The document outlines a schedule for a Crossref overview event that includes sessions on content registration, metadata importance, and the benefits of Crossref services for libraries and researchers. It highlights Crossref as a not-for-profit organization that supports scholarly communications through metadata management and various technical services, with governance by an elected board. Additionally, it mentions the role of Crossref members and provides statistics on the types and amounts of scholarly content registered.

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09:30 – 10:00 Welcome and Crossref overview
10:00 – 10:30 Getting started with registering content with Crossref
10.30 - 11.00 Crossref metadata - how it can be used & why good metadata is important
11:00 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:00 The benefits of using Crossref metadata for libraries and scientists (Najko Jahn, Göttingen State and University Library)
12:00 – 12:30 How do DataCite and Crossref support research data sharing? (Britta Dreyer, Datacite)
12.30 - 12.45 Organisational Identifiers
12:45 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 15:00 Introduction to Crossref services:
Reference linking & Cited-By
Funding data
Crossmark
Similarity Check
15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 16.00 Crossref Event Data and other new services
15:45 – 16:30 Community Initiatives inc. membership trends and current projects
16.30 – 17.00 Final Q&A and close

3. Crossref makes research outputs 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
• Come one, 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
• Over 10,000 member organizations
• Metadata store of over 97 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 publishers join 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 and Affiliates by Year

12. New Members 2017
0
300
600
900
1200 Sponsoring
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Sponsored
O
rganization
Sponsoring
O
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Sponsored
M
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(Publishers)
Libraries
62
1044
715
824

14. >97,000,000
content items

15. • 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

16. Databases
2%
Components
3%
Reports
1%
Standards
1%
Conference Proceedings
5%
Books
16%
Journals
72%
Registered Content

17. What are we up to?
• Outreach & marketing teams growing
• More in-person events
• Strengthening links with broader community
• Accelerating development
• Launching Ambassador Program

19. Soon
Event Data
Participation reports
Peer Review Reports
Metadata Manager

20. Thank you for
joining us today!