The document provides a comprehensive guide on content registration with Crossref, detailing the structure and importance of DOI prefixes and suffixes, as well as the types of content that can be registered. It covers methods for registering content, updating metadata, and best practices for ensuring accurate and timely content management. Additional resources for support and further information are also mentioned, including community forums and webinars.

1. Content
registration at
Crossref

2. Amanda Bartell
Head of Member Experience
Vanessa Fairhurst
Community Outreach Manager
Paul Davis
Technical Support Specialist

3. How to turn on closed captioning

4. Agenda
1. DOIs and metadata
2. Ways to register your content
3. Updating and adding extra metadata
4. Where to find further help and support
5. Q&A

5. DOIs &
Metadata

6. The structure of a Crossref DOI
https://doi.org/10.1006/jmbi.1995.0238
• The DOI directory: makes the DOI actionable on the web
• Prefix: assigned by Crossref
• Suffix: assigned by the publisher
Total DOI = routes through the DOI resolver to point to the registered URL
More details: https://www.crossref.org/education/member-setup/constructing-your-dois/

7. DOI prefix
• One prefix may be used for all content
• New titles may be added at any time
• No limit to the number of DOIs created, also no
minimum number is required.

8. DOI suffix
• consistent
• simple
• short
More details: https://www.crossref.org/documentation/member-
setup/constructing-your-dois

9. Your landing page
• A full bibliographic citation
• The DOI displayed as a URL - see
www.crossref.org/display-guidelines
• A way to access full text: access to
the full text is controlled by the
publisher, but the landing page must
be accessible to everyone.

10. basic citation metadata
author names, affiliations, article titles, ISSN, ISBN, pages,
issue #, volume #s, dates, identifiers

11. more metadata
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…

12. Important to maintain your registered content
It’s 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
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https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

13. What can I register a DOI for?
Journals
Books
Book chapters
Conference proceedings
Datasets
Dissertations
Reports
Standards
Posted content (preprints)
Peer reviews
Grants
… and more

14. Ways to
register your
content

15. • XML (https://doi.crossref.org)
• Web deposit form
(https://apps.crossref.org/webdeposit)
• OJS Crossref plugin (https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/crossref-ojs-
manual/en/config)
Methods to register your content

16. Create XML
Crossref Schema
Metadata deposit schema: for everything
Metadata deposit schema 4.4.2 (documentation)
Resource schema: for adding most non-bibliographic metadata to existing
records
doi_resources4.3.6.xsd (documentation)

17. <journal_metadata>
<full_title>International Journal of
Meetings</full_title>
<abbrev_title>Am J Meet</abbrev_title>
<issn media_type='print'>4445-6767</issn>
</journal_metadata>
<journal_issue>
<publication_date media_type='print'>
<month>5</month>
<day>5</day>
<year>2001</year>
</publication_date>
<journal_volume>
<volume>33</volume>
</journal_volume>
<issue>1</issue>
</journal_issue>
Journal title: International Journal of Meetings
ISSN: 4445-6767
Publication date: 5-5-2001
Volume: 33
Issue: 1

18. Demos

19. Web Deposit Form Demo

20. OJS
Demo

21. OJS/Crossref integrations
• automatic DOI deposit to Crossref on article publication (3.1.2);
• inclusion of other article metadata in the Crossref deposit, including author ORCID
iDs; article abstracts; and more (OJS 2.4.5);
• inclusion of FundRef funding data (OJS 3.1.2-1);
• inclusion of references (OJS 3.1.2-1);
• improved use of Crossref API (OJS 3.1.2-1);
• support for Similarity Check service;
• support for reference linking and submission (OJS 3.1.2-x)
• support for Crossref Funder registry (OJS 3.1.2-x)
• support publications/versioning for DOIs (OJS 3.2)
https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/crossref-ojs-manual/en/

22. Metadata should be…
• accurate
• complete
• up to date

23. Updating and
adding extra
metadata

24. Keeping metadata up to date
• Correct metadata errors
• Add more metadata to an existing record
• Update URLs

25. Search &
discover

26. What if something changes
• Change/correction to the metadata
• E.g. author’s name is entered incorrectly
• Change to the URL
• E.g. your publication moves to another site or you
transfer your content to another member
Do not re-assign another DOI
There is never a charge to update DOIs

27. Correcting your metadata
• Update record in OJS and redeposit
• Redeposit via the Web Deposit Form
• Resubmit metadata via XML - overwriting the old record with
new information
• For bulk URL-only changes you can send a .csv file to our
support team
*There is never a fee to update metadata

28. Transferring content/publisher
• DO NOT change the assigned DOIs
• Just update the metadata (URL)
• The new publisher is responsible for:
• Updating existing DOI metadata
• Registering new DOIs
• Receiving reports and notifications from Crossref
• The new publisher must be a member of Crossref

29. More
information and
support

30. Where can I find out more?
● Community forum: https://community.crossref.org/
● Documentation: https://www.crossref.org/education/
● Email our support, member, and billing teams
support@crossref.org, member@crossref.org
billing@crossref.org
● Webinars: https://www.crossref.org/webinars/

31. Staying up-to-date
Twitter: @crossrefOrg and @crossrefsupport
What are we thinking about: blog.crossref.org
Get in touch: feedback@crossref.org

33. Thank you!
Questions?