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The latest additions to the CrossRef members' list can be viewed by clicking here
http://www.crossref.org/01company/new_members.html
NEW THIS WEEK (updated July 27, 2007)
Armenian Association of Endoscopic Surgery
Institute of Information Science
Practical Action Publishing
ScienceWise Publishing
The latest stats on CrossRef activity have been posted at
http://www.crossref.org/01company/crossref_indicators.html
CROSSREF INDICATORS (July 27, 2007)
Total no. participating publishers & societies 2,406
% of non-profit publishers 64%
Total no. participating libraries 1,254
No. journals covered 18,720
No. DOIs registered to date 28,132,422
No. DOIs deposited in previous month 469,495
No. DOIs retrieved (matched references) in previous month 4,078,939
DOI resolutions (end-user clicks) in previous month 13,628,017
09:00-09:30---Registration and new member coffee.
09:30-10:00---Corporate Annual Meeting, Board Election, and Strategy Overview, Anthony Durniak, Chair, CrossRef Board of Directors Linda Beebe, Treasurer, CrossRef Board of Directors and Ed Pentz, Executive Director.
10:00-10:20---System Update, New Services, Chuck Koscher, CrossRef Technology Director.
10:20-10:40---Strategic Initiatives Update, Geoff Bilder.
10:40-11:00---Coffee and tea break.
11:00-11:40---On Trust and the Internet. Keiron O'Hara, Senior Research Fellow, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton.
11:40-12:20---A New Online Community for Physicians. Alex Frost, Vice President for Research Initiatives, Sermo.
12:20-13:30---Lunch.
13:30-14:10---On Popular Misunderstanding of Science. Dr. Ben Goldacre, Medical Doctor who writes the Bad Science column in the Guardian.
14:10-14:50---On Project Prospect. Richard Kidd, Project Manager, Royal Society of Chemistry.
14:50-15:10---Coffee and tea break.
15:10-15:50---Faculty of 1000 Approach and the Comparative Measures of Impact. Pritpal Tamber, Managing Director, Faculty of 1000 Medicine.
15:50-16:30---Trust and Article Versioning. Edward Wates, UK Journal Production Director, Blackwell Publishing.
16:30-17:10---Conclusions and wrap up. Sally Morris, Editor-in-Chief, Learned Publishing, ALPSP. Audience questions and discussion.
17:10-18:10---Cocktail reception.
The latest additions to the CrossRef members' list can be viewed by clicking here
http://www.crossref.org/01company/new_members.html
The latest stats on CrossRef activity have been posted at
http://www.crossref.org/01company/crossref_indicators.html
CROSSREF INDICATORS (July 20, 2007)
Total no. participating publishers & societies 2,402
% of non-profit publishers 64%
Total no. participating libraries 1,251
No. journals covered 18,380
No. DOIs registered to date 28,037,869
No. DOIs deposited in previous month 469,495
No. DOIs retrieved (matched references) in previous month 4,078,939
DOI resolutions (end-user clicks) in previous month 13,628,017
CROSSREF 2007 ANNUAL MEMBER MEETING - "Trust, authority, and quality in academic publishing today."
Save the date!
Thursday, November 1st, 2007
The Royal College of Surgeons of England
35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields
London WC2A 3PE
Registration and hotel information now available.
Speakers will include:
Alex Frost - Vice President for Research Initiatives, Sermo
Dr. Ben Goldacre - Medical Doctor who writes the Bad Science column in the Guardian
Richard Kidd - Project Manager, Royal Society of Chemistry
Sally Morris - Editor-in-Chief, Learned Publishing, ALPSP
Kieron O'Hara - Senior Research Fellow, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
Pritpal Tamber - Managing Director, Faculty of 1000 Medicine
Edward Wates - UK Journal Production Director, Blackwell Publishing
CROSSREF 2007 ANNUAL MEMBER MEETING
Thursday, November 1st, 2007
The Royal College of Surgeons of England
35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields
London WC2A 3PE
Hotels in the area:
Kingsway Hall
The Montague on the Gardens
MEMBERS MUST MAKE OWN RESERVATIONS
**REMINDER: Note that the submission deadline is quickly approaching:
July 15, 2007**
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS: INNOVATIVE USES OF CROSSREF METADATA
CrossRef is now accepting proposals for the most original and promising use of CrossRef's article-level metadata as part of a scholarly research/authoring tool or related library service. Free access to participating publishers' metadata and DOIs will be granted to the researcher or librarian whose proposal is selected.
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: July 15, 2007
WHAT TO SUBMIT:
1) A short but thorough description of the service you would like to create using the CrossRef metadata,
including estimated implementation time
2) Links to software/services/protocols/standards that you may have implemented in the past
3) Your CV
TO WHOM:
Amy Brand, PhD, Director of Business & Product Development
email: abrand@crossref.org
By submitting a proposal, you agree to any publicity about the winning project that CrossRef may wish to pursue.
BACKGROUND ON CROSSREF METADATA AND WEB SERVICES
CrossRef is an independent membership association, founded and directed by publishers. CrossRef helps connect users to primary research content by enabling publishers to work collectively. Our citation-linking network today covers over 27 million articles and other content items from several hundred scholarly and professional publishers.
CrossRef Web Services, or CWS, offers an easy-to-use suite of tools for authorized partners to collect metadata on a cross-publisher basis to streamline their own crawling, indexing, and linking services. One way to access the 27 million+ metadata records now registered in CrossRef is via our OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interface. The CrossRef OAI-PMH repository interface serves as the central point for the distribution of metadata from participating publishers, utilizing a robust and widely adopted technology targeted at consumers of large quantities of metadata. Access to the CrossRef’s metadata repository is controlled by IP authentication and can be tailored to provide specific content from select publishers to each authorized recipient.
The metadata in CrossRef’s database consists of basic bibliographic information for each item, including author(s), title, journal name, ISSN, volume, issue, page, and DOI-URL pair. Here are links to some sample CWS metadata: , .
Our data repository is extensive but highly variable in quality from publisher to publisher. We have recently begun to take measures to ensure higher quality metadata. Any suggestions you may have regarding how best to achieve a higher level of data quality and consistency, as part of your proposal or otherwise, would be greatly appreciated. Different but similarly basic metadata is collected for other types of content. In addition, many publishers now also deposit references as part of their metadata.
CONTACT: Please email abrand@crossref.org with any questions you may have about CrossRef Web Services or this RFP.
The latest additions to the CrossRef members' list can be viewed by clicking here
http://www.crossref.org/01company/new_members.html
NEW THIS WEEK (updated July 13, 2007)
Aerospace Medical Association
Core Medical Publishing
Inter-Research Science Center
The latest stats on CrossRef activity have been posted at
http://www.crossref.org/01company/crossref_indicators.html
CROSSREF INDICATORS (July 13, 2007)
Total no. participating publishers & societies 2,388
% of non-profit publishers 64%
Total no. participating libraries 1,243
No. journals covered 18,299
No. DOIs registered to date 27,833,367
No. DOIs deposited in previous month 469,495
No. DOIs retrieved (matched references) in previous month 4,078,939
DOI resolutions (end-user clicks) in previous month 13,628,017