Vanessa Fairhurst gives an introduction and overview of Crossref at the Crossref LIVE local events in Pretoria and Cape Town, South Africa. 17th and 19th April 2018.

1. #CrossrefSA

2. 09:30 – 10:00 Welcome and overview of Crossref
10:00 – 10:45 Content registration with Crossref
10:45 – 11:15 Break
11:15 – 11:35 Crossref metadata - what can be collected and how it can be used - why good metadata is important
11:35 – 11:50 Organisational IDs
11:50 – 12:15 New metadata developments
12:15 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 13:30 Updates from ORCID
13:30 – 14:30 Introduction to Crossref services:
Reference linking & Cited-by
Funding data
Crossmark
Similarity Check
Event Data
14:30 – 15:00 Guest speaker
15:00 – 15:30 Community Initiatives
15.30 – 16.00 Close & thanks
16:00 – 17:30 Hands-on practical implementation session

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 95 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
M
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ber
Sponsored
O
rganization
Sponsoring
O
rganization
Sponsored
M
em
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M
em
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(Publishers)
Libraries
62
1044
715
824

14. >95,000,000
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
Pending Publications
Event Data
Participation reports
Peer Review Reports
Metadata Manager

20. Thank you for
joining us today!