University

9. Crossref overview
• Over 11,000 member organizations
• Metadata store of over 100 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.

11. 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

12. Crossref Members by Year

13. Our Member Types

14. New Members 2018 (so far)
0
300
600
900
1200 Sponsoring
M
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ber
Sponsored
O
rganization
Sponsoring
O
rganization
Sponsored
M
em
ber
M
em
bers
(Publishers)
M
etadata
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ser
56
884
1161
13
220
14

16. >100,000,000
content items

17. • 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

18. 2%
3%
1%1%
5%
16%
72%
Journals Books
Conference Proceedings Standards
Reports Dissertations
Components Databases
Registered Content

19. What are we up to?
• More in-person events
• Strengthening links with broader community
• Accelerating development
• Ambassador Program

21. Thank you for
joining us today!