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Geoffrey Bilder
2021 October 06

Outage of October 6, 2021

On October 6 at ~14:00 UTC, our data centre outside of Boston, MA went down. This affected most of our network services- even ones not hosted in the data centre. The problem was that both of our primary and backup network connections went down at the same time. We’re not sure why yet. We are consulting with our network provider. It took us 2 hours to get our systems back online.

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Lucy Ofiesh
2021 September 28

2021 Board Election

We are pleased to share the 2021 board election slate. Crossref’s Nominating Committee received over 60 submissions from members worldwide to fill five open board seats. It was a fantastic group of applicants and showed the strength of our membership community. There are five seats open for election (three small, two large), and the Nominating Committee presents the following slate. The 2021 slate Candidate organizations, in alphabetical order, for the Small category (three seats available):

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Fabienne Michaud
2021 September 20

Similarity Check news: iThenticate v2.0 ready for launch

Crossref Similarity Check news: iThenticate v2.0 ready for launch Last year, we announced the upcoming launch of a new version of iThenticate, the product from Turnitin that powers Crossref Similarity Check. We know some of you have been waiting a long time for this upgrade and we are very happy to share with you that we are now ready to release it. We will be rolling out this new version in stages, so not everyone will be able to upgrade to the new version immediately.

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Isaac Farley
2021 September 08

Lesson learned, the hard way: Let’s not do that again!

TL;DR We missed an error that led to resource resolution URLs of some 500,000+ records to be incorrectly updated. We have reverted the incorrect resolution URLs affected by this problem. And, we’re putting in place checks and changes in our processes to ensure this does not happen again. How we got here Our technical support team was contacted in late June by Wiley about updating resolution URLs for their content. It’s a common request of our technical support team, one meant to make the URL update process more efficient, but this was a particularly large request.

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Membership & Fees committee

The Membership & Fees Committee (M & F committee) was established in 2001 and plays an important role in our governance. Made up of 12-14 organizations of both board members and regular members, the group makes recommendations to the board about fees and policies for all of our services.

They regularly review existing fees to discuss if any changes are needed. They also review new services while they are being developed, to assess if fees should be charged and if so, what those fees should be. In addition, the board can also ask the committee to address specific issues about policies and services.

In 2019 the committee undertook a regular fee review which involved a few specific cases being recommended to the board:

  1. Removing the Crossmark fee
  2. Removing the fees for versions and translations (registered by the same member)
  3. Introducing a new USD 5.00 fee per Sponsored Member
  4. Updating a set of principles for guiding fee-setting

M&F committee members

Crossref facilitator: Amanda Bartell

Committee member Representative Country Size (items) Org type
ACM Scott Delman* USA 470,000 Society
Clarivate Analytics Nandita Quaderi* USA 9500 Company
eLife Melissa Harrison* UK 22,500 Publisher
Elsevier Rose L’Huillier* Netherlands 17,595,000 Company
Frontiers Marie Souliere Switzerland 6500 Publisher
Liverpool University Press Clare Hooper UK 33200 Publisher
MDPI Christian Gutknecht Switzerland 500,000 Publisher
NEICON ISP Maxim Mitrofanov Russia – Publishing Tool
Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia Mariana da Silveira Machado Pereira Brazil 2100 Society
Swiss National Science Foundation Andreas Kyriacou Switzerland 50 Funder
Wiley Todd Toler (Chair)* USA 9,000,000 Company
Wits University Press Andrew Joseph South Africa 1000 Publisher

(*) indicates Crossref board member

About committee participation

The M&F Committee meets via one-hour conference calls about six times a year, although this can vary depending on what issues the committee is considering. Often proposals are developed by staff and then reviewed and discussed by the committee – so there is reading to do in preparation for the calls.

This is very important work and it’s essential the committee is broadly representative of Crossref’s diverse membership of over 15,000 organizations in 140 countries. Appointments are for one year and participants can sometimes serve multiple terms.

Please contact the outreach team with any questions.

Page owner: Ginny Hendricks   |   Last updated 2021-April-09