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1. Introduction to Crossref
Crossref is a not-for-profit organization with over 10,000 member organizations that registers, links, and distributes metadata for scholarly research outputs. It maintains a database of over 99 million content items, including journals, books, conference proceedings, and other materials. Crossref provides services to help publishers, reference managers, and other groups discover, cite, and assess scholarly research. Members join Crossref to help discover and track where their content is located online and to participate in collaborative initiatives around metadata and technology.
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- 1. An Introduction toCrossref: History, Mission, and Members
- 2. Agenda • Introduction toCrossref • Content registration - various methods • Metadata developments • Additional Crossref services • Uses of Crossref metadata • Community initiatives
- 3. Crossref makes researchoutputs easy to find, cite, link, and assess. We’re a not-for-profit membership organization that exists to make scholarly communications better. We rally the community; tag and share metadata; run an open infrastructure; play with technology; and make tools and services—all to help put scholarly content in context. It’s as simple—and as complicated—as that.
- 4. Our truths • Comeone, come all • One member, one vote • Smart alone, brilliant together • Love metadata, love technology • What you see, what you get • Here today, here tomorrow
- 6. Governance and Committees •Advisory Groups and Committees • 16 member board, cross section of international publishers • One member, one vote, including members represented by a sponsor - each of you has a vote • Board elections each November
- 7. Board members • Chair- Paul Peters, Hindawi • Treasurer - Scott Delmas, ACM • Jason Wilde, AIP Publishing • Helen King, BMJ • Mark Patterson, eLIFE • Chris Shillum, Elsevier • Liz Allen, F1000 • Duncan Campbell, John Wiley & Sons • Amy Brand, MIT Press • Marin Dacos, OpenEdition • Ian Bannerman, Informa UK • Graham McCann, IOP Publishing • John Shaw, SAGE • Wim van der Stelt, Springer Nature • Eleonora Dagiene, VGTU Press • Abel Packer, SciELO
- 8. Crossref overview • Over10,000 member organizations • Metadata store of over 99 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.
- 9. Who uses Crossref? •Publishing vendors • Peer review systems • Reference manager systems • Lab & diagnostics suppliers • Info management systems • Educational tools • Data analytics systems • Literature discovery services • Registration Agencies • Publishers • Funders • Institutions • Archives & repositories • Research councils • Data centres • Professional networks • Patent offices • Indexing services
- 10. Why do publishersjoin 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
- 11. Crossref Members andAffiliates by Year 0 500 1000 1500 2000
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- 13. New Members 2017 0 300 600 900 1200Sponsoring M em ber Sponsored O rganization Sponsoring O rganization Sponsored M em ber M em bers (Publishers) Libraries 62 1044 715 824
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- 16. • 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
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- 18. What are weup to? • More in-person events • Strengthening links with broader community • Accelerating development • Launching Ambassador Program
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- 21. Thank you for joiningus today!