The document discusses Crossref and the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system. It explains that a DOI prefix is assigned by Crossref and a suffix is assigned by the publisher. It also describes how to deposit metadata through Crossref, including uploading an XML file or using the web deposit form. The document notes that maintaining and depositing good quality metadata is important for readers to find and use registered content.

2. First steps
• prefix and login
• different methods to deposit metadata

3. Your 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.
10.4444
10.55555

4. Persistent identifiers
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

5. DOI suffix
• consistent
• simple
• short
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.125173
https://doi.org/10.1021/cm960127g
https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.10.12.1841
https://doi.org/10.1109/16.8842
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2001.0787
More details: https://support.crossref.org/hc/en-us/articles/214669823

6. Crossref DOI display guidelines
• Always be displayed as a full URL link
• An example of the best practice in displaying a Crossref DOI link is:
https://doi.org/10.1629/22161
• Old format was http://dx.doi.org/

7. Your landing page
• A full bibliographic citation so that the user can verify they have been
delivered to the correct item
• The DOI displayed as a URL, following display guidelines
• A way to access full text: access to full text is completely controlled by
the publisher, but the landing page must be accessible to everyone.

8. Journals and journal articles
Books and book chapters
Conference proceedings
Reports / working papers
Datasets
Dissertations
Standards
Posted content (preprints)
Peer reviews
Components (supplemental materials)
… and other stuff
What can I register?

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

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

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

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

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

14. Ways to deposit metadata
• Upload XML file (https://doi.crossref.org)
• The manual web deposit form
(https://apps.crossref.org/webdeposit)
• OJS Crossref plugin
• The new Metadata Manager (coming soon!)

15. Create XML
Crossref Schema
Metadata deposit schema: for everything
Metadata deposit schema 4.4.1 (documentation)
Resource schema: for adding most non-bibliographic
metadata to existing records
doi_resources4.3.6.xsd (documentation)

16. Web deposit form

17. Via OJS

18. metadata
record
funding
data
bad data
@#&$*@ citations
Submission queue
All content registration
submissions are added to the
same queue
Most are processed quickly
but if not, you can view your
spot in the queue

19. Success! Your content now has
persistent identifiers and a Crossref
metadata record
???????
hooray!
Failure…your content has not been
registered.

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

22. Presenter Name
Presenter Title
@twittername

24. Tools to help:
Participation Reports

25. Benefits for Members Benefits for the Public
• Easily find out what
metadata they register
• See what metadata
members register
• See what their competition
is doing
• See their progress over
time
• See how they can improve
and be the best that they
can be
• Understand the quality of
members' metadata and
find out what needs to be
improved
• Generally leave being in the
dark behind
• See what their competition
is doing

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

33. Thank you