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September 30, 2010

CLOCKSS Executive Director Position Opening

The CLOCKSS archive [www.clockss.org] is searching for an Executive Director. CLOCKSS is a global nonprofit, community-governed archive that preserves digital scholarly materials for the very long term through a geo-physical and geo-political distributed network of archive nodes. The Executive Director runs the organization and reports to a Board made up of major scholarly publishers and university libraries from around the world. The Executive Director will grow the organization as a major global scholarly archive and a valuable collaborative community of scholarly publishers and academic libraries. This is a wonderful opportunity for an energetic leader who wants to make a visible impact in the scholarly community. See http://www.clockss.org/clockss/ExecutiveDirector for a job description and application instructions.

September 27, 2010

New CrossRef Members

Updated September 27, 2010

Dustri-Verlag
MEDICRIT

Last Update September 20, 2010

AITO - Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets
American Society of International Law
Biomedical Engineering Society of the R.O.C.
Norwegian Association of Optometry
Oregon Historical Society
Society of Economic Geologists

CrossRef Indicators

Last update September 27, 2010

Total no. participating publishers & societies 3210
% of non-profit publishers 57%
Total no. participating libraries 1,628
No. journals covered 22,820
No. DOIs registered to date 43,519,130
No. DOIs deposited in previous month 503,586
No. DOIs retrieved (matched references) in previous month 13,807,945
DOI resolutions (end-user clicks) in previous month 38,064,373

September 23, 2010

Attending the Frankfurt Book Fair this October?

Please join CrossRef for a Hot Spot Presentation to discuss CrossMark, a service that will allow publishers to mark their Versions of Record and communicate updates and other important information about the status of scholarly content.

What: CrossMark Sneak Peek (Hot Spot Presentation)
When: Thursday, October 7, 2010 at 5:15pm
Where: Hall 4.2 P 451 (Information Management Hot Spot Stage)

Book a meeting with Kirsty or Geoff

Kirsty Meddings, CrossRef's Product Manager and Geoffrey Bilder, CrossRef's Director of Strategic Initiatives will be attending the Frankfurt Book Fair this year.

To book a meeting with either Kirsty or Geoff please contact Susan Collins at scollins@crossref.org.

Visit us at Hall 4.2 Booth N 437

We hope to see you there!

September 22, 2010

Register for CrossRef Basics Webinar for Affiliates

Please join us for the upcoming CrossRef Basics webinar for affiliates.

Thursday, October 14, 2010
Online at 11:00 EDT

The webinar will provide an introduction to CrossRef and a brief outline of how CrossRef works. We will discuss how non-publisher organizations can take advantage of publisher metadata and DOIs through CrossRef. Participants will have the opportunity to have their questions answered. New affiliates and prospective affliiates are especially encouraged to register.

Please invite any colleagues that may be interested in this event.


Please register today.

Register for CrossRef Workshops and Annual Meeting

CrossRef's 2010 Annual Meeting is coming up soon, if you haven't yet registered, we invite you to do so soon as space is limited.

2010 Annual Meeting
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
One Great George Street in London, UK
Draft Agenda
Register

A wonderful group of speakers agreed to present at our meeting this year. The group includes: Tracey Brown of Sense About Science, Toby Green of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and Mackenzie Smith of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries.

Please register soon as space is limited.


NEW: CrossRef Workshops (formerly Technical Meeting)
Monday, November 15th, 2010
9:30am - 5:00pm
One Great George Street in London, UK
Draft Agenda
Register

We are trying something new this fall. The CrossRef Workshops on Monday, November 15th will be a daylong event with presentations on various topics of interest to our membership.

Please tells us which workshops you would like to attend by completing the short survey below. You may also suggest other topics you might be interested in.

Take the survey

Detailed meeting information including hotel information is now available.

We hope to see you there.

September 20, 2010

New CrossRef Members

Updated September 20, 2010

AITO - Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets
American Society of International Law
Biomedical Engineering Society of the R.O.C.
Norwegian Association of Optometry
Oregon Historical Society
Society of Economic Geologists

Last updated September 15, 2010

Association for Career and Technical Education Research
Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine
Dentaquest
Indiana Magazine of History
Institute of Advanced Scientific Research
Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico
International Association for Sharing Knowledge and Sustainability
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
IP Publishing, Ltd.
Latin America Journals Online
Malaysian Palm Oil Council
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Library
The Press at California State University, Fresno
Radiologia.hu Kft
Sophia Publishing Group, Inc.
Universidad de Chile
UPF Editora
Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia
Zeppelini Editorial e Comunicacao

CrossRef Indicators

Updated September 20, 2010

Total no. participating publishers & societies 3206
% of non-profit publishers 57%
Total no. participating libraries 1,625
No. journals covered 22,787
No. DOIs registered to date 43,442,185
No. DOIs deposited in previous month 503,586
No. DOIs retrieved (matched references) in previous month 13,807,945
DOI resolutions (end-user clicks) in previous month 38,064,373

September 16, 2010

New CrossRef Members

Updated September 15, 2010

Association for Career and Technical Education Research
Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine
Dentaquest
Indiana Magazine of History
Institute of Advanced Scientific Research
Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico
International Association for Sharing Knowledge and Sustainability
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
IP Publishing, Ltd.
Latin America Journals Online
Malaysian Palm Oil Council
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Library
The Press at California State University, Fresno
Radiologia.hu Kft
Sophia Publishing Group, Inc.
Universidad de Chile
UPF Editora
Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia
Zeppelini Editorial e Comunicacao


Last update August 23, 2010

Bulletin of Marine Science
Center for Law and Policy
International Journal of Case Reports and Images
Korea Basic Science Institute
Michigan Historical Review
Ortadogu Reklam Tanitim Yayincilik Turizm Egitim Insaat Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S.
The University of Hong Kong Libraries

CrossRef Indicators

Updated September 15, 2010

Total no. participating publishers & societies 3198
% of non-profit publishers 57%
Total no. participating libraries 1,622
No. journals covered 22,605
No. DOIs registered to date 42,939,385
No. DOIs deposited in previous month 503,586
No. DOIs retrieved (matched references) in previous month 13,807,945
DOI resolutions (end-user clicks) in previous month 38,064,373