Blog

Ginny Hendricks

Ginny Hendricks is Chief Program Officer at Crossref, leading community, membership, and program/product functions, working with the board and the research community to ensure responsible and sustainable oversight of the Crossref ecosystem. Before Crossref, she ran ‘Ardent’ for a decade, consulting within scholarly communications on awareness and growth strategies, product launches, and building global communities. She instigated Metadata 20/20, co-founded Scholarly Social and FORCE11’s Upstream, and has contributed to several open infrastructure initiatives, including ROR as well as POSI. She serves as Treasurer of the DOI Foundation, represents the international community on the Board of African Journals Online (AJOL), and works to encourage more effective open metadata practices as part of the Steering Committee of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information. Ginny is a stickler for good manners, a lover of words, and when she’s not gardening, is still looking for a good shabu-shabu spot in London.

Read more about Ginny Hendricks on their team page.

The logo has landed

The rebranding of Crossref was top priority when I joined in May in a new role called “Director of Member & Community Outreach”. Since then I’ve been working to understand the array of services, attributes, and audiences we have developed; to answer the questions “What do we do, for whom, and why?”

As Crossref prepares to celebrate turning fifteen at our annual meeting next week, I am thrilled to present our new brand identity with key messages and logo. And along with “thrilled” you may also detect “nervous excitement”.

Taxonomies Meet-up at #FBM15

The Taxonomies Interest Group would like to invite Crossref members to an informal drop-in at the Frankfurt Book Fair:

4-5pm on Wednesday 14th October at the TEMIS booth H76

Crossref to Auto-Update ORCID Records

In the next few weeks, authors with an ORCID iD will be able to have Crossref automatically push information about their published work to their ORCID record. It’s something that ORCID users have been asking for and we’re pleased to be the first to develop the integration. 230 publishers already include ORCID iDs in their metadata deposits with us, and currently there are 248,000 DOIs that include ORCID iDs.