Crossref is an organization that helps publishers join together and register Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for their published content. DOIs provide stable links to content and help with discoverability, tracking usage, and building connections between related research. When publishers join Crossref, they deposit metadata that includes DOIs for their articles, books and other materials. This allows their content to be found more easily and for references to be linked between publications. Crossref recommends that publishers display DOIs prominently and deposit reference lists to take full advantage of the network and services it provides.

1. Crossref Basics
Susan Collins
Vegetarian ultra-running membership guru!
scollins@crossref.org

2. Why do publishers join Crossref?
• To help your content get discovered!
• Show people where your 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 your content
• Participate in other collaborative services
• Collaborative Community!

3. The DOI
• Digital Object Identifier
• Solves link rot (broken links)
• Uniquely identifies a piece of content
• Actionable
• Trademark of the International DOI
Foundation (IDF)
• ANSI/NISO Standard Z39.84-2005 (R2010)
• ISO Standard 26324:2012

4. Crossref isn’t the only DOI Registration Agency

5. How many DOIs?

6. • Total records in Crossref database - 81,724,730
• Journal articles: 62,091,211
• Books: 10,768,913
• Conference proceedings: 4,469,114
• Members also register standards, components,
datasets
• References, cited-by data

7. What do publishers need to do?
• Deposit rich, high-quality metadata with Crossref in
order to register DOIs

8. What do publishers need to do?
• Display DOIs on article landing pages

9. Display Guidelines
http://www.crossref.org/02publishers/doi_display_guidelines.html
• Crossref recommends that Crossref DOIs also be displayed or distributed in
the following contexts:
• Tables of contents
• Abstracts
• Full text HTML and PDF articles and other scholarly documents
• Citation downloads to reference management systems
• Metadata feeds to third parties
• “How to Cite This” instructions on content pages
• Social networking links
• Anywhere users are directed to a permanent, stable, or persistent link to the
content
• top of page near bibliographic metadata

10. What do publishers need to do?
• Link references using the DOI

11. So you’ve done the basics, what next?
• Don’t just link references, deposit them!
• Participate in cited-by linking
• Let authors and readers see who’s citing the
content and building on the research
• Discoverability: linking readers to other related
content
• Add richer metadata, funding, Orcid, retractions, etc.
• Add CrossMark to display these metadata

13. Metadata
& PIDs
enable
connections

14. Questions?