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2023 September 12

News: Crossref and Retraction Watch

https://doi.org/10.13003/c23rw1d9 Crossref acquires Retraction Watch data and opens it for the scientific community Agreement to combine and publicly distribute data about tens of thousands of retracted research papers, and grow the service together 12th September 2023 —– The Center for Scientific Integrity, the organisation behind the Retraction Watch blog and database, and Crossref, the global infrastructure underpinning research communications, both not-for-profits, announced today that the Retraction Watch database has been acquired by Crossref and made a public resource.

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2023 September 07

Open Funder Registry to transition into Research Organization Registry (ROR)

Today, we are announcing a long-term plan to deprecate the Open Funder Registry. For some time, we have understood that there is significant overlap between the Funder Registry and the Research Organization Registry (ROR), and funders and publishers have been asking us whether they should use Funder IDs or ROR IDs to identify funders. It has therefore become clear that merging the two registries will make workflows more efficient and less confusing for all concerned.

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2023 September 06

Open funding metadata through Crossref; a workshop to discuss challenges and improving workflows

Ten years on from the launch of the Open Funder Registry (OFR, formerly FundRef), there is renewed interest in the potential of openly available funding metadata through Crossref. And with that: calls to improve the quality and completeness of that data. Currently, about 25% of Crossref records contain some kind of funding information. Over the years, this figure has grown steadily. A number of recent publications have shown, however, that there is considerable variation in the extent to which publishers deposit these data to Crossref.

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2023 July 06

Perspectives: My thoughts on starting my new role at Crossref

My name is Johanssen Obanda. I joined Crossref in February 2023 as a Community Engagement Manager to look after the Ambassadors program and help with other outreach activities. I work remotely from Kenya, where there is an increasing interest in improving the exposure of scholarship by Kenyan researchers and ultimately by the wider community of African researchers. In this blog, I’m sharing the experience and insights of my first 4 months in this role.

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Documentation

Browsable title list

The browsable title list provides an alphabetical list of journals, books, and conference proceedings for which Crossref has metadata, and is updated weekly. Browsing and searching may be limited by genre (all, journals, books, or conference proceedings) or search type (title, ISSN/ISBN, subject, or publisher). To search for a specific title, enclose the title in quotes, or search by ISSN.

Search results will include the following (when available):

Title (Journal/Book/Conf Proc): Title name. Journal titles are gray, book titles are green, and conference proceedings titles are purple.
Publisher: Publisher of the title as registered with us.
Print ISSN/ISBN: ISSN or ISBN (indicated by color) of the print version of the title.
Electronic ISSN/ISBN: ISSN or ISBN (indicated by color) of the electronic version of the title.
DOI: DOI assigned at the title level.

To review the results:

Click the icon to view the year(s), volume(s), and issue(s) deposited with Crossref for a title
Click the icon to view alternative title information, abbreviated titles (if any), other ISSNs or ISBNs, subjects covered, and any coverage notes for this content item. This information is obtained from a third party and may not match data deposited with Crossref
To request a missed conflict report for a title, click the icon at the far right of the row

You can also download a comma-separated journal coverage list (warning: large file).

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