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The New Scientist's study of citation behavior reveals 85% of respondents feel under-citing scientific work is a significant problem. When asked if their own work had been ignored in citations, 72% said yes. The New Scientist's news blog entry didn't reveal how many of them feel that they themselves under-cite their colleagues work, but one imagines the practice goes both ways.

In an interview about the results, Geoffrey Bilder acknowledges the problem and suggests that simplifying citiation formats to include just basic metadata and an article identifier like the CrossRef DOI or even PubMed ID could make room for more comprehensive citation lists.

For more, see the complete article.

Posted by Carol Anne Meyer at 04:16 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Updated June 22, 2009

Genetics and Molecular Research
Mulberry Technologies, Inc.

Last update June 15, 2009

Steklov Mathematical Institute

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 12:41 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Updated June 22, 2009

Total no. participating publishers & societies 2,809
% of non-profit publishers 57%
Total no. participating libraries 1,491
No. journals covered 20,352
No. DOIs registered to date 37,189,729
No. DOIs deposited in previous month 380,419
No. DOIs retrieved (matched references) in previous month 13,082,811
DOI resolutions (end-user clicks) in previous month 26,782,044

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 12:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

What does it mean to be "indexed?" Content from 27,000 journal titles, conference proceedings, and books are now available in the CrossCheck database. A CrossCheck user who submits a manuscript for duplicate detection will be comparing the submission to 20 million items from other scholarly publishers as well as to content from the open web.

See the CrossCheck web page for more details.

Posted by Carol Anne Meyer at 08:12 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Chuck Koscher, CrossRef's Director of Technology, begins his term as Chair of the National Information Standards Organization. Here's an exerpt from NISO's press release:

Chuck Koscher, Director of Technology at CrossRef, who was elected last year and has served as Vice Chair during the current term, will become Chair of NISO for the 2009-10 term.
“NISO has a great deal of opportunity before us,” said Koscher, the incoming Chair.

“With recent successes on the Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) and Shared Electronic Resources Understanding (SERU), new work on single sign-on authentication and Cost of Resource Exchange (CORE), as well as potential projects on XML structures, physical delivery, and e-resource management, NISO is at the forefront of technology issues facing the information community. Helping to lead the organization in this exciting time will be a great honor.”

Please see the NISO Press release for more information.

Posted by Carol Anne Meyer at 06:13 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Updated June 15, 2009

Steklov Mathematical Institute

Last update June 8, 2009

Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University
The Norwegian Association of Masters of Science in Business/Sivilokonomene
Norwegian Nurses Organisation

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 01:39 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Updated June 15, 2009

Total no. participating publishers & societies 2,806
% of non-profit publishers 57%
Total no. participating libraries 1,491
No. journals covered 20,279
No. DOIs registered to date 37,071,229
No. DOIs deposited in previous month 380,419
No. DOIs retrieved (matched references) in previous month 13,082,811
DOI resolutions (end-user clicks) in previous month 26,782,044

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 01:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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CROSSREF INDICATORS (June 08, 2009)

Total no. participating publishers & societies 2,796
% of non-profit publishers 57%
Total no. participating libraries 1,491
No. journals covered 20,256
No. DOIs registered to date 37,071,229
No. DOIs deposited in previous month 380,419
No. DOIs retrieved (matched references) in previous month 13,082,811
DOI resolutions (end-user clicks) in previous month 26,782,044

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 04:24 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Updated June 8, 2009

The Norwegian Association of Masters of Science in Business/Sivilokonomene

Last update June 1, 2009

The Council on Employee Responsibilities and Rights (CERR)
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)
The Institute for Leadership and Global Education (ILGE)
Rhinology
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc.

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

Join us for an "Introduction to CrossCheck" webinar on Tuesday June 16th, and learn more about the plagiarism screening service that now has 52 participating publishers. This free session comprises a 20 minute presentation and plenty of time for questions. Register here for the June demo. If you can't make June 16th we will be running the session again on July 28th.

We are also running two iThenticate demos in June, on 10th and 24th, for those who would like to know more about the document checking system that powers the CrossCheck service. These free hour-long sessions give an excellent overview of the reports and functionality available to editorial staff and are suitable for anyone who is using or considering using CrossCheck. Sign up here.

Posted by Kirsty Meddings at 04:48 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

We cordially invite members and friends of CrossRef to help us celebrate our first ten years.

Registration for the 10th Anniversary Celebration Dinner on Monday November 9th and the Annual Meeting on Tuesday, November 10th is now available. Please register by completing this form.

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 03:20 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

For an "everything you always wanted to know, but were afraid to ask" technical introduction to CrossRef please join us for the "How to" CrossRef Basics Webinar on Tuesday June 23, 2009 at 11:00 AM EST.
New members are encouraged to join.

Register for the webinar.

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 04:12 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Updated June 1, 2009

The Council on Employee Responsibilities and Rights (CERR)
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)
The Institute for Leadership and Global Education (ILGE)
Rhinology

Last update May 26, 2009

Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences
King Abdulaziz University Scientific Publishing Centre
Mercator - Revista de Geografia da UFC
Open Publishing Association
Prufrock Press, Inc.
Royal Society of South Australia
Taiwan Association for Aerosol Research
Universite des Antilles et de La Guyane (UAG)

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 05:37 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Updated June 01, 2009

Total no. participating publishers & societies 2,794
% of non-profit publishers 57%
Total no. participating libraries 1,489
No. journals covered 20,121
No. DOIs registered to date 36,953,337
No. DOIs deposited in previous month 380,287
No. DOIs retrieved (matched references) in previous month 12,945,467
DOI resolutions (end-user clicks) in previous month n/a

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 05:31 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)