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Ginny Hendricks
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 ā€”– 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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Amanda French
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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Hans de Jonge
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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Johanssen Obanda
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, Iā€™m sharing the experience and insights of my first 4 months in this role.

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Introduction to books and chapters

Why register books and chapters

Registration of books and chapters maximizes reference linking between books and other content types including journals and conference proceedings, and ensures that we collect and distribute persistent identifiers and authoritative metadata for online books. There are seven benefits for our members to register book- and chapter-level metadata:

  1. increased discoverability
  2. increased usage
  3. matching author expectations
  4. author exposure
  5. usage and citations reporting
  6. supporting authors with funding compliance and reporting
  7. understanding the hot topics within your books

You can read about each of these in more detail on our blog.

Obligations and limitations

  1. Follow the books metadata best practices.
  2. You can register books and chapters using our web deposit form or via direct deposit of XML.

Fees

In addition to annual membership dues, all records attract a one-time registration fee. There are volume discounts available for registration of book chapters and reference entries for a single title. Read about the fees.

History

Books have been supported since 2003. The Books Interest Group provides guidance and advice for developing the books metadata we collect.

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