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***THIS IS AN IMPORTANT COMMUNICATION THAT WE ASK ALL CROSSREF MEMBER BUSINESS CONTACTS TO READ IN ITS ENTIRETY***

We are very pleased to announce the beta launch of CrossRef Web Services.
CrossRef Web Services (CWS) is a suite of tools to enable authorized search and other web service partners to collect metadata on a cross-publisher basis to streamline web crawling. The program includes a variety of metadata dissemination tools and provides standard terms of use for search engines, libraries, and other partners to use the metadata available from CrossRef Web Services. CrossRef members are not obligated to participate.

This initial beta launch of CWS is for partnerships with authorized search providers only. The CrossRef Board approved the terms and conditions of the CWS Authorized Search Partner Agreement in May of this year. CrossRef expects one or two search partners to sign the agreement in 2006. When a CWS partnership is executed, CrossRef members will be sent the executed agreement for review, along with a case-by-case opt out form, with clear instructions not to return the form unless they wish to opt out of that particular partnership, or to exclude references or specific titles from their available metadata. Publishers will have 30 days to respond but will always have the right to exclude their data at any time for any reason.

Authorized CWS search partners will be charged $2,500-60,000 per year depending upon the gross revenues of the partner and the number of CrossRef members who agree (by not opting out) to have their metadata included in the service. To view the fee table and CWS Authorized Search Partner agreement, you may go to:
http://www.crossref.org/04intermediaries/web_services_fees.html. In addition to the case-by-case opt out, CrossRef members can select not to participate in CrossRef Web Services at all and thereby receive no further communications regarding CWS partnerships in future.

If you expect to participate and wish to be notified of new CWS partnerships as they are negotiated, you do not need to do anything in response to this announcement. ONLY IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO OPT OUT OF *ALL* CWS PARTICIPATION, PLEASE SIGN THE GLOBAL OPT OUT FORM ( which you can request from Amy Brand abrand@crossref.org) AND RETURN VIA FAX TO 781-295-0077 AT YOUR EARLIEST CONVENIENCE.

Please contact Amy Brand at abrand@crossref.org with any questions, concerns, or comments you may have about the new program or about these procedures.

Thank you,
CrossRef Staff

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 11:16 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The latest additions to the CrossRef members' list can be viewed by clicking here
http://www.crossref.org/01company/new_members.html

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 11:12 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The latest stats on CrossRef activity have been posted at
http://www.crossref.org/01company/crossref_indicators.html

CROSSREF INDICATORS (June 30, 2006)

Total no. participating publishers & societies 1,652
% of non-profit publishers 65%
Total no. participating libraries 1,064
No. journals covered 14,768
No. DOIs registered to date 21,517,155
No. DOIs deposited in previous month 810,257
No. DOIs retrieved (matched references) in previous month 3,615,472
DOI resolutions (end-user clicks) in previous month 10,800,000

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 11:11 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Position: Metadata Quality Coordinator
Reports to: Director of Technology
Benefits: Health, dental, 401k

CrossRef, a membership association for collective scholarly publishing technologies, seeks a Metadata Quality Coordinator to maintain and improve the quality of our metadata database of bibliographic information for scholarly publications, to analyze reports, fix certain errors and report other types of errors to member publishers and track developments to make sure that problems have been fixed. The Metadata Quality Coordinator will also play a technical support role to help member publishers improve the quality of their metadata submissions. In addition, the Metadata Quality Coordinator will work with the Director of Business Development as the technical liaison with regards to metadata quality for CrossRef services and compliance with CrossRef guidelines. CrossRef has a small staff and the ability to work independently, be flexible and perform a wide variety of duties is essential.

Key Tasks

- proactively track numerous system reports on metadata quality
- proactively contact publishers to fix problems identified by system reports and to check for compliance with data submission requirements
- track outstanding issues and problem resolution
- management and normalization of journal, book and conference proceedings title lists
- provide advice and basic technical support to members regarding data quality
- produce data quality reports that will involve analyzing data for trends
- regular ongoing data correction
- make suggestions for ways to improve data quality
- make suggestions for improving overall metadata quality and establishing best practices
- maintain skills through attendance of workshops and training courses

This position requires knowledge of the research information arena with a minimum of two years of full-time work experience in a library or scholarly publishing setting. The qualified individual will have strong communication skills and be comfortable interacting with both business and technical staff at member publishers. The qualified individual will have experience working with databases and XML and preferably have electronic production experience. Some knowledge of scripting languages (e.g. PERL, MS Macros) would be preferred.

Qualifications/requirements:

- Excellent organizational and written/verbal communication skills
- Bachelor's degree; MLS preferred
- Electronic publishing production or academic library experience a plus
- Minimum two years relevant work experience in the research information, library or scholarly publishing area, with strong recommendations
- Working knowledge of XML and database technology
- Excellent computer skills with advanced knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Outlook
- Some knowledge of PERL, MS Macros

Contact: Chuck Koscher ckoscher@crossref.org

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 4:12 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The latest member update is now available for viewing.

