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Vanessa Fairhurst
2021 February 11

Discuss all things metadata in our new community forum

TL;DR: We have a Community Forum (yay!), you can come and join it here: community.crossref.org. Community is fundamental to us at Crossref, we wouldnā€™t be where we are or achieve the great things we do without the involvement of you, our diverse and engaged members and users. Crossref was founded as a collaboration of publishers with the shared goal of making links between research outputs easier, building a foundational infrastructure making research easier to find, cite, link, assess, and re-use.

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Martyn Rittman
2021 February 01

Event Data: A Plan of Action

Event Data uncovers links between Crossref-registered DOIs and diverse places where they are mentioned across the internet. Whereas a citation links one research article to another, events are a way to create links to locations such as news articles, data sets, Wikipedia entries, and social media mentions. We’ve collected events for several years and make them openly available via an API for anyone to access, as well as creating open logs of how we found each event.

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Jennifer Kemp
2021 January 19

New public data file: 120+ million metadata records

2020 wasn’t all bad. In April of last year, we released our first public data file. Though Crossref metadata is always openly availableā€“ā€“and our board recently cemented this by voting to adopt the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI)ā€“ā€“we’ve decided to release an updated file. This will provide a more efficient way to get such a large volume of records. The file (JSON records, 102.6GB) is now available, with thanks once again to Academic Torrents.

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Crossref
2020 December 16

A tribute to our Kirsty

Our colleague and friend, Kirsty Meddings, passed away peacefully on 10th December at home with her family, after a sudden and aggressive cancer. She was a huge part of Crossref, our culture, and our lives for the last twelve years. Kirsty Meddings is a name that almost everyone in scholarly publishing knows; she was part of a generation of Oxford women in publishing technology who have progressed through the industry, adapted to its changes, spotted new opportunities, and supported each other throughout.

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Quarterly deposit invoices: avoiding surprises

Isaac Farley

Isaac Farley – 2019 April 10

In Content RegistrationInvoicesMembershipMetadataIdentifiers

Whenever we send out our quarterly deposit invoices, we receive queries from members who have registered a lot of backlist content, but have been charged at the current yearā€™s rate. As the invoices for the first quarter of 2019 have recently hit your inboxes, I thought Iā€™d provide a timely reminder about this in case you spot this problem on your invoice.

Before, during, and after - a journey through title transfers

Isaac Farley

Isaac Farley – 2019 February 25

In Content RegistrationTitle TransfersMembershipMetadataIdentifiers

In January, I wrote about how weā€™ve simplified the journal title transfer process using our new Metadata Manager tool. For those disposing publishers looking for an easy, do-it-yourself option for transferring ownership of your journal, I suggest you review that blog post. But, whether you choose to process the transfer yourself via Metadata Manager or need some help from Paul, Shayn, or myself, thereā€™s more to a transfer than just the click of a transfer button or the submission of an email to support@crossref.org, as Iā€™m sure those of you who have been through a title transfer can attest.

Work through your PID problems on the PID Forum

Rachael Lammey

Helena Cousijn, Rachael Lammey, Alice Meadows – 2019 February 21

In IdentifiersInfrastructureCollaborationCommunity

As self-confessed PID nerds, weā€™re big fans of a persistent identifier. However, weā€™re also conscious that the uptake and use of PIDs isnā€™t a done deal, and there are things that challenge how broadly these are adopted by the community. At PIDapalooza (an annual festival of PIDs) in January, ORCID, DataCite and Crossref ran an interactive session to chat about the cool things that PIDs allow us to do, whatā€™s working well and, just as importantly, what isnā€™t, so that we can find ways to improve and approaches that work.

ROR announces the first Org ID prototype

Maria Gould

Maria Gould, Ginny Hendricks – 2019 February 10

In IdentifiersOrganization IdentifierInfrastructureCollaborationCommunity

What has hundreds of heads, 91,000 affiliations, and roars like a lion? If you guessed the Research Organization Registry community, you’d be absolutely right! Last month was a big and busy one for the ROR project team: we released a working API and search interface for the registry, we held our first ROR community meeting, and we showcased the initial prototypes at PIDapalooza in Dublin. We’re energized by the positive reception and response we’ve received and we wanted to take a moment to share information with the community.

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.

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