1-Introduction to CrossRef
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The document summarizes a CrossRef workshop held in Gauteng, South Africa in September 2015. It introduced CrossRef and its role in managing digital object identifiers (DOIs) to uniquely identify scholarly works, enabling linking between references and cited works. It outlined CrossRef's history and services, including DOI registration and metadata deposit, and encouraging long-term archiving of scholarly works. The document also reviewed CrossRef participation benefits and growing statistics on registered DOIs and annual clicks to publisher sites.
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1-Introduction to CrossRef
- 1. CrossRef Workshop, Gauteng, South Africa, September 2015 1 1 WhatsThePointSA “Namaqualand Springbok” CrossRef ! Gauteng, September 2015 Introduction
- 2. CrossRef Workshop, Gauteng, South Africa, September 2015 2 Today - Introduction to CrossRef - Managing Errata & Retractions - Screening for Plagiarism - How (+ why) to Acknowledge Funding Sources - Metadata Management + Refs & Cited-by Linking - Text & Data Mining - CrossRef Labs & Ideas for the Future 3 Two Offices! Lynnfield, MA, USA! Oxford, UK 4
- 3. CrossRef Workshop, Gauteng, South Africa, September 2015 3 5 Where We Started - Not-for profit: PILA in 1999 then CrossRef in 2000 - Set up by publishers to enable reliable reference linking. - Bringing together publishers and their data for the benefit of the whole community. - 16-member international board of directors from membership 6
- 4. CrossRef Workshop, Gauteng, South Africa, September 2015 4 What We Do - Network for Scholarly Community - Run services publishers cannot do individually - Facilitator for industry technical innovation - Extended to include other data and services that address the status and relationships of and between scholarly works of all kinds. - Engage many types of organizations: Publishers and “non-publisher” publishers; Commercial and non-profits; OA & Subscription; Funders; Researchers; Libraries 7 MISSION Improving scholarly communication through community collaboration 8
- 5. CrossRef Workshop, Gauteng, South Africa, September 2015 5 CrossRef DOIs uniquely identify content 9 What is a DOI ? • = Digital Object Identifier • Unique • Actionable • Digital identifier for content • Trademark of the International DOI Foundation (IDF) • ANSI/NISO Standard Z39.84-2005 (R2010) • ISO Standard 26324:2012 10
- 6. CrossRef Workshop, Gauteng, South Africa, September 2015 6 The organization of DOI registration 11 International DOI Foundation (IDF): oversees the central DOI system, promotes the DOI as a standard, and provides an organizational infrastructure that ensures persistence and interoperability. Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI): they (among other things) are responsible for the Handle system, which is the technology that causes DOIs to resolve to the registered URL Registration Agencies (RAs): Register DOIs on behalf of other organizations. CrossRef is a RA. Registration Agencies • Airiti • CrossRef • China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) • DataCite • Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) • The Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) • Japan Link Center (JaLC) • Multilingual European DOI Registration Agency (mEDRA) • Publications Office of the European Union (OP) Different registration agencies provide different services They all provide the basic DOI linkage service
- 7. CrossRef Workshop, Gauteng, South Africa, September 2015 7 Deposit DOIs and metadata • Basic citation metadata: – author(s) – journal title – article title – volume – Issue – page numbers – publication date – book title – chapter title • Optional metadata, e.g. – references – funder information – ORCIDs – CrossMark publication record metadata – Abstracts – (more about this later) 13 CrossRef Isn’t Just for Journals 14 Components are parts of an article (e.g. Figures, tables) which are allocated their own DOI
- 8. CrossRef Workshop, Gauteng, South Africa, September 2015 8 Books & components, fastest growing 15 Statistics 16 Sta$s$cs, August 2015 Total number parLcipaLng publishers 5,421 Number of journals covered 41,616 Number of DOIs registered 75,311,725 Number of DOIs deposited last month 209,045 DOI resoluLons (end-‐user-‐clicks) last month 124,765,975
- 9. CrossRef Workshop, Gauteng, South Africa, September 2015 9 We generate well over a billion annual ‘clicks’ to publishers’ sites 17 0 350,000,000 700,000,000 1,050,000,000 1,400,000,000 1,750,000,000 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Annual CrossRef DOI Resolu$ons Some obligations 1. Add outbound reference links 2. Deposit all current journal articles 3. Resolve CrossRef DOI conflicts 4. Update metadata, especially URLs 5. Do not publicize CrossRef DOIs until links are live 6. Do not use identifiers that look like DOIs but are not registered anywhere 7. Make plans for long-term archiving 18
- 10. CrossRef Workshop, Gauteng, South Africa, September 2015 10 Please ensure long-term archiving CLOCKSS http://clockss.org Portico http://www.portico.org Koninklijke Bibliotheek National Library of the Netherlands: http://www.kb.nl/ 19 Who qualifies? • Any publisher of all kinds of scholarly works • Any business model (OA, subscription, free) • Any org type e.g. 70% members non-profit • Any language • Any size (one-person operations) • Any level of technical know-how 20
- 11. CrossRef Workshop, Gauteng, South Africa, September 2015 11 Why participate in CrossRef • To plug into the network • To get persistent identifiers for content • To drive traffic to content • To turn references into hyperlinks • To participate in other collaborative services • Or… to get data out, such as – CrossRef API, Metadata Search, Simple Text Query 21 [email protected] [email protected] slideshare.net/CrossRef youtube.com/CrossRefNews @CrossRefSupport @CrossRefOrg linkedin.com/company/crossref crossref.org/annualmeeting crossref.org/01company/11conferences.html *Icons from The Noun Project CreaLve Commons* 22 facebook.com/CrossRef crossref.org/CrossTech crossref.org/crweblog support.crossref.org