Introduction to Crossref: History, Mission, Members

Introduction to Crossref: HistoryMissionMembers

Agenda1.(0915 – 0945) - Introduction to Crossref 2.(0945 – 1100) - Good Practice Publishing 3.(1100 – 1200) - Crossref & DOIs/Metadata 4.(1200 – 1300) - Lunch5.(1300 – 1330) - Content on Multiple Sites: Multiple Resolution and

Relations 6.(1330 – 1400) - Text & Data Mining (TDM)7.(1400 - 1430) - Similarity Check8.(1430 – 1500) - CrossMark9.(1500 – 1520) - Break10. (1520 – 1540) - Using Metadata11. (1540 – 1600) - Cited-by linking12. (1600 – 1620) - Funding data 13. (1620 – 1645)- Administrative Matters and Support

Our truths

• Smart alone, brilliant together• If you publish, you’re a publisher•One member, one vote• Love metadata, love technology• Politic, not political•Here today, here tomorrow

About us

• Founded in 2000 with 12 publishers•Not for profit membership organization• 30 staff based in Oxford, UK and Boston, USA• outreach, tech, development, product, operations

• Publishers, libraries, sponsors, affiliated organizations, researchers, all use our services.

Governance and Committees

• 16 member board, cross section of international publishers• one member, one vote, including publishers represented by a sponsor - each of you has a vote • Board elections each November• Advisory Groups and Committees

Board membersChair - Bernard Rous, ACMTreasurer - Gerry Grenier, IEEEJason Wilde, AIP Publishing Jasper Simons, APAHelen King, BMJMark Patterson, eLIFEChris Shillum, ElsevierPaul Peters, Hindawi

Ian Banerman, Informa UK

James Walker, IOP PublishingJohn Shaw, SAGEWim van der Stelt, Springer NatureEleonora Dagiene, VGTU PressEric Merkel-Sobotta, Walter de GruyterPeter Marney, John Wiley & SonsHelen Zhang, Zhejiang University Press

Crossref overview

• 5500 publisher members• Metadata store of over 85 million scholarly

content items• Persistent citation linking• Funder identifiers• Report and display corrections & retractions• Check manuscripts for similarities• Open Metadata API & Search

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

• Funders• Institutions• Archives & repositories• Research councils • Data centres• Professional networks • Patent offices• Indexing services

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Crossref Members and Affiliates by Year

2000 - 2016

Sponsors Affiliates Libs Sponsored Pubs

Pubs Rep Members0

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4 762 65

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New Members YTD 2016

Brazil; 578 In-donesia; 176

Russia ; 327

So. Korea; 1467

India; 252

Japan; 853

Turkey; 513

Crossref Membership excluding US and Europe

85,000,000 content items

• Journals• Books • Conference proceedings• Standards• Technical reports• Working Papers• Theses and dissertations• Components (figures, tables)• Datasets (supplementary data)• Databases• Posted content (includes preprints)

What are we up to?

• We rebranded• Outreach & marketing teams established• More in-person events• Strengthening links with broader community• Accelerating development• Building new website• Launched new help website

New

Linked Clinical TrialsCrossMark redesignORCID Auto-UpdatePosted content

Soon

Early Content RegistrationEvent DataNew website Participation reports

Thank you for joining us today