This document provides information about registering metadata with Crossref, including: 1. Crossref assigns members a prefix and login to begin the registration process. Members can register metadata for various types of scholarly content. 2. Metadata should include important details about publications like author names, article titles, publication dates, and assigned DOIs to improve discovery of content. 3. Members can deposit metadata by uploading an XML file, using a web form, or integrating with their publishing systems. High quality, accurate metadata benefits discovery for both members and the public.

3. First steps
1. We send you a prefix and login
2. Review different methods for registering your metadata

4. 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.
10.444410.55555

5. Your prefix ≠ your content
- It means you created a DOI
- It does not mean you are the current content owner
DOIs move from member to member all the time!

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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/

9. 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, per 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.

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

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

12. more metadata
such as …
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…

13. 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

14. 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)

15. <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

16. <journal_article publication_type='full_text’>
<titles>
<title>Let’s have a meeting</title>
</titles>
<contributors>
<person_name sequence='first' contributor_role='author'>
<given_name>Bob</given_name>
<surname>Surname</surname>
</person_name>
<publication_date media_type='print'>
<month>5</month>
<day>9</day>
<year>2001</year>
</publication_date>
<pages>
<first_page>100</first_page>
<last_page>200</last_page>
</pages>
<doi_data>
<doi>10.50505/test_200704082300</doi>
<resource>http://www.crossref.org/sampleurl</resource>
</doi_data>
article title: Let’s have a
meeting
author: Bob Surname
pages: 100-200
DOI: 10.50505/test_2007

17. Web deposit form

18. Via OJS

19. 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

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

21. New tools to help:
Metadata Manager

22. https://www.crossref.org/metadatamanager/

27. Metadata quality is as
important as metadata

28. • Funding: funder identifier, grant number
• License: URL and date, free to read?
• Related items: connect to reviews, preprints, data
• ORCID iDs: identify authors
• Abstracts
• Updates via Crossmark

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

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

31. Viewing your metadata
Crossref Metadata Search
http://search.crossref.org

32. Where does it all go?
Funders, Institutions, Archives & repositories, Research
councils, Data centers, Professional networks, Patent
offices, Indexing services, Publishing vendors, Peer review
systems, Reference manager systems, Lab & diagnostics
suppliers, Info management systems, Educational tools,
Data analytics systems, Literature discovery services…

33. Tools to help:
Participation Reports

34. 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

40. • https://www.crossref.org/participation/
• https://www.crossref.org/members/prep/

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

42. Thank you