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Getting Started
Getting started
Organizations participate in CrossRef by joining under one of these three categories:
- Member: a publisher or content owner who will be depositing DOIs with metadata
- Library: a no-fee account for querying the CrossRef system primarily used to support a local linking service
- Affiliate: an organization (commercial or non-profit) which will be querying the CrossRef system, using CrossRef bulk metadata or acting as an agent for member publishers.
To
see who is currently participating in CrossRef please see:
Qualifications for membership
Publishers International Linking Association, Inc.
(PILA) is a not-for-profit membership organization. PILA runs the CrossRef
service, enabling links to and from online scholarly content. According
to the PILA bylaws, membership is open to any organization engaged in
the business of publishing original scholarly materials.
The following conditions must also be met:
- The organization applying
for membership must publish primary scholarly content that is available
online in full text.
- The organization must submit
metadata, as defined by PILA, for substantially all its content that is
online in full text.
- In an organization with
multiple divisions, the largest legal entity is considered the PILA member
and all the divisions are subject to the terms of the PILA Membership
Agreement.
- To ensure fairness in reviewing
candidates for membership, prospective members must supply information
about the content they intend to deposit.
Only publishers who pay an annual membership fee and own the content represented by CrossRef's metadata are considered members who are entitled to vote for CrossRef's board of directors. Publishers may participate in CrossRef without actually being a member themselves if they are represented by a Sponsoring Member.
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