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A short film marking 25 years since Crossref was incorporated on 19 January 2000. The video traces a quarter-century of open infrastructure for scholarly communications — from the founding members and the first DOIs registered, to today’s network of 25,000+ members and 180 million records.

Crossref’s 2018–19 Annual Report, published as ‘The Fact File’ — a figures-first summary of membership growth, content registration, retrieval activity, governance, and finances across the year. Issued with DOI 10.13003/y8ygwm5.

A retrospective booklet marking ten years since Crossref was incorporated on 19 January 2000. Originally published in 2010 in English and Japanese editions, the booklet documents the founding decisions, the early DOI deposits, and the growth of the membership through the first decade of cross-publisher reference linking.