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October 27, 2008

CrossRef is pleased to announce two significant staff appointments.

Kirsty Meddings started with CrossRef on October 27th as Product Manager. In this role Kirsty will be leading CrossCheck, CrossRef's recently launched plagiarism detection service for scholarly publishers, in addition acting as product manager for CrossRef's other services. Kirsty joins CrossRef from Publishing Technologies (formerly Ingenta) where she was most recently Product Development Manager having originally started with CatchWord in 1998.

Carol Meyer will be joining CrossRef as Business Development and Marketing Manager on November 10th. In this role Carol will have overall responsibility for marketing and business development including member communications and developing new relationships. Carol joins CrossRef from Aries Systems where she is Product Manager for Preprint Manager. Prior to this Carol was an independent consultant working with many prestigious scholarly publishing clients and she also had positions with Silverplatter and ACM. Carol is also an active participant in the Society for Scholarly Publishers currently serving on the Board of Directors and the Publications and Research Committee.

We are very happy to have Kirsty and Carol join the CrossRef team.

October 1, 2008

New CrossRef Members

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

(updated September 23, 2008)

New Members:
Collegium Basilea
Fundacao Universidade Estadual de Maringa
IS, GUC (The Journal of Industrial Relations and Human Resources)
Alaska Sea Grant
Thomson Reuters (Scientific)
Trans Tech Publications
Canada-China Clinical Medicine Study Association (CCCMSA)
SciVee, Inc.
IGI Global
BioInfoBank Institute
Cardiofront, LLC
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine

CrossRef Indicators

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

CROSSREF INDICATORS (October 01, 2008)

Total no. participating publishers & societies 2,636
% of non-profit publishers 64%
Total no. participating libraries 1,424
No. journals covered 21,077
No. DOIs registered to date 33,516,681
No. DOIs deposited in previous month 269,400
No. DOIs retrieved (matched references) in previous month 13,471,980
DOI resolutions (end-user clicks) in previous month n/a