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 2:17 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The latest additions to the CrossRef members' list can be viewed by clicking here
http://www.crossref.org/01company/new_members.html

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 11:04 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The latest stats on CrossRef activity have been posted at
http://www.crossref.org/01company/crossref_indicators.html

CROSSREF INDICATORS (June 23, 2006)

Total no. participating publishers & societies 1,651
% of non-profit publishers 65%
Total no. participating libraries 1,064
No. journals covered 14,724
No. DOIs registered to date 21,456,190
No. DOIs deposited in previous month 810,257
No. DOIs retrieved (matched references) in previous month 3,615,472
DOI resolutions (end-user clicks) in previous month 10,800,000

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 11:02 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I'm happy to announce that we are starting to see links from references in books to books and book chapters. OUP's Oxford Scholarlship Online is now linking references to books and are picking up links to some World Bank books.

An example is in:
Swinnen, Johan F.M., and Scott Rozelle. From Marx and Mao to the Market - The Economics and Politics of Agricultural Transition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Oxford Scholarship Online. Oxford University Press. 23 June 106
<http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/0199288917.001.0001>

If you don't have access to the article - here is a screenshot:

Clicking the link takes you to:

Posted by Ed Pentz at 6:10 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The latest stats on CrossRef activity have been posted at
http://www.crossref.org/01company/crossref_indicators.html

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 4:51 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The latest additions to the CrossRef members' list can be viewed by clicking here
http://www.crossref.org/01company/new_members.html

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 4:50 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Lynnfield, MA June 1, 2006. CrossRef, the reference-linking service for scholarly and professional content, announced today that it had surpassed the half-million mark in the number of book title and chapter DOIs registered in its database. By virtue of being in CrossRef, these books and chapters are readily inter-linkable with the 20 million-plus other content items (mainly journal articles) publishers have registered. This enables the reader of online works to go directly from a journal article to a cited book chapter, or vice versa, just by clicking on a reference.

CrossRef has been adding books and major reference works (MRWs) to its cross-publisher linking network since 2004. Any scholarly or professional book can be registered at the title or chapter level, and registration of works with multiple chapters is steeply discounted. OUP’s Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB, at http://www.oxforddnb.com) is one example of an MRW containing DOIs assigned at the granular entry level; the ODNB alone contains over 65,000 DOIs. Other publishers actively registering books with CrossRef include Springer-Verlag, Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, the American Psychological Association, Humana Press, Karger, and John Wiley & Sons.

According to Craig Van Dyck, Vice President of STM Operations at Wiley, "CrossRef has a done great job of enhancing the online journal literature with reference linking and other important functionality. Now CrossRef is making significant progress with the scholarly book literature as well. Books are more complex and so will require commitment by CrossRef members to provide users with the linking functionality that they desire and that CrossRef can enable. Multiple Resolution, with DOIs pointing to a variety of relevant resources and linking options, is especially important for books."

CrossRef began offering Multiple Resolution – “CrossRef-MR” – services on a trial basis late last year. The majority of today’s DOIs employ single resolution, where a DOI is associated with one URL that typically points to online content at a publisher website. CrossRef-MR makes links more intelligent by providing a standardized way of associating a variety of resources with a DOI and making links to those resources available to many different services. CrossRef-MR thus enables the dissemination of enriched, publisher-controlled linking information, which can be pulled in and used by A&I databases, subscription agents, OpenURL resolvers, and other third parties. CrossRef envisions widespread use of CrossRef-MR as instances of content being hosted in multiple locations increase. Other applications include linking to supplemental or related information, and to purchase options and rights clearance services.

CrossRef is a not-for-profit membership association founded and directed by publishers, currently representing over 1600 publishers and societies. CrossRef operates a cross-publisher citation linking system, and is an official DOI (Digital Object Identifier) registration agency. More information is available at http://www.crossref.org. CONTACT: Amy Brand abrand@crossref.org 781-295-0072; Fax: 781-295-0077.

You may also view this press release on our website –

http://www.crossref.org/01company/pr/press060106.htm
or at
http://www.crossref.org/01company/09press_releases.html.

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 2:14 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Last week's CrossRef User Group meeting was a great success. Thank you to all for attending. Presentations are now available on the meeting agenda page (agenda link provided below).

http://www.crossref.org/10meetings/2006_usergroup_agenda.html

We would greatly appreciate any feedback, comments or thoughts you may have regarding the CrossRef User Group meeting. You may submit your feedback by contacting Anna Tolwinska at annat@crossref.org or by telephone at 1-781-295-0072 x.21. Thank you.

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 2:09 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The latest stats on CrossRef activity have been posted at
http://www.crossref.org/01company/crossref_indicators.html

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 5:05 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The latest additions to the CrossRef members' list can be viewed by clicking here
http://www.crossref.org/01company/new_members.html

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 5:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)