CrossRef Blog

Elsevier recently launched its Publishing Ethics Resource Kit (PERK) - http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/editorshome.editors/Introduction - which mentions the CrossCheck pilot and the important work being done by COPE - the Committee on Publishing Ethics (http://www.publicationethics.org.uk/about).

I'm glad that Elsevier has highlighted its participation in the CrossCheck Pilot which we hope to move into production and role out to all CrossRef members starting in June 2008. The PERK information shows that a technology tool for detecting overlapping text between documents is only one small (but important) part of the larger issue of ethics in publishing. Publishers need to look at a broad range of policies and procedures and need to explain to authors and readers how they go about publishing high-quality, original content - scholarly publishers haven't always been very good at this in the past but publishers do add a lot of value.

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CrossRef announced on March 12th that Mekentosj (http://mekentosj.com), creator of Papers, had signed on as a CrossRef affiliate in order to integrate DOIs and CrossRef metadata into its services. Papers is an award-winning application for researchers that improves their Mac-based workflow for searching, downloading, and managing PDF articles.

Papers already uses the DOI as a standard way to identify and lookup scientific articles. With the new partnership, Papers will add a tighter integration with Crossref's OpenURL service to facilitate the discovery of both new and existing scientific publications. As a result of the CrossRef integration, Papers can recognize the DOI in PDF files and on web-pages, and automatically retrieve the available bibliographic information, including title, authors and journal names, from Crossref's metadata database. With one click, this information is then added to the researcher's personal library, making scientific articles more accessible and manageable.

Papers' creator, Alexander Griekspoor, reports: “In future releases we plan on expanding the integration of the OpenURL and various other Crossref services -- including the new blogger tool -- to give researchers full access to the rich metadata that is available and add innovative ways to take full advantage of this information.”

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The Research Information Network (RIN - http://www.rin.ac.uk/) worked with funders in the UK, Wiley-Blackwell and CrossRef to come up with some very reasonable guidelines on the acknowledgement of research funders in scholarly journal articles. The full document is available on the RIN website - http://www.rin.ac.uk/funders-acknowledgement).

If all the parties work together there will be a virtuous circle - funders instruct grantees on how to cite the funder and grant numbers in publications, authors follow these instructions when submitting papers to journals and publishers pick up the standard funder names and grant numbers, tag them and list the information in a separate section. Publishers add value and the funders can assess the results of funding.

A number of publishers already include separate "Funding" sections in papers and the RIN guidance includes a number of examples for publishers on how to tag grant funder names and grant numbers in XML and how this information can be displayed in articles.

A number of OUP journals include a "Funding" section: http://hmg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/17/6/806#SEC6

Some PLOS journals have the same - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000004

We hope that the NLM and others in the US will pick up on this work and apply it. In addition, the NLM DTD needs to be updated to better capture this information.

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LYNNFIELD MA, March 7, 2008. -- CrossRef, the publisher linking service, announced today that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Sermo (http://www.sermo.com), the largest online physician community. Through this new partnership, Sermo will make use of the DOI® (Digital Object Identifier) to link real-time physician discussions about current research to the source medical journal articles.

DOIs enhance Sermo's "Discuss on Sermo" initiative, which facilitates post publication discussion of thousands of medical research articles. Through this program, publishers can:

. Capture a "collective letter to the editor" with input from hundreds or thousands of readers.
. Promote medical journal content to the most active online audience of US physicians.
. Leverage collective discussions of medical content to augment and inform original research.

"Our relationship with Sermo promotes the DOI as the linking standard for medical and other professional literature," says Amy Brand, CrossRef's Director of Business and Product Development. "CrossRef is also invested in making its members aware of the Discuss on Sermo initiative, which links high-quality online discussions with their medical content in a very easy way."

"Using DOIs, Sermo can effectively tie its physicians' discussions of current research with the appropriate source journal articles," said Alex Frost, Sermo Vice President for Research. "As we expand the Discuss on Sermo program, we hope to work closely with CrossRef to help enable more advances in effectively linking research content from diverse sources."

About CrossRef:
CrossRef is a non-profit membership association founded and directed by publishers. Its mission is to enable easy identification and use of trustworthy electronic content by promoting the cooperative development and application of a sustainable infrastructure. CrossRef operates a cross-publisher citation linking system, and is the official DOI name registration agency for scholarly and professional content. More information is available at http://www.crossref.org.

About Sermo:
Launched in September 2006, Sermo is already the largest online physician community in the US, with over 50,000 physician members. On Sermo, physicians exchange knowledge with each other and gain potentially life saving insights directly from colleagues. Sermo harnesses the power of collective wisdom and enables physicians to discuss new clinical findings, report unusual events, and work together to improve patient care. Through its unique business model, Sermo is free to physicians and has no advertising or promotion. Learn more at http://www.sermo.com.

CONTACT: Amy Brand abrand@crossref.org, 781-295-0072; Fax: 781-295-0077

DOI® and DOI.ORG® are registered trademarks and the DOI> logo is a trademark of The International DOI Foundation

CrossRef® and CrossRef.org® are registered trademarks and the CrossRef logo is a trademark of PILA (Publishers International Linking Association

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 1:18 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The latest member update is now available for viewing.

Member access required.

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The February 2008 issue of the CrossRef Newsletter has been posted to our website: http://www.crossref.org/01company/10newsletter.html

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

New CrossRef Members (updated February 29, 2008)

CIG Media Group
Comparative Cognition Society
Encyclopedia of Life
Justice Research and Statistics Association
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies
Telos Press

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