A growing number of our members are organizations who work with or publish on behalf of groups of smaller organizations that want to register content and may fit a specific criteria. If you are one of these entities, you might be considering how you can also offer Crossref services to the organizations you work with.
Some smaller organizations like to join as a member via a Sponsor so they have someone representing them for Crossref services, billing, and can take advantage of local or segment-specific support.
We have a couple of options that might help - we have two categories of organizations that work with us on behalf of organizations they represent – Sponsoring Members and Sponsoring Organizations. Both types of sponsor work directly with us in order to provide administrative, billing, technical and if applicable, language support to their sponsored members. In turn, we’re keen to support our Sponsors too, by running LIVE events and other outreach activities with them and listening to their feedback on what they need from us.
If you’re interested in this option, you can read on to find out how being a Sponsoring Organization and a Sponsoring Member differ and which definition you fall under. Not sure? Get in touch and we’ll work with you to figure out the best fit.
All sponsors:
You publish your own content as well as content on behalf of other organizations (we call those organizations Sponsored Organizations). You sign one agreement with us covering all publishing activities. Each sponsored organization must have its own distinct DOI prefix but they do not need to sign anything directly with us and we only hold minimal information about them - you are responsible for all passing on all communications and services. These sponsored organizations are not eligible to vote in our board elections but may participate in community working groups.
You do not publish content yourselves but you provide publishing services for organizations that publish (we call these Sponsored Members). You have agreements with us and with each sponsored member, you sign a renewal agreement with us each year, and submit an annual report of your outreach and training activities. You are not eligible to vote in our board elections but the members you represent may.
| Asia Sponsoring Organizations | Country |
|---|---|
| Airiti, Inc. | Taiwan |
| Applied and Natural Science Foundation | India |
| Association for Scientific Computing Electrical and Engineering (ASCEE) | Indonesia |
| Author Cafe Private Ltd. | India |
| CleverMind Solutions Private Limited | India |
| EArticle | South Korea |
| Editorum LLC. | Russia |
| Guhmok Publishing Co. | South Korea |
| Indonesian Digital Entertainment Arts and Sciencs (IDEAS) Lab | Indonesia |
| Inforang | South Korea |
| Informatics Publishing | India |
| Journals Club & Co. | India |
| Korea Scholar | South Korea |
| Korean Studies Information (KSI) | South Korea |
| Kyobobook Center | South Korea |
| M2 Community | South Korea |
| MRI Publication Pvt. Ltd. (OPC) | India |
| National Research Foundation of Korea | South Korea |
| NP NEICON | Russia |
| Nurimedia Co., Ltd. | South Korea |
| Relawan Jurnal Indonesia | Indonesia |
| Ubitech Solutions Pvt Ltd | India |
| Wanfang Data (ISTIC) | China |
| Middle East Sponsoring Organizations | Country |
|---|---|
| Avicenna FZ LLC | UAE |
| BAYT Bilimsel Arastirmalar Basin Yayin Ltd. | Turkey |
| Han Yazilim Bilisim Hizmetleri | Turkey |
| Online Bilgi | Turkey |
| Tubitak Ulakbim DergiPark | Turkey |
| Americas Sponsoring Organizations | Country |
|---|---|
| ACSESS - Alliance of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Science Societies | USA |
| Accesso Academico | Brazil |
| Asociacion Uruguaya de Revistas Academicas (AURA) | Uruguay |
| Associacao Brasileira de Editores Cientificos do Brasil (ABEC Brasil) | Brazil |
| bepress | USA |
| Infotegra S.A.S. | Colombia |
| Journals and Authors SAS | Colombia |
| Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) | Canada |
| Open Journal Systems Chile | Chile |
| Public Knowledge Project (PKP) | Canada |
| Europe Sponsoring Organizations | Country |
|---|---|
| Cambridge International Academics | United Kingdom |
| INASP | United Kingdom |
| LIBCOM Piotr Karwasinski | Poland |
| Lund University Library | Sweden |
| National and University Library in Zagreb | Croatia |
| Open Academia | Sweden |
| Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) | The Netherlands |
| Open Science in Ukraine | Ukraine |
| Prepress Projects, Ltd. | United Kingdom |
| URAN | Ukraine |
| Africa Sponsoring Members | Country |
|---|---|
| African Journals Online (AJOL) | South Africa |
| Americas Sponsoring Members | Country |
|---|---|
| AIP Publishing | USA |
| Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | USA |
| Biteca | Columbia |
| California Digital Library (EZID) | USA |
| Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City | USA |
| Galoa | Brazil |
| Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | USA |
| Johns Hopkins University Press | USA |
| Notion Wave, Inc | Canada |
| Project Euclid | USA |
| SciELO Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica Y Tecnologica (CONICYT) | Chile |
| Middle East Sponsoring Members | Country |
|---|---|
| Knowledge E | UAE |
| Asia Sponsoring Members | Country |
|---|---|
| ECO-Vector LLC | Russia |
| Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) | Japan |
| Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors (KAMJE) | South Korea |
| Scientific World /SWorld/, Ltd. | Russia |
| Europe Sponsoring Members | Country |
|---|---|
| Association of Lithuanian Serials | Lithuania |
| Books on Demand | Germany |
| Co. Ltd. Ukrinformnauka | Ukraine |
| Library and Information Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences | Hungary |
| MedicHub Media | Romania |
| Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) | France |
| Quotus Publishing | Germany |
| Structurae | Germany |
| TK Meganom LLC | Ukraine |
| The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies | Finland |
| The Publishing house “Internauka” | Ukraine |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | United Kingdom |
If you are interested in becoming a Sponsoring Member please apply or contact our membership team. If you think you may like to be a Sponsoring Organization (because you don’t publish anything yourself) please complete the specific sponsoring organization application form.
If you are interested in joining Crossref via one of these organizations, you can find out more about some of them, and contact them directly to find out if they are suitable for you.
For more information please contact our membership team.