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2018 election slate

Lisa Hart Martin – 2018 August 17

In BoardMember BriefingGovernanceElectionCrossref LIVEAnnual Meeting

With Crossref developing and extending its services for members and other constituents at a rapid pace, it’s an exciting time to be on our board. We recieved 26 expressions of interest this year, so it seems our members are also excited about what they could help us achieve.

Using the Crossref REST API. Part 10 (with Kudos)

Christine Cormack Wood, David Sommer – 2018 August 13

In APIsIdentifiersInteroperabilityAPI Case Study

Continuing our blog series highlighting the uses of Crossref metadata, we talked to David Sommer, co-founder and Product Director at the research dissemination management service, Kudos. David tells us how Kudos is collaborating with Crossref, and how they use the REST API as part of our Metadata Plus service.

Peer review publications

Jennifer Lin – 2018 August 12

In Peer ReviewContent Types

Peer review publications—not peer-reviewed publications, but peer reviews as publications Our newest dedicated content type—peer review—has received a warm welcome from our members since rollout last November. We are pleased to formally integrate them into the scholarly record, giving the scholars who participated credit for their work, ensuring readers and systems dependably get from the reviews to the article (and vice versa), and making sure that links to these works persist over time.

Org ID: a recap and a hint of things to come

John Chodacki, Trisha Cruse, Laure Haak, Ed Pentz – 2018 August 02

In Organization IdentifierInfrastructureORCIDDataCiteCDLCollaborationIdentifiersCommunity

Cross-posted on the blogs of University of California (UC3), ORCID, and DataCite: https://doi.org/10.5438/67sj-4y05. Over the past couple of years, a group of organizations with a shared purpose—California Digital Library, Crossref, DataCite, and ORCID—invested our time and energy into launching the Org ID initiative, with the goal of defining requirements for an open, community-led organization identifier registry. The goal of our initiative has been to offer a transparent, accessible process that builds a better system for all of our communities.

3,2,1… it’s ‘lift-off’ for Participation Reports

Anna Tolwinska, Kirsty Meddings – 2018 August 01

In ParticipationMember BriefingMetadataBest Practice

Metadata is at the heart of all our services. With a growing range of members participating in our community—often compiling or depositing metadata on behalf of each other—the need to educate and express obligations and best practice has increased. In addition, we’ve seen more and more researchers and tools making use of our APIs to harvest, analyze and re-purpose the metadata our members register, so we’ve been very aware of the need to be more explicit about what this metadata enables, why, how, and for whom.

Crossref LIVE and local (to you)

Vanessa Fairhurst – 2018 July 18

In EducationAmbassadorsCommunityCrossref LIVEOutreachCollaboration

The last few months have been busy for the Crossref community outreach team. We’ve been out and about from Cape Town to Ulyanovsk—and many places in between—talking at ‘LIVE locals’ to members about all things metadata. Our LIVE locals are one-day events, held around the world—but local to you—that provide both deeper insight into Crossref, and information on our services and how to benefit from them. These events are always free to attend, and whether you are a long-established member, totally new, or not even a member at all, we welcome you all to join us.

Status, I am new

Isaac Farley, Ginny Hendricks, Geoffrey Bilder – 2018 July 02

In SupportMember ExperienceUser ExperienceStatus

Hi, I’m Isaac. I’m new here. What better way to get to know me than through a blog post? Well, maybe a cocktail party, but this will have to do. In addition to giving you some details about myself in this post, I’ll be introducing our status page, too.

Using the Crossref REST API. Part 9 (with Dimensions)

Christine Cormack Wood, Christian Herzog, Daniel Hook, Simon Porter – 2018 June 27

In APIsIdentifiersInteroperabilityAPI Case Study

Continuing our blog series highlighting the uses of Crossref metadata, we talked to the team behind new search and discovery tool Dimensions: Daniel Hook, Digital Science CEO; Christian Herzog, ÜberResearch CEO; and Simon Porter, Director of Innovation. They talk about the work they’re doing, the collaborative approach, and how Dimensions uses the Crossref REST API as part of our Metadata Plus service, to augment other data and their workflow.

Meet the members, Part 3 (with INASP)

Christine Cormack Wood, Sioux Cumming – 2018 June 20

In SponsorsMeet the MembersCommunity

Next in our Meet the members blog series is INASP, who isn’t a direct member, but acts as a Sponsor for hundreds of members. Sioux Cumming, Programme Specialist at INASP tells us a bit about the work they’re doing, how they use Crossref and what the future plans for INASP are.

Preprints growth rate ten times higher than journal articles

Jennifer Lin – 2018 May 31

In PreprintsMetadataContent RegistrationCitation

The Crossref graph of the research enterprise is growing at an impressive rate of 2.5 million records a month - scholarly communications of all stripes and sizes. Preprints are one of the fastest growing types of content. While preprints may not be new, the growth may well be: ~30% for the past 2 years (compared to article growth of 2-3% for the same period). We began supporting preprints in November 2016 at the behest of our members. When members register them, we ensure that: links to these publications persist over time; they are connected to the full history of the shared research results; and the citation record is clear and up-to-date.

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