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CrossRef Executive Director Ed Pentz will participate in a panel at next week's American Association of Publishers Professional and Scholarly Division's (AAP/PSP) Annual Meeting The panel, entitled "The Services Report: What’s Available to Publishers Now and What the Future Holds" will cover innovations in collaboration and partnering, business models, technology, and content licensing. The panel is from 9-10:15 am at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel in Washington DC. Ed and I will both be attending the conference, so please get in touch if you would like to meet.

Hope to see you there.

Posted by Carol Anne Meyer at 12:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Updated January 25, 2010

Dialogue and Discourse
Healthcare Bulletin
International Association of Chinese Professionals in Global Positioning Systems
Journal of Forensic Economics
Psychomusicology: Music, Mind and Brain
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
Turkish Association of Nervous and Mental Health
Turkish National Committee for Air Pollution Research (TUNCAP)
Weston Medical Publishing
XML Archive

Last updated January 11, 2010

Cevre Koruma ve Arastirma Vakfi

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 4:24 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Updated January 25, 2010

Total no. participating publishers & societies 2,940
% of non-profit publishers 57%
Total no. participating libraries 1,537
No. journals covered 21,218
No. DOIs registered to date 39,869,470
No. DOIs deposited in previous month 457,548
No. DOIs retrieved (matched references) in previous month 12,713,307
DOI resolutions (end-user clicks) in previous month 31,463,732

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 4:23 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Updated January 19, 2010

Total no. participating publishers & societies 2,940
% of non-profit publishers 57%
Total no. participating libraries 1,537
No. journals covered 21,201
No. DOIs registered to date 39,804,269
No. DOIs deposited in previous month 457,548
No. DOIs retrieved (matched references) in previous month 12,713,307
DOI resolutions (end-user clicks) in previous month 31,463,732

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 3:16 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Updated December 21, 2009

New Members:
Applied Science and Analysis (ASA), Inc.
Bloomsbury Academic
E-Learning Network of Australia
Pier Professional
Rambam Health Care Campus
Revista Brasileira De Ciencias Agrarias
Stilus Optimus
University of South Florida Libraries

Last updated December 14, 2009

Embrapa Florestas
Excellus Health Plan, Inc.

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 3:49 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Updated January 12, 2010

Total no. participating publishers & societies 2,943
% of non-profit publishers 57%
Total no. participating libraries 1,537
No. journals covered 21,128
No. DOIs registered to date 39,725,201
No. DOIs deposited in previous month 457,548
No. DOIs retrieved (matched references) in previous month 12,713,307
DOI resolutions (end-user clicks) in previous month 31,463,732

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 3:45 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Martin Fenner's first post of 2010 on his Gobbledygook blog provides insight on how the new Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) collaboration works, including the complex process of developing an identifier for scientists. Learn more.

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 12:43 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Join us tomorrow at 11am EST/4pm GMT for the first webinar of 2010 on CrossCheck, our joint initiative with iParadigms to offer plagiarism screening services to scholarly publishers.

This one hour complementary session gives an overview of the CrossCheck service and how it can both protect and add value to your publications, and includes time for questions and discussion. Sign up here - we look forward to talking with you.

Posted by Kirsty Meddings at 11:50 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I often see varying figures for the number of scholarly journals and the number of articles published per year (some references below). In this context the CrossRef 2009 statistics are interesting. CrossRef covers scholarly journals pretty extensively now - books are growing (~100,000 in the system so far) but CrossRef scholarly book coverage isn't as extensive.

At the end of 2009 there were 21,150 journal titles in CrossRef - this includes older titles that may no longer be publishing or may have changed names. CrossRef doesn't track whether journals are peer reviewed or not just that they are generally "scholarly".

The journal article deposit figures are:

Total number of CrossRef journal DOIs: 34,911,463 (from 1665 to the present)

Deposits of Current (publication year of 2007-2009) journal article DOIs - 1,808,993

A CrossRef DOI for a journal article can be applied to any type of article: research, review, book review, letter - basically anything in a journal that's published online as a citeable unit.

Some general CrossRef stats are available.

Another important statistic is that there were over 300,000,000 (300 million) CrossRef DOI resolutions i.e. user clicks on CrossRef DOIs.

References (it's shocking there are no CrossRef DOIs for these)

Björk, B., Roos, A. and Lauri, M. (2009) Scientific journal publishing: yearly volume and
open access availability, Information Research, 14(1) http://InformationR.net/ir/14-1/paper391.html

Mabe, M. (2003). The growth and number of journals, Serials 16(2) 191-197
http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=f195g8ak0eu21muh

Tenopir, Carol (2004). Online Databases—Online Scholarly Journals: How Many? The Library Journal http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA374956.html

‘The STM Report: An overview of scientific and scholarly journal publishing’ Press release - http://www.stm-assoc.org/2009_10_13_Press_Release_The_STM_Report.pdf

Posted by Ed Pentz at 9:29 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

For the latest CrossRef news, updates, and announcements - read our CrossRef Quarterly newsletter. The latest issue is now available. You may also browse through past issues in our archive. Or add your email to the mailing list and receive one every quarter.

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 12:54 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Updated January 04, 2010

Total no. participating publishers & societies 2,943
% of non-profit publishers 57%
Total no. participating libraries 1,537
No. journals covered 21,128
No. DOIs registered to date 39,606,976
No. DOIs deposited in previous month 457,548
No. DOIs retrieved (matched references) in previous month 12,713,307
DOI resolutions (end-user clicks) in previous month n/a

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 11:40 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)