Vanessa Fairhurst talks about the reach of Crossref metadata and what it is used for at Crossref LIVE local events in Pretoria and Cape Town. 17th and 19th April 2018.

1. Using metadata:
who, how and why

3. Members —> Crossref
Basic metadata: titles; author names; ISSNs/
ISBNs, abstracts, references
Funding Information, Funder identifiers,
award numbers
License Information, License URIs
Full-text URIs (used in TDM)
Significant updates, retractions, corrections
ORCID iDs
Peer Review reports, relations
Soon… Organization IDs, etc…

4. What do people
do with Crossref
metadata?

6. Crossref REST API
• Search, filter or sample metadata from thousands of members
• Returns results in JSON
• The information is continually updated
• The REST API helps unlock the value metadata; making it available to query
easily and to integrate into other tools and services
• No sign-up is required and the data can be treated as facts from members.
Therefore it is not subject to copyright and available to use for whatever purpose
• Simplifies access for researchers who want to mine and analyze research outputs
and content

7. Introducing Metadata API Plus
REST API
Output in JSON
New in 2018
● Notifications
● Metadata ‘snapshots’
● Metadata normalized
across interfaces
● Priority support
● Guaranteed uptime
● Higher rate limit
OAI-PMH
Output in XML

11. funders and funding tracking tools

13. author profiling tools

14. A collaborative writing tool
Built a tool based on
Crossref metadata to allow
authors to search and cite
without leaving the editor.

15. A free open dataset built on the Centre for Open
Science (COS) technology
Integrates Crossref metadata to join other sources
such as DataONE, 50+ library institutional
repositories.

16. “We would love to see rights-
declaration metadata. This is
invaluable to know whether it’s public
domain or copyrighted, and any
constraints for use.”
Cynthia Hudson-Vitale,
Digital data librarian in Research Data and GIS Services at
Washington University in St. Louis Libraries and
visiting program office for SHARE

18. • Find out more at https://i4oc.org
• Find out if your references are open here: https://
www.crossref.org/reports/members-with-open-references/
• Contact support@crossref.org with any queries.

19. CHORUS

20. Crossref metadata helps research
to be found, cited, linked-to,
assessed, and re-used

21. By the numbers

22. Thank you!