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Lucy Ofiesh
2020 May 21

Calling all prospective board members

The Crossref Nominating Committee is inviting expressions of interest to join the Board of Directors of Crossref for the term starting in 2021. The committee will gather responses from those interested and create the slate of candidates that our membership will vote on in an election in September. Expressions of interest will be due Friday, June 19, 2020. The role of the board at Crossref is to provide strategic and financial oversight of the organization, as well as guidance to the Executive Director and the staff leadership team, with the key responsibilities being:

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Laura J Wilkinson
2020 April 29

Come for a swim in our new pool of Education materials

After 20 years in operation, and as our system matures from experimental to foundational infrastructure, itā€™s time to review our documentation. Having a solid core of education materials about the why and the how of Crossref is essential in making participation possible, easy, and equitable. As our system has evolved, our membership has grown and diversified, and so have our tools - both for depositing metadata with Crossref, and for retrieving and making use of it.

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Jennifer Kemp
2020 April 29

Crossing the Rubicon - The case for making chapters visible

To help better support the discovery, sale and analysis of books, Jennifer Kemp from Crossref and Mike Taylor from Digital Science, present seven reasons why publishers should collect chapter-level metadata. Book publishers should have been in the best possible position to take advantage of the movement of scholarly publishing to the internet. After all, they have behind them an extraordinary legacy of creating and distributing data about books: the metadata that supports discovery, sales and analysis.

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Paul Davis
2020 April 27

Memoirs of a DOI detective...itā€™s error-mentary dear members

Hello, Iā€™m Paul Davis and Iā€™ve been part of the Crossref support team since May 2017. In that time Iā€™ve become more adept as a DOI detective, helping our members work out whodunnit when it comes to submission errors.

If you have ever received one of our error messages after you have submitted metadata to us, you may know that some are helpful and others are, well, difficult to decode. I’m here to help you to become your own DOI detective.

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Request for feedback on grant identifier metadata

Patricia Feeney

Patricia Feeney – 2019 February 07

In IdentifiersGrantsResearch FundersPersistence

We first announced plans to investigate identifiers for grants in 2017 and are almost ready to violate the first rule of grant identifiers which is ā€œthey probably should not be called grant identifiersā€. Research support extends beyond monetary grants and awards, but our end goal is to make grants easy to cite, track, and identify, and ā€˜Grant IDā€™ resonates in a way other terms do not. The truth is in the metadata, and we intend to collect (and our funder friends are prepared to provide) information about a number of funding types.

What can often change, but always stays the same?

Isaac Farley

Isaac Farley – 2019 January 24

In Content RegistrationTitle TransfersMembershipMetadataIdentifiers

Hello. Isaac here again to talk about what you can tell just by looking at the prefix of a DOI. Also, as we get a lot of title transfers at this time of year, I thought Iā€™d clarify the difference between a title transfer and a prefix transfer, and the impact of each.

Improved processes, and more via Metadata Manager

Shayn Smulyan

Shayn Smulyan – 2019 January 17

In Metadata ManagerContent RegistrationCitationsIdentifiers

Hi, Crossref blog-readers. Iā€™m Shayn, from Crossrefā€™s support team. Iā€™ve been fielding member questions about how to effectively deposit metadata and register content (among other things) for the past three years. In this post, Iā€™ll take you through some of the improvements that Metadata Manager provides to those who currently use the Web Deposit form.

Resolutions 2019: Journal Title Transfers = Metadata Manager

Isaac Farley

Isaac Farley – 2019 January 03

In Content RegistrationTitle TransfersMembershipMetadataIdentifiers

When you thought about your resolutions for 2019, Crossref probably didnā€™t cross your mindā€”but, maybe it should have…

Metadata Manager: Members, represent!

Jennifer Lin

Jennifer Lin – 2018 October 15

In MetadataContent RegistrationCitationsIdentifiers

Over 100 Million unique scholarly works are distributed into systems across the research enterprise 24/7 via our APIs at a rate of around 633 Million queries a month. Crossref is broadcasting descriptions of these works (metadata) to all corners of the digital universe.

Using the Crossref REST API. Part 11 (with MDPI/Scilit)

Christine Cormack Wood

Christine Cormack Wood, Martyn Rittman, Bastien Latard – 2018 September 18

In APISIdentifiersInteroperabilityApi Case Study

Continuing our blog series highlighting the uses of Crossref metadata, we talked to Martyn Rittman and Bastien Latard who tell us about themselves, MDPI and Scilit, and how they use Crossref metadata.

Event Data is production ready

Christine Buske

Christine Buske – 2018 September 12

In CitationCollaborationDataEvent DataIdentifiers

Weā€™ve been working on Event Data for some time now, and in the spirit of openness, much of that story has already been shared with the community. In fact, when I recently joined as Crossrefā€™s Product Manager for Event Data, I jumped onto an already fast moving trainā€”headed for a bright horizon.

Presenting PIDapalooza 2019

Christine Cormack Wood

Christine Cormack Wood – 2018 August 28

In PidapaloozaPersistenceIdentifiersCollaborationCommunityMeetings

PIDapalooza, the open festival of persistent identifiers is back and itā€™s better than ever. Mark your calendar for Dublin, Ireland, January 23-24, 2019 and send us your session ideas by September 21.

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

Christine Cormack Wood

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.

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

John Chodacki

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.
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2020 April 27

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