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Kornelia Korzec
2022 June 22

Seeing your place in the Research Nexus

Having joined the Crossref team merely a week previously, the mid-year community update on June 14th was a fantastic opportunity to learn about the Research Nexus vision. We explored its building blocks and practical implementation steps within our reach, and within our imagination of the future. Read on (or watch the recording) for a whistlestop tour of everything – from what on Earth is Research Nexus, through to how it’s taking shape at Crossref, to how you are involved, and finally – to what concerns the community surrounding the vision and how we’re going to address that.

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Geoffrey Bilder
2022 June 10

Announcing our new Head of Strategic Initiatives: Dominika Tkaczyk

TL;DR A year ago, we announced that we were putting the “R” back in R&D. That was when Rachael Lammey joined the R&D team as the Head of Strategic Initiatives. And now, with Rachael assuming the role of Product Director, I’m delighted to announce that Dominika Tkaczyk has agreed to take over Rachael’s role as the Head of Strategic Initiatives. Of course, you might already know her. We will also immediately start recruiting for a new Principal R&D Developer to work with Esha and Dominika on the R&D team.

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Ginny Hendricks
2022 June 07

Rethinking staff travel, meetings, and events

As a distributed, global, and community-led organisation, sharing information and listening to our members both online and in person has always been integral to what we do. For many years Crossref has held both in-person and online meetings and events, which involved a fair amount of travel by our staff, board, and community. This changed drastically in March 2020, when we had to stop traveling and stop having in-person meetings and events.

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Lucy Ofiesh
2022 May 31

Annual call for board nominations

The Crossref Nominating Committee is inviting expressions of interest to join the Board of Directors of Crossref for the term starting in March 2023. 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 24th, 2022. About the our board elections The board is elected through the “one member, one vote” policy wherein every member organization of Crossref has a single vote to elect representatives to the Crossref board.

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Suffixes containing special characters

You might see (or inherit responsibility for) older DOIs which contain other characters, and require special treatment in a URL:

  • Encode hash or pound sign # as %23
  • Do not encode left bracket (or less than) < as &lt; and right bracket (or greater than) > as &gt; when resolving DOIs or retrieving metadata from our REST API to retrieve the metadata (see below)
  • Do not encode forward slash / when resolving DOIs or retrieving metadata from our REST API

For example, use the following when resolving DOIs with special characters:

https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1521-3951(199911)216:1<135::AID-PSSB135>3.0.CO;2-%23

instead of:

https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1521-3951(199911)216:1<135::AID-PSSB135>3.0.CO;2-#

And, to retrieve the metadata in our REST API, using those same DOI examples use:

https://api.crossref.org/works/10.1002/(SICI)1521-3951(199911)216:1%3C135::AID-PSSB135%3E3.0.CO;2-%23

instead of:

https://api.crossref.org/works/10.1002/(SICI)1521-3951(199911)216:1<135::AID-PSSB135>3.0.CO;2-#

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