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Crossref
2020 June 30

New faces at Crossref

Please help us welcome new faces at Crossref! Martyn, Sara, Laura, and Mark joined us very recently and we are happy they’re with us. Both Martyn and Sara have joined the Product team and this has given us the chance to reorganize the team into the following groups: content registration, scholarly stewardship, scholarly impact, metadata retrieval, and UX/UI leadership. Laura joined the Finance and Operations team to help make the billing process simple for our members. Mark joins the Technology team and one of his projects will be improving the Event Data service.

It is exciting to already see the impact of your contributions and look forward to what’s to come!

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Vanessa Fairhurst
2020 June 29

Community Outreach in 2020

2020 hasn’t been quite what any of us had imagined. The pandemic has meant big adjustments in terms of working; challenges for parents balancing childcare and professional lives; anxieties and tensions we never had before; the strain of potentially being away from co-workers, friends, and family for a prolonged period of time. Many have suffered job losses and around the world, many have sadly lost their lives to the virus.

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Lucy Ofiesh
2020 May 21

Calling all prospective board members

English version –– Información en español The Crossref Nominating Committee is inviting expressions of interest to join the Board of Directors of Crossref for the term starting in 2021. 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 19, 2020. The role of the board at Crossref is to provide strategic and financial oversight of the organization, as well as guidance to the Executive Director and the staff leadership team, with the key responsibilities being:

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Laura J Wilkinson
2020 April 29

Come for a swim in our new pool of Education materials

After 20 years in operation, and as our system matures from experimental to foundational infrastructure, it’s time to review our documentation. Having a solid core of education materials about the why and the how of Crossref is essential in making participation possible, easy, and equitable. As our system has evolved, our membership has grown and diversified, and so have our tools - both for depositing metadata with Crossref, and for retrieving and making use of it.

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Am I eligible for membership?

If you publish scholarly content online or represent organizations who publish, you are eligible to become a member. You also must be able to commit to our member terms.

How do I get a DOI for my paper?

We don’t supply DOIs ad-hoc. If the publisher of your paper is a member, they’ll register your article on your behalf.

When (and how) do I pay for my DOIs?

Your Content Registration fees will be invoiced quarterly. Invoices can be paid through our payment portal. In addition to credit card payments we also accept wires and checks. Questions about logging in or billing in general can be emailed to our finance team.

How do I find a DOI for a particular article?

To look up a single DOI use our Metadata Search interface. If you want to look up metadata records or DOIs in volume, read more about Metadata Retrieval.

How do I handle title transfers?

If you’ve acquired a title from another member, you need to let us know about the transfer and provide confirmation from the disposing publisher. We’ll accept transfers posted to the Enhanced Transfer Alerting Service (ETAS). If you don’t participate in Transfer, your confirmation may be a forwarded email from the disposing publisher to the acquiring publisher acknowledging the transfer. See our title and record ownership transfer documentation for more details.

I’ve found a problem within your metadata - how do I get you to fix it?

While we aren’t able to correct the metadata provided by our members, report any metadata issues to our support staff and we’ll contact the responsible member and ask them to make corrections.

How do I update my contact information?

Please contact our membership specialist with any changes to your contact information.

Last Updated: 2017 December 20 by Patricia Feeney